Easy Pain au Chocolat
In a mad rush to pick out a book to read the other day on my way out of town, I grabbed a book named "How to Bake a Perfect Life" by Barbara O'Neal. I actually enjoyed the book, the plot is fairly predictable but it has enough twists and turns that it kept it interesting enough.
The main character in the book owns a bakery, so reading the book made me want to bake! And...there were RECIPES in the book!! Oh yes. Actual recipes. I decided to start easy, very very easy. I decided to try making Pain au Chocolat.
I kept is super simple and used frozen puff pastry and they did turn out yummy!
Easy Pain au Chocolat
Ingredients:
- 2 sheets frozen puff pastry
- 1 large egg beaten with 1 tsp water
- approx 6-12oz bittersweet chocolate chips/chunks
- sugar for dusting
Directions:
- Thaw pastry sheets according to directions on box
- Prepare two cookie sheets by lining with parchment or spraying with cooking spray
- Cut each pastry sheet into 12 squares
- Brush pastry with egg glaze
- Place several chocolate chips/chunks on each pastry rectangle
- Roll pastries up tightly and place seam down on the cookie sheets
- Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 4+ hours (overnight is ok)
- Refrigerate remaining egg glaze
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- Brush tops of pastries with egg glaze
- Dust lightly with sugar
- Bake for approx 15 minutes
- Let cool and enjoy!
They really are so simple to make, and aren't they just so pretty too?!
Pastry and chocolate...you just can't go wrong! Yum!
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