I love breadsticks. It’s very easy to make sticks like them using ready-rolled puff pastry, which you can buy in supermarkets. You can do straws, sticks or twirls –  here I’ll show you how to make twirls:

1. Turn the oven on to 180°C. Line two or three trays with baking paper.
2. Roll out the puff pastry on a flat surface, leave it on its packaging sheet. Cut it into two long halves.
3. Spread your favourite sauce all over it. For example: pesto, pizza sauce, red pepper pate, black olive spread – or you can just brush it with a beaten egg and sprinkle cheese, sesame seeds, poppy seeds or other things like that over it.
4. Then cut the pastry into thin strips (about the width of your thumb).
5. Hold each end of a strip with your hands, then twist them in opposite directions and you’ll get a twirl! Do this to all strips and put them on the baking trays – but not too near to each other because they’ll double in size when cooking and get stuck together!
6. Brush them with a little milk or egg yolk.
7. Ask an adult to put the trays into the oven. Bake for 12-15 minutes until they turn nice and golden.
8. Ask an adult to take the trays out of the oven and transfer the twirls onto a plate or wire rack to cool.

Tips

You can make sweet twirls too:for example spread chocolate cream, thick custard, jam, nutella on the pastry. I mixed 1 spoonful of sugar with 1 spoonful of cocoa powder and a little almond milk.
• These twirls are really nice at parties and picnics! Also as snacks after school.
• Keep them in a closed tin and you can enjoy them for days.
• The pastry gets warm, soft and sticky quickly so prepare everything you’ll need before you take the pastry out of the fridge and try to make the twirls fast!