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:
- Turn the oven on to 180°C. Line two or three trays with baking paper.
- Roll out the puff pastry on a flat surface, leave it on its packaging sheet. Cut it into two long halves.
- 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.
- Then cut the pastry into thin strips (about the width of your thumb).
- 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!
- Brush them with a little milk or egg yolk.
- Ask an adult to put the trays into the oven. Bake for 12-15 minutes until they turn nice and golden.
- 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!