Puff pastry carrots with salmon cream

Puff pastry carrots

You need these ingredients for the puff pastry carrots with salmon cream:

Puff pastry – to form carrots

Cream cheese – plain or with any flavor

Smoked salmon

Dill

Horseradish

Lemon peel

Pepper

Parsley or carrot greens

If you don’t want to use fish, you can replace the smoked salmon with diced cooked ham or diced peppers. Bake puff pastry carrots for Easter in 3 steps
Bake hollow carrots from puff pastry.
Prepare the salmon cream with smoked salmon and cream cheese.
Fill the puff pastry carrots and decorate them.
The detailed step-by-step instructions for my puff pastry carrot recipe with pictures can be found a little further down.
For preparing the puff pastry carrots, I recommend that you buy them. You can also use them for other recipes. Alternatively, you can also make a cone out of aluminum foil.

Bake puff pastry carrots for Easter

The salmon cream with smoked salmon
also tastes wonderful as a spread on bread
you can prepare it well in advance and store it in the fridge
see continuation on the next page

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Ingredients for 8 pieces

1 roll of puff pastry

250 g cream cheese

100 g smoked salmon

1 tbsp dill (chopped)

1 tbsp horseradish

½ tsp grated lemon peel

Pepper
For spreading:

2 tbsp milk

1 egg

1 tbsp sesame
For decoration:

Parsley
Bake puff pastry carrots
Preheat the oven to 220°C top/bottom heat.
Roll out the puff pastry and cut it lengthways into 8 strips.
Puff pastry carrot strips

Grease the Schiller curl molds with a little butter and wrap the puff pastry around the molds.
Shape the puff pastry carrots
Line a baking tray with baking paper and spread the Schiller curls on it. Whisk the egg with the milk and brush the puff pastry with it. Sprinkle the dough pieces with sesame seeds and bake them in the oven for about 18 minutes until golden brown.
Puff pastry carrot baking pan

Then let them cool and take the molds out of the puff pastry.
Puff pastry carrot blank

Prepare salmon cream with smoked salmon
Chop the salmon into small pieces.
Put it in a blender with the cream cheese, lemon peel, dill, horseradish and pepper and mix everything into a cream. Salmon cream with smoked salmon

Filling puff pastry carrots
Fill the salmon cream into a piping bag and fill the puff pastry croissants with it.
Stuffed puff pastry carrots with salmon cream
Put some parsley or carrot greens into the filling. Your puff pastry carrots are ready.
Puff pastry carrots parsley