Praline Puff Pastry Nests

I was so happy that this recipe wasn't too sweet. 🍫🥧

I really wanted to make this one but I’m allergic to all nuts so thinking about alternatives

PUL Team - Aug. 11, 2024, 7:15 p.m.

Hey Hannah, you could try substituting the hazelnuts with seeds like sunflower or pumpkin seeds for a nut-free twist. You might need to adjust the sweetness or add a bit of vanilla extract to enhance the flavour if you give seeds a try 🤗

Made this for Easter, everyone loved them!

Delicious! I just made a batch for Easter morning, and I had one for taste purposes 😋 I would recommend swirling the pot with sugar water until it dissolves from the get go, because I ruined my first batch of caramel by just waiting for it to bubble, which it did, but created a thick crust which then started to burn. If you stick to the recipe it will come out perfect!

PUL Team - April 1, 2024, 6:24 p.m.

So glad you enjoyed the recipe, Martunia, and thanks for the tip! 🙂

This was the first ever PUL recipe that I completely (but COMPLETELY!) failed at! 🤣
There's no place to buy blanched hazelnuts here, so I tried to blanch them myself, but they all broke in halves and kept their skin when I tried to peel them.
My sugar water never turned golden and hence it became sugar when I added the cold hazelnuts. Then my food processor ran hot for 20 minutes and the hazelnut-sugar mix still did not turn into a paste. So I smeared tons of melted chocolate over it in the hope it would create a paste to spread onto the dough. Didn't work, it was pure crumble. And I got so impatient that I didn't wait for it to cool down, and adding the warm mixture onto the dough made the dough go all soft and sticky and impossible to shape. I now have 7 very ugly piles of dough/hazelnut-powder/chocolate-crumble that look like... well, you can guess. Total fail. I think I'll eat the remaining chocolate eggs like I bought them...
Probably not the recipe's fault, I just totally underestimated both time and complicatedness of the recipe...

PUL Team - March 30, 2024, 1:09 a.m.

Oh goodness - that sounds like quite an adventure, Gesa, we're so sorry to hear it didn't work out. Removing the skin on the hazelnuts helps it become smoother and creamier. Roasting the hazelnuts for a touch longer until the skins darken can make them peel more easily. Rubbing them in a kitchen towel to help remove more of the skin. In any case, baking can require some precision and we're sad this recipe wasn't successful. A powerful food processor also helps a lot to turn the nuts into a paste/nut butter texture. We hope one of our other baking recipes will be more successful for you! 😊

Where did you get the chocolate eggs from? Or name of the brand?
The nests look so delicious 🤤

PUL Team - March 28, 2024, 6:03 a.m.

Hey Oliver, we get our vegan chocolate eggs from a local (organic) grocery store here called Ekoplaza! 🙂

Omg, this looks divine, I don’t even want minimize sugar in this recipe xd
Sadia making Easter recipes, that’s is so cute:) asking for more 😃