Cookie Butter Puff Pastry Christmas Trees
These Puff Pastry Christmas Trees filled with cookie butter are adorable holiday desserts on a stick! They only require 4 ingredients and simple prep. Perfect for cookie swaps, cookies for Santa, teacher gifts and are fun to make with kids.
Servings: 10 servings
Calories: 1tree
Equipment
- Star cookie cutter set optional
Ingredients
- 1 17.3 ounce package of two frozen puff pastry sheets thawed
- ⅔ cup cookie butter such as Biscoff
- 2 tablespoons salted butter melted
- 3 tablespoons cinnamon sugar*
Instructions
- Thaw frozen puff pastry according to package directions. I prefer the overnight in the fridge method.Keep the other sheet in the refrigerator until ready to use.
- Preheat oven to 375F degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Working with one sheet at a time, roll it out onto a clean, dry counter into a 15x10-inch rectangle. If you carefully lift the sheet as you roll it to keep it from sticking, you probably won’t need to lightly dust flour on the surface.
- Cut the rectangle in half lengthwise. Spread ⅓ cup cookie butter over one of the rectangle halves, all the way to the edges. Stack the other rectangle on top of the cookie butter-covered half, making sure the edges match up.
- Using a sharp knife or pizza cutter, cut 5 (1-inch) wide x 10-inch long strips.
- Start folding the strip accordion-style by making the bottom of the trees (wider end) first. The first fold will be about 3 inches wide. Continue folding the strip back and forth stacking it on top of the previous fold, reducing the size of the fold until you get to the top. The folded strip will resemble a tree.
- Push a wooden skewer through the center of the tree, starting at the bottom up to the top of the tree. Leave about ¾ to 1 inch at the top of the skewer.
- Loosen the folds of the tree to allow the puff pastry room to expand while baking.
- Place each tree on a baking sheet in the refrigerator after making each one so the dough doesn’t get too warm.
- Repeat the procedure with the remaining pastry sheet and cookie butter.
- Brush the puff pastry trees with melted butter and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar
- Bake the Christmas tree cookies for 15 to 18 minutes or until very lightly browned on the edges. Let them cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes. Remove to cool completely on a wire rack.
Notes
- Make your own cinnamon sugar. Combine 3 tablespoons granulated sugar and ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon sugar.
- Use alternate fillings like peanut butter, Nutella, or sunflower butter.
- Decorate with candies like marshmallows or gummy stars, or add holiday sprinkles.
