Easy & Delicious Cheese Straws
The other day I was looking for something easy to whip up to add to our Sunday night barbecue. I usually make garlic knots but didn’t have any frozen bread dough. I didn’t want to make a grocery run so I hunted around the kitchen to see what I could come up with. Well, I found a box of frozen puff pastry in the freezer and some shredded cheeses. That’s when I decided I’d make Cheese Straws!
These Cheese Straws are super simple to make and require just a few ingredients. Best of all they are too yummy!
For our Sunday night barbecue I served Cheese Straws instead of dinner rolls, the family loved them. But you can have them as a snack too! Because they’re made with puff pastry they’re light, buttery, and flaky!
Here’s how you make them!
Cheese Straws
makes 16 pieces
Pre-Heat over to 425°
Ingredients:
1 Pkg. Frozen Puff Pastry sheets Thawed- each package comes with 2 sheets
1/2 Cup Melted Butter
1 Tbs. Garlic Powder
1/2 Cup Shredded Cheddar Cheese
1/3 Cup Shredded Parmesan Cheese
1 Egg Beaten
Directions:
Melt butter and stir in Garlic Powder
Toss together cheeses
Unfold one sheet of puff pastry and brush with butter mixture
Evenly distribute 1/4 of cheese mixture on half of the pastry sheet
Fold pastry sheet in half over the cheese and brush with butter
Evenly distribute another 1/4 of cheese mixture on the top – lightly press cheese into the pastry dough to keep it in place
Using a sharp knife or pizza cutter cut the pastry sheet into 8 strips
Take the first strip in twist it a couple of times
Place twisted strip on parchment covered baking sheet
Repeat with the rest of the strips
Repeat this whole process with the other sheet of puff pastry
Brush beaten egg over all the strips°
Place twists in the PRE-HEATED oven and bake for about 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.
Serve hot or cold.
- 1 Package Frozen Puff Pastry Sheets - 2 sheets per package Thawed
- 1/2 Cup Butter Melted
- 1 Tbs. Garlic Powder
- 1/2 Cup Shredded Cheddar Cheese
- 1/3 Cup Shredded Parmesan Cheese
- 1 Egg Beaten
- Pre- Heat oven to 425 degrees
- Melt butter and stir in Garlic Powder
- Toss together cheeses
- Unfold one sheet of puff pastry and brush with butter mixture
- Evenly distribute 1/4 of cheese mixture on half of the pastry sheet
- Fold pastry sheet in half over the cheese and brush with butter
- Evenly distribute another 1/4 of cheese mixture on the top - lightly press cheese into the pastry dough to keep it in place
- Using a sharp knife or pizza cutter cut the pastry sheet into 8 strips
- Take the first strip and twist it a couple of times
- Place twisted strip on parchment covered baking sheet
- Repeat with the rest of the strips
- Repeat this whole process with the other sheet of puff pastry
- Brush beaten egg over all the strips°
- Place twists in the PRE-HEATED oven and bake for about 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.
- Serve hot or cold.
