5-Ingredient Carrot-Shaped Pastries: the Recipe for a Quick and Easy Easter Appetizer

5-Ingredient carrot-shaped pastries are delicious and original appetizers, for a lunch with family or friends, to enrich a buffet or even to brighten up the Easter tables. These are fake baby carrots, made with a crunchy shell of puff pastry and filled with a filling made of ricotta cheese, Parmesan cheese and chopped walnuts.

The process for preparing them is very simple: just cut off the puff pastry into strips and roll them around the aluminum cones to create the shape of a carrot. Then, to give the pastry the classic orange color of carrots, brush them with an egg wash. Finally, cook in the oven and fill with the savory filling, simulating the carrot leaf with a leaf of lettuce. For the filling, we opted for a mousse based on fresh ricotta cheese, chopped walnuts and grated Parmesan cheese.

Tips and Variations

– If you want to accentuate the intensity of the orange color of the puff pastries even more, you can mix a pinch of paprika powder to the egg wash. If you really want an intense orange color, you can add a pinch of gel food coloring.

– For the typical orange color of the carrot, instead of paprika powder you can use turmeric and some red food coloring.

– If you don't want to use lettuce for the decoration, you can use dill or parsley.

– You can customize the filling, according to your imagination: ricotta cheese and ham cubes, or cheese, chopped carrots and smoked salmon, or even cream cheese, tuna and capers.

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How to Store 5-Ingredient Carrot-Shaped Pastries

We recommend consuming the carrot-shaped pastries at the moment. If there are any leftovers, however, you can store them in the fridge and consume them within 24 hours, tightly closed in an airtight container: keep in mind that the pastry will get softer.

Find out how to prepare the 5-Ingredient Carrot-Shaped Pastries by following our step-by-step recipe and advice.

How to Make 5-Ingredient Carrot-Shaped Pastries

Cut a rectangle of puff pastry into 8 strips.

Wrap the strips of puff pastry around cone models.

Coat each cone with an egg wash, place them on top of a baking tray lined with parchment paper and bake for 15 minutes at 374°F (190°C).

In the meantime, inside of a glass bowl, pour the ricotta cheese.

Add the grated Parmesan cheese.

Then add the chopped walnuts and the salt.

Mix the filling together until the mixture is homogeneous.

Delicately remove the carrot-shaped pastries from the molds once they have cooled down and, with a spoon, fill them with the mixture and decorate the top with a lettuce leaf.

Enjoy!