These mini Nutella croissants are a quick way to use up any puff pastry you may have hanging about!
If you have any frozen or chilled puff pastry you need to use up, or just want to make something fast using shop-bought puff pastry, these mini Nutella croissants are an incredibly easy option.
Apologies to any French readers as I’m pretty sure these don’t strictly qualify as “croissants”.
My chocolate spread wasn’t Nutella – it was a white and milk chocolate mixture. Any chocolate or chocolate hazelnut spread will work fine.
Ingredients
- Some frozen or chilled ready-made puff pastry – how much you use will depend on how many croissants you want to make. I got 16 mini croissants from one sheet.
- Chocolate hazelnut spread – you will need about a teaspoon of spread per mini croissant, so how much spread you need will again depend on how many croissants you want to make.
- A little milk or a beaten egg for glazing.
Method
You will need one or two non-stick baking sheets, or you can line baking trays with greaseproof baking paper. Pre-heat your oven to 180 degrees C (160 degrees C fan) / Gas Mark 4 / 350 degrees F.
On a floured surface, use a rolling pin to roll your pastry into a large rectangle. Roll the pastry very thin, about 2 mm. Cut the pastry into rectangles. Mine were about 5 cm (2 inches) by 10 cm (4 inches), but this isn’t an exact science! Cut each rectangle along the diagonal to form 2 triangles. A picture is better than words to explain this!
Put a teaspoon of chocolate hazelnut spread at the long end of the triangle, opposite the point.
Roll the puff pastry over the Nutella, starting at the end of the triangle next to the chocolate hazelnut spread, rolling towards the point of the triangle.
Pop the mini croissants on a baking tray and brush them with a little milk or beaten egg.
Bake for 10-15 minutes until the pastry has risen and is golden brown. Transfer the mini croissants to a wire rack to cool.
Dust with a little icing sugar if you like!
These mini chocolate croissants are best eaten as soon after baking as possible. They will still be ok the day after baking if you store them in an airtight container in a cool, dry place.
Looking for other recipes featuring chocolate hazelnut spread? Try this!
Hazelnut muffins with crunchy topping and with chocolate hazelnut filling.
Chocolate hazelnut cookie cups.
Art and Soul 
These look to die for!
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They were lovely, especially when freshly baked. And they only too a few minutes 🙂
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These look so good!!! I wish I had more time for baking!
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Thank you 🙂
I do too – I always go for things which are quite quick. Also I can’t wait to eat the baking usually!!
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Yum! Chocolate twists they call them in Costa 🙂
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I didn’t know they did them in Costa! I’m partial to their millionaire’s shortbread 🙂 mmmm. Love the stuff but it’s a faff to make and mine usually falls apart!!
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These look fab!
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Thank you 🙂 They were lovely, especially when hot from the oven!
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Wish I did eat Nutella now!
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You can use any chocolate spread. Would work with jam too but it would spread out more in the oven – still delicious though! 🙂 x
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Love the idea…and so quick to make 🙂
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Thank you – they were so easy to make. A quick treat! 🙂
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I’m not even going to try these, but am definitely handing everything over to the husband and challenging him to do them!!!! Great post, they look fantabulous!!!
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Good idea! 🙂
They were so easy to make and yummy, especially the few I scoffed straight from the oven!
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I love anything with chocolate spread, so these sound absolutely fantastic! You can never go wrong with chocolate and puff pastry.
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You can’t! Particularly when you don’t have to make the puff pastry (I don’t know how people who make their own have the patience for all that rolling and chilling!).
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Ah yes I have never been able to find the patience to do so either! I only tried making ‘fake’ puff pastry once, but the story bought stuff tastes better so the easy way out it is. 😉
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These sound tasty and so easy too.
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They were lovely and very easy to make. The nice crunch you get when you eat them fresh from the oven…mmmm! 🙂
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These look amazing Claire!
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Thank you! They were particularly delicious when eaten still warm from the oven 🙂
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oh I am sure!
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They look like they type of treat that you can’t just stop at one of.
Delicious but dangerous for the waist line! 😉
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Exactly! One isn’t enough 🙂
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To dangerous for me I would have eaten all of them in one go!
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It was tempting!! 🙂
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