I have a block of puff pastry that needs using up .. what can I make from it using store cupboard ingredients?

[bubbleandsqueaks]

I have dinners for the week so was thinking along the lines of something for lunches or something sweet

Would really appreciate suggestions

Roll it out and add caramelized onions, cheese, peppers and bacon (or whatever you have/like) and cook as per pack instructions until pastry is done - makes a delicious and easy puff pastry tart which is great cold for lunchboxes too.

Sure there will be better suggestions but this is yum in my opinion.

I was going to post something similar to Mackerel.

I do a kind of puff pastry pizza thing - roll out pastry, add tomato sauce/puree, top with veg and cheese, cook until golden. Very easy and very tasty.

Make a banoffee tarte tatin type affair.

Sliced bananas and some brown sugar in a pan, wait till bubbly and golden brown. Stir in a bit of cream and place rolled out puff pastry over the top.

Oven it for 20 mins or so. Turn out and is YUM.

Mmm, or baklava (never made this but looks fairly simple... and sooo good).

Roll it out, cover with a thin layer of marzipan and then sliced fruit ( apples, plums, peaches all v good,) then bake for about 20 min and bruch with lemon juice/ apricot jam if you have any. Yummy like a danish pastry and practically one of your five a day!

Roll out and cover with goats cheese, dried apricots and pine nuts, then sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.

Would love to make something sweet for tomights pudding but the closest I come to having is the ingredients mentioned is the 'banoffee tarte tatin type affair' but I have no cream

Will go with the pizza idea for tomorrow lunches if I can't find anything I can make for today with the ingredients I have

Roll out and cut into squares. Place a square of chocolate and (possibly) a bit of dried apricot. Fold on the diagonal into a triangle and roll up like a croissant. Bake, dust with icing sugar and accept the compliments with serene grace.

Pizza Pinwheels
Roll it out, spread with tomato sause and grated cheese plus and toppings you fancy, then roll it up into a swiss roll, Chill in the fridge for about 10 mins. Then cutr the swiss roll into approx 2cm wide pieces.

Put the pieces flat onto a non stick baking tray, brush with egg and bake at 180 degrees for 12 mins.

Allow to cool a little before removing from the tray.

Lovely warm, or cooled in lunchboxes etc.

sause

Do you have mushrooms, cheese and onions? And maybe a sprinkling of herbs? And a handful of breadcrumbs? I do a kind of vegetarian 'sausage roll' that always goes down very well with both veggies and meat-eaters - fry onions, add mushrooms and herbs, cook till most of the liquid dries up, wait till it cools down a bit, add grated cheese and a few breadcrumbs, then use as filling for big or small rolls.

Sorry not sweet but my family love cheese and marmite swirls.

cut the block in half (so you do two lots) roll out so nice and thin so you can smear it all over with marmite then cover with grated cheese. Roll up like a swiss roll then slice it so the slices are about 1/2 inch thick. lay the slices out on greaseproof paper and bake for about 15-20 mins at 170c.

apologies if you don't like marmite I can't stand the stuff personally but the DSs love them.

i roll it up and put it around a chicken breast - tastes fabulous but it probably quite fattening., i call it my chicken brick [bgrin]

freeze it. it freezes really well.

It was frozen - dh defrosted it thinking we needed it, he calls it being helpful

I have decided that after the day I have had I def. need something sweet - I have:

Flour
Chocolate chips
Ground almonds
Baking powder
butter
currants
cocoa powder
icing sugar
sultanas
3 diff. types of sugar

Any ideas???

cut it in half.

with half, make pain au chocolat with the chocolate chips.

with the other half make some almond croissants.

can I come for breakfast please?

Roll it out thinly & then cut into squares.
Put a few choc chips, A small knob of butter & a sprinkle of ground almonds in one corner & then roll into a croissant shape & bake.
Dust with icing sugar.

If you have any custard you could part bake them & then put them in a dish with custard, sultanas & currants & then bake like a posh bread & butter pudding.

How long would you part bake them for sleepfairy?

Sorry bubble probably to late now but I would pop them in whilst the oven heats + 20 minutes just to give them a bit of colour & crisp up before covering in the custard & baking until bubbly hot.

Not something I have made before & totally off the top of my head so let me know if you did it & what it was like!!

Sausage Rolls like Lorraine Pascale did last week on "Baking Made Easy". It will be off iPlayer now, but she cooked good quality sausages, cut them in half then rolled them up in strips of pastry with a little thyme, brushed them with beaten egg and baked in the oven until the pastry went golden brown.

Just spotted that it IS still on iPlayer!