Blue Cheese, Bacon and Creme Fraiche Puff Pastry Pinwheels

For our New Years Eve party, I made pinwheels. I did 3 different kinds of cold pinwheels and then decided to try and make a warm version. Here's the result

Ingredients:

1/2 cup sour cream
6 oz creme fraiche
Bacon strips - not cooked
Blue cheese
1 Puff pastry packet

Open up the puff pastry packet and roll out.

Mix the sour cream and creme fraiche together and spread on the puff pastry, leaving about an inch on one end for it to stay together once rolled up.

Lay slices of blue cheese over the spread

Then lay 2 strips of bacon next to each other, the length of the pastry. Repeat, alternating the cheese and bacon.

Roll up tight and wrap with baking paper and refridgerate until ready to cook.

Heat oven to 350°

Slice the roll into 1 inch (or a little thicker) slices and then glaze with an egg wash.

Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes, or until golden brown.

Place on a plate lined with paper towels. After about 5 minutes - move to a cookie cooling rack in order to help them stay crispy. Once totally cooled on the rack, they'll stay crispy. You can also eat them a few minutes after taking them out of the oven, they are delicious warm or cold!

Enjoy!

Ham, Bacon and Chedder Pinwheels

These are something I came up with after making 2 other kinds of pinwheels for our New Years party.

Ingredients:

8 oz cream cheese
2 Tbsp sour cream
1 Tbsp Horseradish cream (or horseradish apple cream)
1/2 - 1 cup shredded chedder
Deli slice honey ham
Bacon - fried crispy
Tortillas

Mix the first 4 ingredients together and spread evenly over a tortilla

Then sprinkle with crushed crispy bacon pieces

Then lay ham on top of the spread

 Spread some more of the cheese mix on top of the ham so that it sticks together when you roll it up

 

Then roll up and refridgerate. Once chilled, cut into 1 - 1 1/2 inch slices

These made great appetizers at our New Years party.

You can get creative, add other ingredients, lettuce or baby spinach, spring onions or chives. Enjoy!

Crab Pinwheels

I found this recipe on food.com it turned out great. I made some changes, because I wanted just a tad more flavor.

 Ingredients:

1 1/2 cup crab meat
8 oz cream cheese
2 Tbsp sour cream
3 green onions, chopped small
1 green pepper, chopped small (I used 1/2)
1 red pepper, chopped small (I used 1/2)
1 1/2 cups grated chedder cheese
Tortillas

I added:
1 Tbsp soy sauce
Dash of Garlic powder
Dash of Onion powder

Put all the ingredients in a bowl (except tortillas)

Mix well and then put a large spoonful on a tortilla

Spread evenly over the entire tortilla

Roll up and then cover with tin foil and refridgerate.

Once chilled, take out and slice into inch thick pieces. 

I was a little hesitant to make these, I wasn't sure how the crab meat would taste with tortillas, but I have to say, they are delicious! They were gobbled up at the New Years party.

Hope you like them! 

Blue Cheese, Cranberry, and Walnut Pinwheels

Ingredients:

8 oz cream cheese
4 oz blue cheese, crumbled
1 cup dried cranberries
1/3 cup green onions, chopped
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped and toasted
Salt & pepper
4 large tortillas

Put all the ingredients in a bowl (except the tortillas, of course)

Mix together until everything is evenly distributed

Spread on a tortilla and then roll up and refridgerate

After about an hour, take the roll out of the fridge and slice.

If you don't like blue cheese you can use feta as well. These have such a unique taste, a grown up twist on pinwheels.

Enjoy!