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I would like to share some tried and tested recipes on my Food for Friends blog so join me there. The recipes are both borrowed and self-created and I really want to share them as I know how frustrating and sometimes stressful having to find interesting daily meals/snacks/desserts for the family and your friends when entertaining can sometimes be. Below is a taste of what you will find at my food blog. My girls, hubby and friends just love these......oh and me too.....They are really quick and easy to create..

Chocolate Croissants - so easy!
Oven temp about 180C

Ingredients: Puff pastry, cooking chocolate (either a bar broken up or choc chips), egg wash or water and a little caster sugar for sprinkling.

Method: Defrost pastry. My pastry comes in square sheets approx 30 cm sq with a plastic backing. With your pastry lying flat and with a sharp knife, make a knife cut down the centre of a sheet then turn it around and again make a knife cut down the middle. You now have 4 squares. Now cut each square diagonally so that you have two triangles, repeat with the remaining 3 squares ie 8 triangles.

Gently pick a triangle up and place it, on a lightly floured bench if it makes life easier, so that the longest side faces away from you and the tip faces you. Place a square of chocolate or say 6 choc bits near the centre and roll the tip over away from you so that the chocolate is now rolled up in the pastry and you have a long thin tube-like piece of pastry. Place this one gently, preferably on baking paper on a cooking tray, turning the ends up so that they resemble horns or a smile. Repeat the process until all triangles are filled.

Gently "wash" each of the croissants with a little egg wash or water and sprinkle caster sugar over each one. Bake in oven for approx 15 minutes but do keep an eye on them as some ovens vary. Serve as afternoon tea to the children, use as a delicious dessert accompanied with fresh berries and cream/ice cream or just sit down, make yourself a cuppa and enjoy one while you sit back and relax.

For more recipes please visit my blog titled Lady Lou's Food for Friends