![]() Please don’t get hung up on the exact number of twists to make to your unbaked straws or how thick or how long they should be. When it is at temperature put the straws into the oven and bake for between 15 to 20 minutes. This lets everything relax and you will end up with a much flakier cheese straw. Put the baking trays of cheese straws into the fridge to chill for at least 10 minutes. Press the ends into the tray, show them who’s boss. if the straws begin to unravel when you lay them out on the baking tray.When you’ve done this for all of the cheese straws. Lay the cheese straws on the greased baking try and twist them 3 or 4 times. This gives me between 16 to 24 cheese straws depending on how accurate I am with the cutting. How long do you want the cheese straws to be? I usually have the short edge of the rectangle of pastry in front of me, I cut the straws the width of the dough and then 2cm wide as I measure along the length. Decide how wide you want our cheese straws to be and cut as many strips as you can from the sheet or rolled pastry in front of you. Using a knife trim the edges of the pastry to make a nice neat rectangle. Using your rolling pin, roll the pastry out in a rectangle. Take the short edge over to meet the other short edge, enclosing the cheese inside like a sandwich or pocket. Sprinkle the cheese over pastry sheet and fold the pastry sheet half. Roll it out into a rectangle until it is 3mm thick. If you’ve bought the puff pastry as a block you will need to unpackage it and find a rolling pin. ![]() If you’ve bought it pre-rolled as a sheet, you will only need to unroll it onto your work surface. There are just a few easy steps to making the cheese straws. Sprinkle a couple of tablespoon of parmesan over the cheese for another flavour note. Double Gloucester gives a different colour when baked and a gentler flavour. cheese – I generally use a mature cheddar when I’m making these but use your favourite cheese.paprika – add a 1/2 teaspoon of paprika, gently sprinkled over the pastry before adding the cheese.sesame seeds – add a nice crunch, looks pretty too.None of these additions is necessary but they do add a little something more. you know that the pastry will always be goodĪ few things to add to the basic recipe if you wish.if you buy ready rolled it is even quicker.Life is busy and some shortcuts are worth making, for me, that includes puff pastry. I prefer to make my own pastry shortcrust pastry and even flaky pastry but when it comes to puff pastry I find the whole process quite long so I cheat and buy ready-made. When puff pastry cooks it beomes lovely and cripsy giving you lovely bakery-style cheese straws.Using puff pastry means that your cheese straws will be beautifully light and ‘puffed’ up.Using ready made pastry therefore saves you a lot of time and effort.Puff pastry is a laminated pastry, it’s made up of many layers and it can be quite time consuming to make. They’re made with read-made puff pastry. ![]() Why these Cheese Straws are good – a short overview ![]() If you’re on the lookout for an easy recipe to make really flavourful, bakery-style, savoury party nibbles that is also quick and pretty to look at, then this is a recipe for you.
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