Leftover Pastry Banana Nutella Pinwheels are dainty puff pastry swirls flavoured with Banana and Nutella – so quick and easy to put together and so delicious!
Today I’m bringing you Leftover Pastry Banana Nutella Pinwheels!
My favourite way of making quiches is with puff pastry and I always have some left over. Often I’ll make some extra egg mixture to make mini quiches for the children’s packed lunches or maybe do some cheese straws.
The other day though I decided I would make some peanut butter and jam pinwheels I’d read about in The Guardian. I always have peanut butter in the house and was really looking forward to doing something different with my leftover pasty until the store cupboard let me down!
Someone had eaten all the peanut butter (it wasn’t me, honest) most likely my son, so I was left scratching my head as to what to make instead.
Whatever it was, I wanted it to be ultra quick and easy as I wasn’t in the mood for fuss and fiddle.
I looked in my cupboard and saw the Nutella staring back at me and then a sideways glance at the fruit bowl offered up bananas.
Ha, ha, I thought, I wonder if they would work? Well about 25 minutes later out from the oven came the cutest little pinwheels (yes they are finger food, not Danish pastry size) and the smell was just divine.
My family happily tucked into these Leftover Pastry Banana Nutella Pinwheels after dinner and my daughter asked why I hadn’t used all the pastry up to just make them.
They really are fabulous and the banana adds a gooey texture a bit like the custard in a Danish pastry whirl.
These pinwheels were never intended as a blog post but when they tasted so good I hastily took a few quick shots!
So if you have a bit of puff pastry left over and fancy a little sweet treat with a cuppa then I urge you to make these pinwheels.
You don’t need to fuss over exact measurements and you’ll probably only need half a mashed banana but I happily ate the leftovers.
More Leftover Pastry Recipes
- Prosciutto Puff Pastry Twists – Fuss Free Flavours
- Sunny Picnic Quiches – Fab Food 4 All
More Nutella Recipes
- 3 Ingredient Banana Nutella Pancakes
- Nutella Brioche Pudding
- Banana & Chocolate Quesadilla
- Hazelnut Chocolate Banana Delight with Meringue
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Leftover Pastry Banana Nutella Pinwheels
Ingredients
- Leftover Puff Pastry
- Mashed banana
- Nutella
- I egg whisked for eggwash
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C.
- Roll the pastry out to a thickness of about 2mm (like in a pre-rolled sheet), don’t worry about a neat shape, mine looked like an amorphous blob!
- Slather on a thin layer of Nutella with a spatula.
- Then spoon on the mashed banana to form a thin layer too.
- Cut the pastry into strips, roughly 1 cm wide or slightly more.
- Gently roll each strip up and place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
- Brush each pinwheel with egg wash.
- Bake for about 20 – 22 minutes until baked through and golden. This timing is based on lengths of about 13 cm if shorter lengths are used decrease the baking time or if longer you may need to increase the time.
- Once baked, place pinwheels on a wire rack to cool.
tiggerific1973
I was going to make jam tarts with the left over pastry, now I am not! Great recipe 🙂
Camilla
Great stuff:-)
Heather Haigh
What a good idea for using up pastry bits – and I know my lot would love them.
Camilla
Thanks Heather:-)
Food Glorious Food
Perfect snacks for kids and adults alike 🙂 x
Camilla
Thank you, yes and good for kids to make too:-)
Kate @ Veggie Desserts
What a great way to use pastry scraps. These sound gorgeous!!!
Camilla
Thanks Kate, I’ll be making many more of them:-)
Ursula Hunt
These sound delicious, banana and chocolate is a great combination
Camilla
Thanks Ursula, yes I think I have a banana and chocolate addiction:-)
Keep Calm and Fanny On
Great way to use up extra puff!
Camilla
Thanks you, it’s going to be a regular here now:-)
Jan @GlugofOil
Love the idea of these – bananas and nutella – yum!
Camilla
Thanks Jan, they’re really yummy:-)
Laura@howtocookgoodfood
I love all the ingredients you have used here and think this is a perfect way of using up some pastry. I would love to eat these with some vanilla ice cream, a lovely quick pudding!
Camilla
Thank you Laura, yes that would be a great idea too:-)
Nayna Kanabar
These look so tasty and simple to make.
Camilla
Thank you Nayna;-)
Leila Benhamida
Wonderful! Special treat to make with kids.
Camilla
Thanks Leila, yes perfect for kids to make:-)