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Chocolate Hazelnut Pastries and Sweet Rosé

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This post has been sponsored by the Sweet Wine Club. All opinions expressed are my own.

A creamy chocolate-hazelnut and orange filling are swathed in layers of crisped puff pastry, and then finished off with a super simple glaze. Delicious and elegant without being pretentious, these pastries are perfect for Mother’s Day, and pair excellently alongside a sweet Rosé.

In the movie Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Michael Caine and Steve Martin’s characters have a brief back and forth about wine. “You can’t drink them, Freddy, they’re far too valuable,” Caine’s character remarks. “So you sell them?” Martin’s character asks. “I’d never sell them, they mean too much to me,” Cain replies with biting indignance.

In those three lines, the best and worst of ‘wine culture’ is perfectly encapsulated. Marking vintages in dusty cellars, and gawking at the prices of boutique wineries have become traditions unto themselves, and let’s be honest such wine has always been more of an ‘decoration’ and ‘object’ as opposed to a beverage. I myself am guilty of this, since in just the few years that I’ve been reviewing and featuring wine professionally, I’ve developed a small reservoir of bottles that “mean too much to me” to part with – I can never really see myself popping them open, nor have I any intention of selling them. Instead, they function as bottled conversational pieces, the unwitting trophies I’ve collected almost by accident during my digital tour of the world of wine.

Nevertheless, wine, like almost all other industries within the realm of food and drink, is first and foremost about enjoyment – and that’s precisely where today’s featured wine club comes in.

“People think dry, but they ultimately drink sweet,” is one of the first things you’re taught when you begin learning about wine from the perspective of entertaining and reviewing. In other words, there’s a reason ‘Xenomavro’ grapes, and the so-called ‘black acid’ wine they produce has never quite broken into the mainstream. People prefer, and thoroughly enjoy, less challenging varietals – and understandably so.

Now, I’m not saying to default to ‘fun’ bottles of non-dry wines for every occasion, but if you’re looking to throw a pleasant, lighthearted spring themed party, or if you want to give a few bottles as a gift but you aren’t quite sure what direction to go in – “Think dry, but drink sweet.”

For example, let’s say you’re hosting a luncheon out on your porch, perhaps just light desserts – a ‘bite of something sweet.’ Perhaps you’re serving something along the lines of today’s recipe – perhaps Chocolate and Hazelnut Puff Pastries. The ideal wine would be something light, something ‘not dry,’ but definitely not a wine that’s a sugary fruit juice masquerading as wine. Instead, you would want something ‘pleasantly sweet,’ something ‘mature but lighthearted’ – like the pastries themselves.

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Chocolate Hazelnut Pastries and Sweet Rosé

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  • Author: Living the Gourmet
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 15 minutes
  • Total Time: 25 minutes
  • Yield: 1 dozen 1x

Ingredients

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  • 1 sheet puff pastry
  • 1 cup chocolate hazelnut spread
  • 2 tablespoons orange juice
  • 1 teaspoon orange zest
  • Confectioner’s sugar for dusting
  • Icing for drizzling (recipe below)
  • 1 egg and 1 teaspoon water, whisked for egg wash

Simple Icing:

  • 3/4 cup confectioner’s sugar
  • 1 tablespoon whole milk

Instructions

  1. In a bowl, stir chocolate hazelnut spread, orange juice, and zest. Set aside.
  2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  3. On a well-floured surface, roll out puff pastry dough into a 10×10 rectangle.
  4. Divide the rectangle with a pastry cutter into equal length rectangles about 3×3 inch.
  5. Spoon about 2 teaspoons worth of chocolate filling into the center of each rectangle. Brush the edges of the rectangle with the egg wash and fold over into a triangle. Crimp the edges with a fork and place each pastry on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Brush each pastry with the remaining egg wash.
  6. Bake for about 15 minutes or until golden and edges are a little bubbly.
  7. Remove and let cool to room temp before drizzling with icing. Before serving dust with confectioner’s sugar if desired. Enjoy!

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 12
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To fit that bill, consider signing up with the Sweet Wine Club, and you’ll receive exactly those sorts of wines. In today’s box, for example, we received a Stella Rosa Ruby Rosé Grapefruit, a Stella Rosa Passionfruit Mango, and a Stella Rosa Imperial Orange Moscato.

The Stella Rosa Passionfruit Mango is a classic ‘fruit bomb,’ opening with vibrant summer fruit essences, both from its base varietal and the natural mango and passionfruit added flavorings. On the palate, the wine is satiny in texture, with mixed fruits filling the mouth from start to finish, creating an instantly refreshing and very pleasant drinking experience.

The Stella Rosa Ruby Rosé Grapefruit is an interesting bottle. What is an otherwise sweet and fruity wine is offered an uncharacteristic complexity and ‘pucker-yness’ from its added grapefruit flavorings. This creates at sort of ‘sweet sour punch’ mouthfeel and flavor to the wine. Definitely serve this chilled, as the winemakers themselves suggest, preferably with company and something light and fruity as a pairing.

Finally, we received a Stella Rosa Imperiale Moscato Orange, which is what I’ll describe as a ‘down to earth sparkler’ with a splash of orange zest on the nose, and orange essence on the palate, which creates a perfect spring bubbly for your outdoor luncheon with friends, or just an ‘anytime’ bubbly for the weekend.

With all of that out the way, if you would like to try these or similar wines for yourself, visit the Sweet Wine Club, and sign up to receive a quarterly box containing three sweet wines along with a free surprise gift, as well as suggested food pairings and recipes with each shipment. You can cancel anytime, and with each box shipped Sweet Wine Club supplies a person in need with a year’s supply of clean water.

That said, I thoroughly enjoyed what I received from the Sweet Wine Club, and can wholeheartedly recommend them to my readers.

This message is intended for those 21+. Please enjoy responsibly. Cheers!

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  1. Gloria Roa Baker says

    these look delicious and i love sweet rose, an amazing.wine.
    Have a wonderful mom´s day !
    i have a hard fall this week so im not sure if iwill make something!
    i wrote here with my left hand ! hugs

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  5. kumamonjeng says

    The pastries look so pretty and should taste very good, I love hazelnut. Recently I was in Portugal Sintra and tasted one of the best hazelnuts pastries called “travesseiros” the shape is like a pillow. The pastry is so popular that everyone who visited Sintra has to come and queue for one travesseiros. Your post has reminded me of the taste of the pastries in Sintra, I shall try in this weekends.

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  11. Lisa says

    You’ve really got me going with these pastries and wine combination! It looks so good right now!

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  13. Alicia B says

    Yes! I love the Stella Rosa Mango but had not seen the Grapefruit option yet. I cannot wait to find a bottle near me. Going to go look today.

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  14. Jasemine Denise says

    Ohhh, this looks DELICIOUS! I love every flavor of Stella Rosa I’ve ever tried too. It’s like my choice wine! <3 Also, love love love hazelnut. This may just be a recipe I have to try!

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  16. DAVID J MYERS says

    Catherine, Those pastries look wonderful! I could eat 6 – 8 of them in one sitting… Have a great Mother’s Day! Big Daddy Dave

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  18. Catherine Santiago Jose says

    Wow, seeing this makes my mouthwatering. It looks hard but I still want to try to make this as a gift for my mom on this Mother’s Day!

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  19. Karin says

    That looks so amazing! I will have to try this with my family. I can’t wait to try it! I bet it’s going to be delicious.

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  20. Amy says

    Wow, I have never tried this recipe looks really delicious and easy. I will try to make this for my kids, thanks for sharing!

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  24. lauren says

    I can almost taste the crispy, butter puff pastry and melty chocolate just looking at these photos! I love finding wines are pair great with dessert and this sweet rosé sounds so perfect for that. Love the addition of orange too, such a great idea!

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  26. Jenni says

    These pastries look amazing! Love that you added orange zest to the chocolate hazelnut spread! I also really enjoyed all the information about the wine! I do tend to lean more towards dry and less sweet, but I enjoyed learning about these bottles and look forward to trying them!

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  31. Natalie says

    These puff pastries look incredible. I absolutely love flavor pairings you made here. What a lovely thing to serve for parties. I must give this a try.

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  33. Lorie says

    Huuuuuge Nutella fan and a huuuuuuge Rosé fan so I feel like I’m about to have one heck of a treat with these goodies!!! And orange sounds amazing to combine!

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