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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1 Stars 14g

Recipe makes 40 Stars)

Calories 78
Calories from Fat 50 (64%)
Amount Per Serving %DV
Total Fat 5.6g 8%
Saturated Fat 1.8g 8%
Monounsaturated Fat 2.9g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.6g
Trans Fat 0.0g
Cholesterol 2mg 0%
Sodium 54mg 2%
Potassium 16mg 0%
Total Carbohydrate 5.7g 1%
Dietary Fiber 0.3g 1%
Sugars 0.1g
Protein 1.4g 2%

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Pesto Pastry Stars

Recipe #184466 | 20 min | 10 min prep | add private note
Chef floWer

By: Chef floWer
Sep 3, 2006

I made these for Christmas 2005 with my daughter. She enjoyed making and eating them. The plate was empty in a few minutes. This recipe came from a little book called 'Bites' by The Australian Women's Weekly - Creative food

40 Stars (change servings and units)

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Directions

  1. 1
    Preheat oven to moderately hot/400oF/205oC/Gas Mark 6.
  2. 2
    Combine butter and pesto in small bowl. Spread pesto mixture over pastry sheets, sprinkle with cheese.
  3. 3
    Using a 5.5 cm cutter, cut stars from pastry sheets, place onto lightly oiled oven trays.
  4. 4
    Bake, uncovered, for about 10 minutes or until puffed and browned, cool.

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From: Karen Elizabeth

On Mar 27, 2009

Very easy, made while I was doing other baking. I didn't worry too much about the amounts, just spread on as much as I felt I needed. I used half basil pesto and half sun-dried tomato pesto, equally delicious! Lovely snacks, thank you, Flower!

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    From: CIndytc

    On Dec 26, 2008

    These were the cutest appy I served on Xmas Eve....They turned out perfect.

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    From: Mirj

    On Mar 17, 2007

    Oh my, snack heaven! My only problem is that two tablespoons of pesto and 1/2 cup of parm was not nearly enough to cover the 2 sheets of puff pastry. I easily tripled the pesto and used over a cup of cheese. Also, it seems that I, erm, don't have any cookie cutters in the house, let alone anything star shaped. We do, however, have plenty of whisky glasses in the house, so I used those! Once we got over the quantity and shape hurdles, these were so easy to make, and yummy!

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  • From: dreamerPrue

    On Sep 23, 2006

    I first made these for a Christmas function when the Australian Women's Weekly first published the recipe in their magazine in about 2000. It is one of those "life saver/ last minute" recipes that is so very quick and easy and really does look and taste good. It works just as well using non traditional pesto such as capsicum and sun-dried tomato.

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