What do you make with your pastry scraps?

[Kake Lover]

Last time I had pastry scraps, I had a cooking apple in the fridge, so I made an apple pasty. Today I resorted to making a raspberry jam pasty becuase I coudn't think quickly enough to invent something from the random ingredients I had in the fridge or store cupboard. I wanted to use the oven while the pie I'd made was cooking. When my daughter was young and up to her leaving home she would enjoy making a few jam tarts.

So what do you do with the pastry scaps and trimmings from making a pie?

 

[Morning Glory]

Good question. I have some pastry scraps in the fridge which I really ought to use tomorrow. I sometimes make cheesy pastries - I just sandwich some grated cheese between two layers of pastry and bake.

 

[GadgetGuy]

Sometimes I cut them into decorative shapes and use the beaten egg to "glue" them to the top of a double crust fruit pie before baking it.

 

[Morning Glory]

Well, here is my bit of left-over pastry. Lets see what I can do with it tomorrow!

 

[Rocklobster]

Roll them up with brown sugar, butter, cinnamon and you've got Nun's Farts...

 

[Morning Glory]

Pet de Soeurs or beignets soufflès! I think I need puff pastry for those don't I. My leftover is a bit of shortcrust.

 

[toddhicks209]

Way back, I would make something like tiny pies with those leftover crust pieces.

 

[jennyb]

Way back, I would make something like tiny pies with those leftover crust pieces.

There are some very decorative ways you can use left over pastry to make pretty shapes to top pies. I make cheesy pastry twirls too.

 

[Elawin]

I usually use the scraps to decorate a pie. If there is a lot left, I freeze it, or fill it with jam and put it in the bottom of the oven for afters.

 

[Lullabelle]

Roll them up with brown sugar, butter, cinnamon and you've got Nun's Farts...

 

[Rocklobster]

Don't look at me. I didn't invent them....

 

[Lullabelle]

Don't look at me. I didn't invent them....

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I feed mine to my chickens, they love it. And when I used to feed the wild birds in my garden back in the UK, they got the pastry scraps as well. But if there is more than a hundred grams or so left and it's not puff pastry, it will get frozen for next time!

 

[Pete]

My granddaughter uses the pastry scraps to make all sorts of shapes and patterns.
Totally inedible, but, hey.. she loves it and is happy being creative.
I send the results home for mum and dad to 'enjoy'

 

[Pete]

Today's scraps were turned into a choc chip Cookie Monster by my granddaughter