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Appetizers

Buttery puff pastry bites: crisp cups with egg salad and chives

Name: Buttery puff pastry bites
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 24 pieces
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 275 g Puff pastry (1 package, rolled out); 1 tsp Butter (for greasing the pan); 4 Eggs; 3 tbsp Mayonnaise; 1 tsp Mustard; 1 tbsp Chives (snipped, plus more for sprinkling); to taste Salt; to taste Ground black pepper

Buttery puff pastry cups baked in a mini muffin pan and filled with egg salad, mayonnaise, mustard, and chives. Makes 24 bite-size appetizers.

Slovak cuisine · Vegetarian · New Year's Eve appetizers · Translated from Slovak · November 2, 2026 · Rate the recipe

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 50 min
Temperature: 200 °C (400 °F)
Servings: 24 pieces
Difficulty: Medium

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These puff pastry bites are small, crisp cups made from buttery puff pastry and baked in a mini muffin pan. Once cooled, they are filled with an egg salad mixture with mayonnaise, mustard, and chives. You can bake the cups a day ahead and fill them just before serving, making them a good choice for New Year's Eve or a party.

Ingredients

Units

Puff pastry (1 package, rolled out) 275 g
Butter (for greasing the pan) 1 tsp

Egg salad filling

Eggs 4
Mayonnaise 3 tbsp
Mustard 1 tsp
Chives (snipped, plus more for sprinkling) 1 tbsp
Salt to taste
Ground black pepper to taste

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Instructions

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Cut out the pastry cups
10 min
Preheat the oven to 200 °C (400 °F) and grease a mini muffin pan with butter. Using a glass, cut 24 circles about 6 cm in diameter from the puff pastry. Press them into the muffin cups and prick the bottoms with a fork.
Bake
12 min
Bake for 10–12 minutes, until golden brown. If the bottoms puff up, press them down with a teaspoon immediately after removing the pan from the oven. Let the pastry cups cool in the pan.
Hard-boil the eggs
12 min
Lower the eggs into boiling water and cook for 10 minutes, until hard-boiled. Cool them in cold water and peel.
Prepare the filling
5 min
Finely chop the eggs and mix with the mayonnaise, mustard, and chives. Season with salt and pepper.
Fill the cups
5 min
Fill the cooled pastry cups with the egg salad just before serving and sprinkle with chives.

Tip: The unfilled cups will stay crisp in an airtight container until the next day, but filled cups will start to soften after just a few hours.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per piece, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 71 kcal
Protein: 1.7 g
Carbohydrates: 4.3 g
of which sugars: 0.3 g
Fat: 5.0 g
of which saturates: 1.8 g
Fiber: 0.2 g
Salt: 0.3 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Maslové jednohubky z lístkového cesta: chrumkavé košíčky s vajíčkovou plnkou a pažítkou

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