Carrot Croissant Egg Salad Tea Sandwiches
Carrot Croissant Egg Salad Tea Sandwiches
Carrot Croissant Egg Salad Tea Sandwiches
Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook time: 25 minutes Yield: 16 tea sandwiches
2 cans refrigerated crescent rolls in a sheet Orange Food coloring or 20 drops of yellow and 3 drops of red 6 Hard Boiled Eggs (finely diced) 1/4 cup of Mayonnaise 2 Tbsp of yellow mustard 1 Tbsp of finely chopped dill Salt and Pepper to taste 1 egg 2 tablespoons water 1 large bunch of Dill to garnish tops 16 cream horn forms or you can take aluminum foil and shape into cone form. make sure to grease foil really well.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees if dark sheet pan do at 350
- Spray cooking spray on your hand and grease lightly each cream horn
- Unroll the Pillsbury Crescent Recipe Creations Seamless Dough Sheet onto a cutting board. Use a pizza cutter or a knife to cut the dough lengthwise into 8 equal strips
- Roll the strip into a 16″-17″ long log
- Wrap one dough strip around the cream horn form, starting at the bottom, pinch at bottom and top, Laying the seam side down on a parchment lined baking sheet
- Beat Egg and Water together. Brush egg wash onto each carrot form then brush with orange food coloring.
- Bake for 7 to 9 minutes
- Pull off cream horn form and let cool for 30 minutes
- In a separate bowl mix eggs, mayonnaise, mustard, dill and salt and pepper.
- Fill piping bag with egg salad and fill each carrot. (Best done the when you are serving them but if you have to do them the day before put a slightly dampened cloth over the croissants and cover with plastic wrap)
- Put sprigs of dill into the end for the carrot fronds.