This recipe is so easy and so delicious! I mean, how can it go wrong if it’s made with Nutella, right? (Except for my oldest son, who hates Nutella with a passion, which I can’t figure out at all!)

Ingredients

• Pastry Sheet
• Flour
• Nutella
• Berries of your choice
• Egg (optional)
• Sugar

This is SUCH a easy recipe! If you follow on Facebook, you received a teaser about how much the rest of the family enjoyed this tasty treat! When you add the fruit, it’s almost healthy! ;)

Roll out your pastry sheet with a rolling pin. This is where the flour comes in as you may need the flour so it doesn’t stick to the rolling pin, of course.

I cut the pastry sheet into 6 rectangle. You could also cut into 4 rectangles if you want them to be bigger.  Scoop a bit of Nutella (about a spoonful) and a about a spoonful of the berries of your choice onto the pastry.

Then fold over to close. Seal by pressing the edges of the pastry dough tight. Use a fork to make a decorative edge. Then cut a slit or two in the top of the pastry.

At this point you can either brush with beaten egg or spray cooking spray on the pastries. I tried it both ways and they tasted fine either way. Sprinkle with a bit of sugar.

Cook at 400 degrees for around 15 minutes or until golden brown.

The family LOVED this recipe! I tried it last night with frozen berries as we were out of fresh. They were a little juicier so next time I might thaw the berries and rinse before just placing them in the pastry.

Based on this recipe from Dam* Delicious.

I finally feel like I’ve found a useful way to utilize my Pinterest addiction! If you haven’t heard of pinterest, it is a site that allows you to create boards that you can pin pictures of items, which also allows a link back to the original site. It’s a great tool for planning, organizing, and remembering those cool recipes, crafts, and other things you find on the world wide web.

I will warn you…it is addicting…once you start pinning, you just.can’t.stop. Ask Merissa, who noticed my homemade pop tart pinning obsession over the weekend!

Back to how I’m using it for meal planning. For weeks now, I’ve been pinning recipes that look yummy and that I think our family would enjoy (with the Pin it button in my browser).  I have several food boards that I’ve been pinning to including No Meat Dishes, Yummy Foods, Budget Friendly Foods, Fun Food (usually things that are really cool looking that would never turn out that pretty for me!), and more. I’m a little obsessive about the food on Pinterest.

Yeah, I can pin it but can I cook it? That is the ultimate question.

Sooo….I’ve decided to use Pinterest for my weekly meal planning, which we need as I’ve been winging it quite a bit lately.  This not only gives me the links to the recipes but it gives me a visual of what I have planned for the week.

When I click on that board, it takes me to all the pins I’ve moved to the Menu Plan Board. You can easily move your pins from board to board with the edit function.

Once I had my menu set, I made my shopping list. There were specific recipes I was looking for as I had some items in the pantry and freezer that needed to be used.  I tried to plan several recipes around similar ingredients like the basil so the package wouldn’t go to waste. Most of the items that were on my shopping list with this plan was produce and a few spices.

I made several of these recipes yesterday so we will have plenty to eat this week and I have several new recipe posts to get crackin’ on. I even made big homemade pop tart plans. We shall see on that one! Kids are excited about it! :)

If you want to see my boards, follow me on Pinterest!

How do you use Pinterest?

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Thanks, Moms Need to Know!