This is a very common recipe used as finger-food/appetizer at many of our events in Germany. This past New Year’s Eve I tried it out on my American friends. Everybody was quite happy with it! For this reason I think this is a good very first recipe for my project for 2026.

The recipe only requires 4 ingredients and is really super easy! In Germany my family calls them Aldischnecken, which means Aldi snails, because you get all 4 ingredients cheaply at Aldi. Here in the US I did not see a refrigerated (not frozen!) puff pastry dough yet.

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Easy savory pastry snack snails

This is a super easy recipe for an easy appetizer made out refrigerated pastry dough, cheese, cream cheese, bacon.

Prep Time15 minutes mins

Cook Time15 minutes mins

Resting Time in Freezer15 minutes mins

Course: Appetizer, Finger Food

Cuisine: German

Keyword: appetizer, snack

Calories: 110kcal

Author: Hannes

Equipment

• Baking sheet

Ingredients

• 150 g Flavored cream cheese e.g. chive and onion
• 1 pack Refrigerated puff pastry dough e.g. Jus Rol
• 100 g Bacon leaner bacon preferred
• 100 g Shredded cheese

Instructions

• First cut your bacon in little pieces. Fry in a pan if the bacon is too fatty. The amount of bacon being used later should be around 100g after frying.
• Roll out the pastry dough and distribute the cream cheese of your choice over the pastry dough. Leave a little room on one of the long sides.
• Add the shredded cheese and the bacon pieces. Distribute evenly.
• Roll the dough from the side where you didn't leave room. Try to do it as firm as possible. Put the dough in the freezer for 15 minutes. Preheat the oven at 375°F in the meantime.
• After the roll rested in the freezer for a bit (at least 15 minutes) take it out and cut it up into half inch slices. Distribute on your baking sheet and leave some room in between (you can use the baking paper from the pastry dough). Bake for 15 minutes.

Notes

You can use whatever cream cheese and shredded cheese you like. In my last attempt I used Jalapeno cream cheese and some spicy cheese blend. If you only have plain cream cheese available, just season it with some fresh herbs or spices and my favorite: Paprika powder! One snail has about 110 calories!

I hope you enjoyed this German appetizer. I don’t have this fancy function where you can just rate my recipes, which is why it would be nice if you could just leave a comment, if you tried it successfully!