These crowd-pleasing cheese straws are super easy to make and look stunning as part of a cocktail hour spread. Vary the cheeses and flavorings to create a different snack every time!

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These cheese straws will not only look stunning as part of your cocktail hour spread, but they will disappear in no time! Great news: they’re super easy to make and you can easily double or triple the recipe to make a bigger batch, if you’re serving them to a larger group. Simply bake them in batches watch them fly off the serving plate!

Cheese straws might look intricate to make, but they come together very quickly and easily. They’re a fun project to do with kids: don’t worry about crooked cheese straws! The rustic look of cheese straws is part of their charm. All you need to worry about is to pack as much flavor into the straws as you can, so if some of the flavorings remain on your working surface as you transfer the cheese straws to the baking sheets, make sure to pick up every last bit of it and sprinkle it over the straws before baking.

Helpful Tips for Making Cheese Straws

• Use the best quality puff pastry you can afford: Since these cheese straws come together with so few ingredients, it’s important to select tasty ones to work with. I recommend using 100% butter puff pastry for the best flavor and the flakiest texture.

• Play with different cheeses: Flavorful, hard, aged cheeses work best in cheese straws, but from there, you can use any cheese you like best. Gruyère and Comté are two classic French picks, but I often make cheese straws with Parmesan, because I always have that cheese on hand. You can also use aged Cheddar, Swiss, and so on.

• Vary the flavorings: I love combining Gruyère or Comté cheeses with walnuts because the nuts enhance the naturally nutty notes delivered by the cheeses. If, for any reason, you can’t or don’t want to use nuts, you can use finely chopped, pitted olives, fresh or dried herbs, or seeds such as poppy or sesame seeds. Sprinkle a pinch of smoked paprika or cayenne pepper for a delightful flavor punch!

• …Or keep it simple: If you’re short on time or ingredients and only have cheese on hand, no worries: You can also quite simply omit any additional flavorings and only use cheese as a garnish! The resulting snack will be every bit as addictive and delightful as it should be.

 

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