Strawberry Cream Cheese Breakfast Pastries
– A simplified, perfectly tasty pastry recipe! Made with a flaky layer
of store-bought puff pastry, a creamy, tangy sweetened cream cheese
filling and fresh strawberry topping. Who wouldn’t love them?
Strawberry Cream Cheese Breakfast Pastries
Servings: 9
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 (8.6 oz) sheet puff pastry
- 2 oz cream cheese, softened
- 1 1/2 Tbsp strawberry jam
- 1 drop red food coloring (or use beet powder) optional
- 2/3 cup very small diced strawberries
- 1 large egg whisked with 1 Tbsp water
- Powdered sugar, for dusting
Instructions
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Thaw puff pastry according to directions on package and halfway through thawing preheat oven to 400 degrees.
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While puff pastry is thawing, in a small bowl and using a rubber spatula, mix together cream cheese, jam and food coloring while pressing mixture along bottom and sides of bowl to smooth large lumps.
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Transfer to refrigerator until ready to use (so it's not runny, you can flash chill in freezer if you prepared this near the end of the pastry thawing).
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Cut pastry into heart shapes using a 3-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter (space them as close together as possible so you can get as many as you can out of the sheet).
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Transfer hearts to a baking sheet lined with a silicone liner or parchment paper, spacing 1 1/2-inches apart.
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Using a sharp pairing knife, lightly score a heart inside of each cut-out heart coming about 1/3-inch from the edge, without cutting entirely through bottom of the dough.
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Add 1 tsp of the cream cheese mixture to center of each heart then spread outward without covering the 1/3-inch edge.
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Add strawberries over cream cheese layer, again without covering the edge. Using your fingertip brush the 1/3-inch edge with egg/water mixture.
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Bake in preheated oven 14 - 15 minutes until edges are golden brown. Let cool on a wire rack then dust with powdered sugar. Serve the day they are prepared.
Recipe Notes
- If you want to save time you could just cut out 6 rectangles and slice the strawberries. Then use 3 oz of cream cheese and 2 1/2 Tbsp jam and 1 cup strawberries since you'll have a little more surface area to cover.
