Strawberry Cream Cheese Breakfast Pastries
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Strawberry Cream Cheese Breakfast Pastries
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A simplified, perfectly tasty pastry recipe! Made with flaky layer of store-bought puff pastry, creamy, tangy sweetened cream cheese and fresh strawberries. Who wouldn't love these?
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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
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Instructions
- Thaw puff pastry according to directions on package and halfway through thawing preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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).
- Transfer hearts to a baking sheet lined with a silicone liner or parchment paper, spacing 1 1/2-inches apart.
- 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.
- Add 1 tsp of the cream cheese mixture to center of each heart then spread outward without covering the 1/3-inch edge.
- Add strawberries over cream cheese layer, again without covering the edge. Using your fingertip brush the 1/3-inch edge with egg/water mixture.
- 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.
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.
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