Heart-Shaped Strawberry Cream Cheese Breakfast Pastries
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Category
Dessert
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Cusine
French
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How to make?
Ingredients
1 sheet puff pastry
2 oz cream cheese
1 1/2 Tbsp strawberry jam
1 drop red food coloring
2/3 cup very small diced strawberries
1 large egg whisked with 1 Tbsp water
Powdered sugar
Directions
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 . Cut pastry into heart shapes using a 3-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter . 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.