Heart-Shaped Strawberry Cream Cheese Breakfast Pastries

Strawberry cheese Breakfast Pastries – A simplified, utterly tasty pastry recipe! created with flaky layer of factory-made puff pastry, creamy, sour sweet cheese and contemporary strawberries. WHO wouldn’t love these?

These puff pastry hearts ar the proper breakfast or brunch treat to convey to any of your friends or idolised ones.

Heart-Shaped Strawberry Cream Cheese Breakfast Pastries

Yes, they are doing take a touch a lot of effort then your typical sweet that uses a store bought puff pastry however they're thus worthwhile – particularly attributable to those pretty heart shapes and wonderful red and pink colours. 

Of course if you would like to chop back on those you may simply cut out half dozen rectangles and slices the strawberries (vs dicing them into very little pieces) which is able to go a touch quicker than the hearts.

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 (8.6 oz) sheet puff pastry
• 2 oz cream cheese, softened
• 1 1/2 Tbsp strawberry jam
• 1 drop red food coloring (optional)
• 2/3 cup very small diced strawberries
• 1 large egg whisked with 1 Tbsp water
• Powdered sugar, for dusting

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Thaw puff pastry according to directions on package and halfway through thawing preheat oven to 400 degrees. 
2. 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. 
3. 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).
4. 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). 
5. Transfer hearts to a baking sheet lined with a silicone liner or parchment paper, spacing 1 1/2-inches apart. 
6. 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. 
7. Add 1 tsp of the cream cheese mixture to center of each heart then spread outward without covering the 1/3-inch edge. 
8. Add strawberries over cream cheese layer, again without covering the edge. Using your fingertip brush the 1/3-inch edge with egg/water mixture. 
9. 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.

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