Heart-Shaped Cream Cheese Berry Pastries
I made these pastries for our Valentine’s Day afternoon tea.
They were straightforward to make and turned out delicious!
They only take about 30 minutes from start to finish and make a beautiful dessert. They are perfect for brunch, luncheon, afternoon tea, or even for dessert.
Supply List for these Heart-Shaped Cream Cheese Berry Pastries
knife
spoon
small bowls
can opener for pie filling
Ingredients for these Heart-Shaped Cream Cheese Berry Pastries
This recipe makes up to 32 pastries.
32 oz of pastry dough (or 4 cans of crescent pastry roll dough is what I had on hand and that worked great)
Cream Cheese Filing
8 oz cream cheese (or 1/2 block. If you want to use an entire block of cream cheese, double everything else).
1 teaspoon vanilla
1- egg yolk
1/4 teaspoon lemon juice
Toppings:
12 large strawberries, diced mixed into 1/2 C strawberry jam or you can just use strawberry pie filling
1/2 C Blueberry pie filing or you can make a jam filing by adding. 1/2 C blueberry jam + about 1/2 C blueberries.
Optional- cherry pie filing or a jam + cherry mix.
Egg Wash
1 egg + 1 TBSP water = egg wash
How to Make These Heart-Shaped Cream Cheese Berry Pastries
Continue reading and/or watch the video.
Preheat oven to 380°F
1- Mix cream cheese, vanilla, egg yolk, and lemon juice in a mixing bowl until smooth. Set aside.
2- Open Pillsbury pastry dough take 8 rectangles of pastry dough and stack 2 rectangles on top of each other. You should have 4 rectangles of double-stacked pastry dough. If you are using a different pastry brand just make sure you have 4 rectangles of double stacked pastry dough. Cut out 4 long strips in each rectangle, making 16 strips of dough. Meet the ends of the strip of dough in the middle. Now you have new ends of folded dough, push these upwards so it resembles a heart. Please watch the video if this is a bit confusing.
3- Set them right side up on a cookie sheet (so you can see the layers of dough and the heart shape) on wax paper or a silicone baking mat.
4- Put about a TBSP of cream cheese mixture on the top of the heart in a heart-shaped pattern, avoid going to the edge.
5- Put about 1/2 TBSP blueberry pie filling and/or strawberry topping (diced strawberries mixed into strawberry jam) in a heart-shaped pattern on top of the cream cheese mix and try to avoid it from spilling over the edge.
6- Whisk the egg and water together to make an egg wash.
7- Using a pastry brush brush the edges of the pastry dough.
8- Bake for about 12-17 minutes. Watch them closely after 12 minutes and remove them when the edges are golden brown.
9- Remove them and allow them to cool a bit, if desired add more topping to each pastry
Enjoy!
Valentine's Day Easy Cream Cheese Berry Pastries
Easy-to-make heart-shaped cream cheese berry pastries-perfect for Valentine's Day
Ingredients
- 32 oz of pastry dough (or 4 cans of crescent pastry roll dough is what I had on hand and that worked great)
- Cream Cheese Filing
- 8 oz cream cheese (or 1/2 block. If you want to use an entire block of cream cheese, double everything else).
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1- egg yolk
- 1/4 teaspoon lemon juice
- Toppings:
- 12 large strawberries, diced mixed into 1/2 C strawberry jam or you can just use strawberry pie filing
- 1/2 C Blueberry pie filing or you can make a jam filing by adding. 1/2 C blueberry jam + about 1/2 C blueberries.
- Optional- cherry pie filing or a jam + cherry mix.
- Egg Wash
- 1 egg + 1 TBSP water = egg wash
Instructions
1- Mix cream cheese, vanilla, egg yolk, and lemon juice in a mixing bowl. Set aside.
2- Open Pillsbury pastry dough and stack two rectangles on top of each other so that you have two rectangles of double stacked pastry dough. If you are using a different pastry brand just make sure you have two rectangles of double stacked pastry dough. Cut out 4 long strips in each rectangle and meet the ends in the middle. push up the sides so it resembles a heart. Watch the video if this is a bit confusing.
3- Set them right side up on a cookie sheet with wax paper or a silicone baking mat.
4- Put about a TBSP of cream cheese mixture on the top of the heart in a heart shape pattern.
5- Put about 1/2 TBSP blueberry pie filling and/or strawberry topping (diced strawberries mixed into strawberry jam) in a heart shaped pattern.
6- Whisk the egg and water together to make an egg wash.
7- Using a pastry brush brush the edges of the pastry dough.
8- Bake them for about 12-17 minutes. Watch them closely after 10 minutes and remove them as soon as the eges are golden brown.
9- Remove them and add more topping on each.
Enjoy!
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