Make these heart shaped Strawberry Cream Cheese Pastries this Valentine’s Day. A simple puff pastry base topped with cream cheese and fresh strawberries. An easy to make delicious treat!

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Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and these Strawberry Cream Cheese Pastries would be just perfect. By using store bought puff pastry, these are easy to make and don’t take a whole lot of time. Express your love this holiday season with a simple special treat. And you won’t want to miss out on the Sweetheart Brownies or the Very Pink Sweetheart Cookies for Valentine’s Day as well.

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What’s This Recipe Like

• Difficulty – This is a very easy recipe just using a few ingredients and it takes only about 30 minutes!
• Taste – For such a simple dessert or brunch, this delivers so much flavour and is pretty as well.
• Serving – I used a three inch heart cutter and got 12 puff pastry hearts for this recipe.

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Ingredients

• Puff pastry – I used a sheet of frozen, ready to roll puff pastry. You can use your favourite brand.
• Cream cheese – I used full fat cream cheese for my pastries.
• Sugar – Granulated white sugar is used to add to the cream cheese mixture as well as a little to top the strawberries just before baking.
• Vanilla extract – A small amount of vanilla extract adds a great flavour to the cream cheese mixture.
• Strawberries – I used fresh strawberries that were diced small.
• Egg – A whisked egg is used to brush the pastry edges before baking.
• Powdered sugar – Powdered sugar makes a nice touch for dusting the pastries before serving if desired.

NOTE, The full recipe and ingredient list can be found at the end of the post in the recipe card.

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Instructions

1. Preheat oven – Preheat oven to 350 degrees F/180 degrees C. Line a large baking tray with parchment paper and set aside.
2. Make cream cheese mixture – In a large mixing bowl, combine the cream cheese,1/3 cup of granulated white sugar and the vanilla extract. Mix on high speed for about one minute until smooth.
3. Cut out pastry hearts – Roll out the puff pastry and using a 3-inch heart circle cutter, cut out 12 hearts. Place all the hearts on the baking tray. Using a slightly smaller heart circle cutter, gently press inside the hearts to store a boarder.
4. Top the pastry hearts – Spoon a spoonful of the cream cheese mixture on top of the puff pastry hearts. Smooth out until it reaches the boarder. Top with diced strawberries.
5. Brush egg wash – Brush the edges of the pastry with the beaten egg. Sprinkle the remaining sugar over the strawberries.
6. Bake – Bake between 18 – 20 minutes until puffed up and golden. Dust with powdered sugar if desired.

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Recipe Tips

• Prep ahead of time – This can be prepared up to 8 hours before baking. Don’t brush with the egg wash until just before baking.
• Use cold puff pastry – Cold puff pastry is much easier to work with, so be sure to keep it in the fridge until you are ready to use it.
• Don’t over fill the hearts – Overfilling will cause the cream cheese to spread out too much and run down the sides of the pastry.

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Substitutions and Flavour Changes

• Use a different pastry – Puff pastry works best for this recipe, but you can use filo or shortcrust. Just remember, the results will be different and may require different baking times.
• Try different berries – You could use fresh raspberries or blueberries.
• Make a glaze for the top – By combining about 1/2 cup of powdered sugar with 2 tablespoons of milk, you can make a basic sugar glaze. Just drizzle over the top after baking.
• Make a different shape – You don’t have to be limited to heart shapes for this recipe. You could make turnovers, cut into triangles, scrolls, pinwheels, swirls, sticks or squares. You can put your own twist on it easily.

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Serving

• As part of a brunch – These little pastry hearts would be great to serve as part of a Valentine’s themed brunch.
• Dessert – Great as a small dessert after a bigger dinner on Valentine’s Day.
• Serve at parties – A great Valentine’s Day treat to serve at parties. Kids and adults alike will love them.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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