Heart Shaped Strawberry Cheesecake Puff Pastry Pies Recipes

STRAWBERRY CREAM CHEESE BREAKFAST PASTRIES

Steps:

• 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.

HEART SHAPED STRAWBERRY CHEESECAKE PUFF PASTRY PIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375°F.
• Combine the cream cheese, confectioners sugar and vanilla extract in a medium mixing bowl.
• In a separate small mixing bowl, combine the strawberries, granulated sugar and lemon juice.
• Roll out the puff pastry dough on a floured surface.
• Use a rolling pin to roll thin.
• Cut the puff pastry dough in heart shapes.
• Discard the scraps of puff pastry dough between the cut out hearts.
• Whisk the egg and water together to make an egg wash.
• Brush the edges of each heart with the egg wash. I simply use my finger to do this.
• Fill half of the hearts with a spoonful of the cream cheese mixture.
• Add the strawberry mixture on top of the cream cheese.
• Place the other half of the puff pastry hearts on top.
• Use your fingers or a fork to seal the edges shut together.
• Place the heart shaped pies on a baking sheet.
• Brush the tops with the egg wash.
• Place in the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes.