Four ingredient crispy and flaky strawberry cream cheese heart shaped puffs (or strawberry pastries) that are delicious and perfect for your valentine, giving you the perfect dessert that is so easy to make at home!
Perfect for valentines, these strawberry and cream cheese heart shaped puff pastry puffs are so easy, so fun to make and a great way to impress your sweetheart. Made with just four ingredients including store-bought puff pastry sheet, strawberries, sugar and cream cheese, these sweet puffs are perfect little treats for your date night!
This recipe for strawberry puffs is vegetarian, egg-less and one of the easiest dessert recipes existing on this blog! I love how adorable they look, plus it's something great to make not just for your valentine on your at-home date night, but they are also perfect for a fun cooking night with your kids or girlfriends since this recipe is so embarrassingly easy! It has honestly become my go-to recipe to make a dessert with strawberries.
How to make Strawberry Cream Cheese Heart Puffs
Ingredients
- Puff Pastry - Store bought (ready-made) frozen Puff Pastry sheet thawed until ready to be rolled out
- Strawberries - Fresh Strawberries
- Sugar - Powdered or Castor Sugar (Breakfast Sugar)
- Cream Cheese - Soft room temperature cream cheese
Start by rolling out the thawed puff pastry sheet - just enough for it to flatten out, making sure it's still thick. (If you roll out too thin, the puffs wont rise into those flaky layers that you see). The next step is to cut them into heart shapes and after transferring to a parchment sheet, gently make insertions with smaller heart cookie-cutter or a toothpick, making sure that you’re not fully cutting them, just scoring without fully cutting through the pastry. Then add cream cheese, strawberry, sugar and bake...
... until you get golden edges and the puffs look very crispy, flaky and totally puffed up. Finish these strawberry tarts/ puffs with drizzling some honey or syrup and enjoy! These are perfect fruit pastries to enjoy for breakfast too!
Tips and possible variations:
- CREAM CHEESE: It is best to keep your cream cheese at the kitchen counter for some time, until it naturally softens up to room temperature. This way it becomes easy to spread.
- PUFF PASTRY: Avoid adding any flour to the pastry sheet when you roll out. If your pastry is rolled out too thin, it wont rise into as many flaky layers.
- STRAWBERRY MIX: When you add sugar to chopped strawberries, it will tend to leave out liquid (syrup) - and you don't want that for this recipe. Hence add sugar to strawberries right toward the end (only after you’ve added cream cheese to the heart shaped puff pastries)
- MIXTURE QUANTITY: Don't add a lot of strawberry mixture & make sure they are within the inner hearts - it's the outer layer with no mixture that puffs up into crispy flaky puffs & if there if a lot is added, the puffs would just sink in rather than rising into crunchy layers.
- VARIATIONS: Feel free to mix it up or add some blueberries/ nuts to the strawberry mix or simply switch to apple and cinnamon to make some breakfast apple pastries.
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Strawberry Cream Cheese Heart Puffs
- Prep Time: 5
- Cook Time: 25
- Total Time: 30 mins
- Yield: 10-12 puffs 1x
- Category: Breakfast
- Method: Oven
- Diet: Vegetarian
Description
Four ingredient crispy and flaky strawberry cream cheese heart shaped puffs (or strawberry pastries) that are delicious and perfect for your valentine, giving you the perfect dessert that is so easy to make at home!
Ingredients
- 1 sheet of ready-made puff pastry (in the US: 1/2 of 17.3 ounces package) thawed
- 1 cup strawberries, finely chopped
- 1/4 cup cream cheese, room temperature
- 2 tsp sugar (castor sugar)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180 degree celsius or 350F.
- Roll out the puff pastry just a little bit to flatten it out - it should still be thick.
- With the help of a heart shaped cookie cutter, cut the puff pastry into 10-12 hearts.
- Now with the help of a toothpick or a smaller heart shaped cutter, score/ make insertions to half-inch from the edges. Make sure that you do not cut through the pastry.
- Now spread some cream cheese (room temp) within the scored part.
- Mix together chopped strawberries and sugar and carefully place them over the cream cheese.
- Transfer to oven and bake for 25-30 minutes until the edges are puffed up and pastries are golden brown in colour.
- Drizzle some honey or syrup (optional) and enjoy!
Notes
- CREAM CHEESE: It is best to keep your cream cheese at the kitchen counter for some time, until it naturally softens up to room temperature. This way it becomes easy to spread.
- PUFF PASTRY: Avoid adding any flour to the pastry sheet when you roll out and make sure you roll it out not-too-thin to ensure very crunchy flaky layers.
- STRAWBERRY MIX: When you add sugar to chopped strawberries, it will tend to leave out liquid (syrup) - and you don't want that for this recipe. Add sugar to strawberries right towards the end only after you’ve added cream cheese to the heart shaped puff pastries.
- MIXTURE QUANTITY: Don't overstuff the strawberry mixture & make sure they are within the inner hearts - it's the outer lawyer with no mixture that puffs up into crispy flaky puffs & if there is a lot of mixture, the puffs would just sink in rather than rising into crunchy layers.
- VARIATIONS: Feel free to mix it up or add some blueberries/ nuts to the strawberry mix or simply apple and cinnamon would be nice combination too.
Keywords: strawberry, dessert, eggless, breakfast, valentines
This recipe was originally published in Feb 2018 and recreated in Feb 2022. The video for this recipe is sponsored by Borosil. Thank you for supporting brands that are making this site possible.
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