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Maria Scuor

Strawberry Cheesecake Puff Hearts

Serves: 6


I love Napoleons, the creamy layers in between puff pastry. Delicious! For Valentine’s Day I wanted a twist on these therefore I’ve added strawberries, cream cheese in a puff pastry shaped as a heart. It was a big hit!


Ingredients

1 puff pastry sheet thawed per directions on package

1 package instant vanilla pudding

1 cup milk

110 grams soft light cream cheese

1 cup Cool Whip

1 cup sliced strawberries

Icing sugar for dusting

Dark chocolate or melting wafers for drizzling


Directions

  1. Preheat oven 400°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper

  2. Roll out pastry dough and using a rolling pin roll out a little bit

  3. Cut out large hearts with cookie cutter

  4. Remove the excess dough and place hearts on baking sheet

  5. Bake for 15 minutes until lightly golden, remove from oven and let cool on cooling rack

  6. In a large bowl beat together pudding and milk until thickened

  7. Beat in cream cheese

  8. Using a spatula fold in Cool Whip

  9. Cover with saran wrap and refrigerator for an hour

  10. Cut each piece of pastry in half with a knife

  11. Because the pastry is so delicate I use a squeeze bottle to pipe the filling on one side of the open heart. You can use a piping bag if you like as well.

  12. Top with a layer of strawberries and then another layer of cream

  13. Place top layer of puff pastry on top

  14. Put a rose dab of cream on the center of each heart

  15. Place the hearts on a nice serving tray and pile any extra strawberries on each side of tray and pipe some cream on top of each pile

  16. Dust each with icing sugar and shave some dark chocolate on each

  17. Melt the chocolate or melting wafers

  18. Using the whisk make sure everything is melted and using the whisk drizzle the chocolate on top of each heart and get some on the plate too for effect

  19. Chill for a couple of hours

Serve alone with some strawberries and cream on the side or I’ve served with a couple of my Valentine Chocolate Shortbread Cookies which complimented the dessert really well



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