Strawberry Cream Cheese Heart Puffs Food

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.

STRAWBERRY CREAM CHEESE HEART PUFFS

Steps:

• Chop the strawberries very finely and keep them aside.
• In a bowl, mix together the softened cream cheese and sugar. You can also microwave this mixture for about ten to fifteen seconds. (- not more than 15 seconds)
• Sprinkle some flour on the kitchen surface. Roll out the thawed puff pastry into a large rectangle. Make little hearts using a heart-shaped cookie cutter and make even small hearts within, using a toothpick as explained above in the blog post.
• Carefully transfer the hearts from the floured surface and place them on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Spread the cream cheese and sugar mixture on the puff pastry - only on the inside heart.
• Place the chopped strawberries carefully - again only on the inside heart. Brush some milk on the pastries, on the outside part and bake them in preheated oven at 200 degrees for eighteen to twenty minutes or until they are golden brown and puffed up.
• Take them out of the oven and drizzle some honey on the puffs and serve.

STRAWBERRY CREAM PUFF HEART

Steps:

• Heat oven to 425°F.
• Trace 15x12-inch heart on piece of parchment paper; place on baking sheet. Bring 1 cup water, butter and granulated sugar to boil in medium saucepan. Add flour; cook and stir 3 min. or until mixture forms ball. Spoon into large bowl. Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, with mixer until well blended. Spoon into freezer-weight plastic bag; cut 1 corner from bottom of bag. Squeeze dough into 16 (1-1/2-inch) mounds, with sides touching and following heart pattern on paper.
• Bake 20 min. Reduce oven temperature to 350ºF. Bake 25 min. or until golden brown. Turn oven off; open door slightly. Let cream puffs stand in oven 15 min. Remove from oven; cool completely.
• Meanwhile, bring remaining water to boil. Add to gelatin mix in medium bowl; stir 2 min. until completely dissolved. Add chocolate; stir until melted. Stir in milk. Refrigerate 15 min. or until thickened but not set. Gently stir in COOL WHIP. (If gelatin mixture is not thick enough to mound, refrigerate until desired consistency.)
• Cut cream puff heart horizontally in half using serrated knife. Gently remove top; remove and discard soft dough from center. Fill bottom with gelatin mixture; replace top. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Top with strawberries.

STRAWBERRY CREAM PUFFS EXTRAORDINAIRE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• In 10-inch Dutch oven over medium heat, heat butter, water and salt until boiling. Remove from heat. Add flour all at once. With a wooden spoon, vigorously stir until mixture forms a ball and leaves the sides of the Dutch oven. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each, until smooth. Cool mixture slightly.
• Using a pastry bag and large tip, drop 3-inch circles of choux paste around in a circle in a 12-inch shallow Dutch oven with a parchment paper circle on the bottom. Bake 50 to 70 minutes, or until golden, firm and dry. Take off heat and leave in oven for 15 minutes. Cool. Use a timer and rotate lid and pot.
• While puff ring is cooking, prepare Almond Pastry Cream. Mix sugar, flour, salt and milk together and cooking over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture thickens and boils. Boil 1 minute. In a small bowl beat egg yolks slightly. Temper the egg yolks by beating a small amount of the hot mixture into the eggs. Slowly pour the egg mixture back into the milk mixture, stirring well. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly until mixture thickens and coats spoon well. Do not boil. Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla and almond extracts and cool. Whip heavy whipping cream to stiff peaks, adding whip cream aid now, and fold into cooled pastry cream.
• After puff ring cools, with a sharp knife, carefully cut puff ring in half horizontally. With spoon, remove soft interior and discard, leaving hollow ring shell. Fill bottom shell with cream, then place sliced strawberries on the top and then replace the top of the shell. Refrigerate to set up.
• Prepare chocolate glaze by melting the chocolate and butter together in a 5-inch Dutch oven, stirring constantly. Stir in powdered sugar and milk until smooth. Cool. Spread on top of ring while slightly warm. Refrigerate ring.
• To serve, fill center of ring with fresh chocolate-dipped strawberries and serve immediately.

STRAWBERRY CREAM CHEESE TART

Steps:

• For Crust: Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Place butter in mixer and beat with paddle until soft and light.
• Gradually beat in sugar.
• Beat 5-10 minutes until the mixture is very light and whitened.
• Mix flour in gradually until completely mixed. Don't over beat.
• Gather dough and wrap in plastic wrap.
• Refrigerate about 30 minutes.
• Roll out dough, place a large spring form pan upside down in the middle of the dough and cut roughly ½ inch out from pan.
• Place cookie dough inside pan and bake for 15 minutes.
• Cream Cheese Filling: With wire whisk attachment beat soften cream cheese at highest speed until completely smooth and fluffy.
• Add sugar and vanilla.
• Beat for about 5 more minutes.
• Spread filling on crust, the crust does not have to be completely cooled.
• I start the filling when I pull the crust out of the oven.
• Now cover the top with sliced strawberries.
• Do not add sugar to the strawberries because it makes it to watery.
• Chill and serve!

STRAWBERRY CREAM PUFFS

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, bring water, butter, sugar and salt to a boil. Add flour all at once and stir until a smooth ball forms. Remove from the heat and beat in eggs, one at a time. Continue beating until mixture is smooth and shiny. , Drop by tablespoonfuls 2-in. apart on a large ungreased baking sheet (make 10). Bake at 400° for about 35 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack. , For filling, combine berries and 1/4 cup sugar. Chill 30 minutes. , Beat cream and remaining sugar until stiff. Just before serving, cut tops off puffs. Combine berries and cream mixture. Fill cream puffs and replace tops. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar, and serve with additional berries and mint leaves.

STRAWBERRY CREAM PUFFS

Steps:

• In a saucepan, heat water, butter and salt over medium high heat until butter melts.
• Reduce heat to low and add flour all at once, stirring until mixture forms a ball.
• Remove from heat and cool for 10 minutes.
• Add eggs to flour mixture one at a time, beating well after each addition, then cool for 10 minutes.
• Drop by 1/4 cupfuls onto greased baking sheet, making 12 puffs.
• Bake at 400° for 35 minutes or until golden brown.
• Remove from oven and let cool on wire rack.
• To prepare filling, beat heavy cream at medium speed just until thickened.
• At low speed, add confectioner's sugar, 2 tablespoons of reserved strawberry syrup and vanilla and beat until soft peaks form.
• Fold in drained strawberries.
• Cut tops off puffs and remove any soft dough from inside.
• Fill with strawberry filling and replace top.
• Sprinkle with confectioner's sugar.