Strawberry Danish Hearts

Strawberry Danish Hearts are the right breakfast pastry for Valentine’s Day! Utilizing easy elements like cream cheese and contemporary strawberries, you’ll be able to bake strawberry cream cheese danishes with a flaky crust on this simple pastry recipe.

Need to win somebody’s affection? Feed them pastries.

Ideally selfmade pastries like these heart-shaped cheese danishes. This candy deal with tastes world’s higher than something retailer purchased, and also you received’t consider how simple they’re to make!

Strawberry Danish is scrumptious in any form. I’ll by no means flip down a breakfast pastry that mixes juicy strawberries with tangy cream cheese. You would even serve them as a Valentine’s Day dessert or any day to have fun that particular somebody.

By shaping the Strawberry Cheese Danish into hearts, we’re making them that a lot better. I really like this as a Valentines Day thought however nothing is stopping me from making Danish hearts all yr lengthy. A puff pastry coronary heart breakfast deal with makes any day really feel particular!

A couple of extra causes I really like this Strawberry Cheese Danish recipe:

It’s made with thawed sheets of frozen puff pastry. Really easy and handy!
The strawberries convey tons of pure sweetness to the danish, so that you don’t want so as to add a lot sugar.
From begin to end, this recipe takes simply half-hour to make!
The golden brown danishes look attractive on a breakfast plate!

After you learn to make strawberry danish at residence, you could do this recipe for Cheese Blintzes with Strawberry Sauce subsequent. Give me all of the cheese and strawberry combos, please!

Ingredients for Strawberry Danish Hearts

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Right here’s what you’ll have to make Strawberry Cream Cheese Danish Hearts.

Cream cheese – Let it come to room temperature first.
Sugar
Vanilla extract – can substitute almond extract when you’d like.
Frozen puff pastry sheets- Thaw it within the fridge earlier than utilizing.
Strawberries – Sliced, with stems eliminated. I extremely advocate utilizing contemporary fruit over thawed since utilizing frozen strawberries could add further moisture even when thawed.
Egg
Turbinado sugar – Or “sugar within the uncooked”.
Powdered sugar – For dusting over the pastry hearts after baking.
I take advantage of this dusting wand. It’s good for small jobs like this.

Together with the elements, you’ll additionally want a heart-shaped cookie cutter. I used one which’s about 3 inches tall which was good for 10 pastries.

Process steps for Strawberry Cream Cheese Hearts.

How do I make Coronary heart Form Strawberry Danish?

For the cream cheese filling beat collectively the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla in a mixing bowl. You need to use handheld beaters or a stand mixer for this step.

Now lay out two sheets of thawed puff pastry. Gently clean out any creases with a rolling pin. Use your coronary heart cookie cutter to punch out 10 hearts from the dough. Place hearts on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper

Spoon a small quantity of the cream cheese combination onto the middle of every coronary heart. Use the again of your spoon to form the cream cheese right into a small inside coronary heart. Attempt to depart an inch or so of pastry uncovered alongside the sides.

Place a strawberry slices over the cream cheese.

Brush the border of every coronary heart with the egg wash and sprinkle with Turbinado sugar earlier than baking till golden brown. Let the Strawberry Danish Hearts cool for a couple of minutes earlier than dusting with powdered sugar.

I like these selfmade cheese danishes greatest after they’re barely heat, however they style nice at room temperature, too. Both approach, be certain that to get pleasure from them the identical day they’re baked. They don’t retailer nicely.

Continued Process steps for Strawberry Cream Cheese Hearts.

What’s puff pastry dough?

Puff pastry is a dough made with flour and butter. The dough is rolled into skinny sheets which can be then folded on high of each other and frozen. The ensuing pastry baked to gentle, flaky perfection that’s supreme when making a danish pastry.

Yow will discover it within the frozen part of the grocery retailer. Watch out to not use frozen pie crust, crescent dough or phyllo dough as a substitute. These are totally different elements that received’t produce the identical outcomes as puff pastry.

Danish shaped into hearts with sweet cream cheese and topped with fresh strawberries.

Scrumptious Recipes for Breakfast

It’s simple to get caught in a breakfast rut. Including a couple of extra easy breakfast recipes to your rotation may also help you get away of the routine and make mornings extra enjoyable!

Arrange a Breakfast Parfait Bar with yogurt, fruit and granola and let everybody layer their very own parfaits. Or plan forward and assemble this Blueberry Bagel Breakfast Bake Recipe the night time earlier than.

In case you like make-ahead breakfast concepts, you’ll love this Baked Cinnamon French Toast for certain. French Toast Casserole is such successful with my household that I’ve made pumpkin, eggnog and even a baked caramel apple model over time.

Searching for less difficult pastry concepts to fulfill that morning candy tooth? These French Breakfast Puffs come collectively very quickly with a scrumptious cinnamon sugar coating! My Cranberry Macadamia Scones are one other favourite breakfast recipe with simply the correct amount of sweetness.

Not into sweets within the morning? I’ve savory breakfast followers lined with this Denver Scrambled Breakfast Braid and this Spicy Ranch Bacon. And these Loaded Huevos Rancheros, are a scrumptious mouthful, too!

For the very best of each worlds, attempt making a batch of Cajun Candied Bacon. It’s salty, barely spicy, candy and irresistible for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Heart Danish with strawberries and cream cheese.

Strawberry Recipes

Strawberries add coloration, taste and sweetness to every kind of dishes. I really like them in pastries like in the present day’s danish recipe and these Strawberry Cream Muffins. At the very least annually, I make a batch of those Nutella Crepes and stuff loads of contemporary ripe strawberries inside!

On the lighter facet of issues, I’ve an incredible Strawberry Spinach Salad recipe with selfmade poppy seed dressing. Serve it as a facet dish or add some grilled hen to make it a meal.

In the summertime, cool off with an ice chilly Strawberry Mojito or a glass of Recent Strawberry Lemonade.

What number of of my strawberry recipes have you ever tried to date?

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Strawberry Cream Cheese Danish in the shape of hearts.

Coronary heart-shaped strawberry danish served with a Valentine’s Day breakfast would be the key to unlocking anybody’s coronary heart. These scrumptious treats are a easy recipe and the right approach to present how a lot you like them.

Created by: Lynne Feifer

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Directions

Preheat the oven to 400°F, and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a big mixing bowl with a hand mixer, beat collectively the cream cheese, granulated sugar, and vanilla extract till clean.
Gently unfold the puff pastry sheets and roll out the creases with a rolling pin. With a coronary heart formed cookie cutter, punch out 10 hearts and place onto ready baking sheet.
Spoon a dollop of the cream cheese combination onto every pastry and unfold right into a smaller coronary heart form, leaving an area across the edges.
Place some sliced strawberries on high of the cream cheese.
Brush the sides of the pastry with a number of the crushed egg, and sprinkle with some Turbinado sugar. Bake for 15 – 18 minutes or till golden. Take away from oven and dirt with powdered sugar earlier than serving.

Notes

I extremely advocate utilizing contemporary strawberries over thawing frozen one as a result of the surplus moisture might affect the ultimate end result.

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