Sweet puff pastry hearts are a delightful and easy-to-make treat, perfect to serve for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, or Father’s Day. The puff pastry hearts not only have a sweet cream cheese filling, but also slices of strawberries that make them even more delicious. The little puff pastry hearts should be consumed on the same day to enjoy the best crispness of the pastry. If you’re looking for more heart-themed ideas, also try puff pastry hearts with custard, EGG-IN-A-HOLE BREAD, and the Panna Cotta Cake with Mirror Glaze. Now let’s see how to make sweet puff pastry hearts, and if you try them let me know. Barbara

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Difficulty: Very easy
Cost: Economical
Preparation time: 15 Minutes
Portions: 12
Cooking methods: Oven
Cuisine: Italian
Seasonality: All seasons

Ingredients to prepare sweet puff pastry hearts

1 sheet puff pastry (rectangular)
5 oz strawberries
3.5 oz cream cheese (like Philadelphia)
1 tsp powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
to taste powdered sugar

Tools

Cookie cutter heart

How to prepare sweet puff pastry hearts

Start preparing the sweet puff pastry hearts by cleaning the strawberries and slicing them lengthwise.
Pour the Philadelphia cheese into a bowl and work it with a teaspoon,
add the powdered sugar,
the vanilla extract and
mix everything until you get a smooth cream,
then transfer it into a piping bag.
Unroll the puff pastry and use a cookie cutter to cut out hearts,
place them on the baking sheet and with a smaller heart-shaped cookie cutter, mark the hearts without cutting through, creating a border.
Use the piping bag to place the sweet cream cheese in the center of each heart.
Arrange the strawberry slices on top of the cheese, following the shape of the heart, and dust
dust with powdered sugar,
bake in a preheated static oven at 356°F for 20 minutes. Once the puff pastry hearts are ready, remove them from the oven and let them cool before serving.