Strawberry Cream Cheese Heart Pastries

These Strawberry Cream Cheese Heart Cakes are the perfect sweet treats for my lovelies!

These puff pastry hearts look fancy, but they’re actually not that hard to make. The key is frozen puff pastry.You also need two heart-shaped cookie cutters, one large and one small. Use the large one to cut large hearts out of the pastry sheets, and then use the smaller one to cut small hearts out of the middle of half of the large ones. That makes a small bowl at the top of each puff pastry to hold the filling.

Speaking of the filling, it’s a simple mixture of cream cheese, sugar, strawberry jam, and vanilla extract. Simply place a tablespoon in the center of each heart-shaped opening and add a few strawberry slices on top.

Then give the hearts a good coating of beaten egg and bake until golden. A drizzle of basic icing sugar (powdered sugar mixed with cream) finishes them off. The finished cakes are light, tender and sweet – everything a heart should be.