Fruit and Cream Cheese Breakfast Pastries
If you've got cream cheese, puff pastry and strawberries, you're most of the way to this American breakfast: about 80 minutes of cooking across 11 steps. Below: the ingredients split into pantry staples and a quick shopping list, a built-in serving scaler, and the method in 11 steps.
You'll mainly reach for oven and baking sheet. At medium difficulty across 11 steps, it's manageable with a little attention. As written, it's meat-free.
What you'll need
Shopping list (5)
Pantry staples (you likely have these)
Diet: vegetarian — no meat or fish, based on every ingredient listed below.
Contains: Gluten Dairy
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How to make it
- Preheat oven to 400ºF (200ºC), and prepare two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- In a bowl, mix cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla until fully combined.
- Lightly flour the surface and roll out puff pastry on top to flatten.
- Cut each sheet of puff pastry into 9 equal squares.
- On the top right and bottom left of the pastry, cut an L shape approximately ½ inch (1 cm) from the edge.
- NOTE: This L shape should reach all the way down and across the square, however both L shapes should not meet at the ends. Your pastry should look like a picture frame with two corners still intact.
- Take the upper right corner and fold down towards the inner bottom corner. You will now have a diamond shape.
- Place 1 to 2 teaspoons of the cream cheese filling in the middle, then place berries on top.
- Repeat with the remaining pastry squares and place them onto the parchment covered baking sheet.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes or until pastry is golden brown and puffed.
- Enjoy!
You'll use: Oven · Baking sheet
What to serve with Fruit and Cream Cheese Breakfast Pastries
- Cream Cheese Tart Starter
- Rocky Road Fudge Dessert
- Hot Chocolate Fudge Dessert
- Vegan Chocolate Cake Vegetarian
Tips & common questions
How long does Fruit and Cream Cheese Breakfast Pastries take to make?
About 80 minutes from start to finish — an estimate based on the 11 steps and 8 ingredients. Times vary with your kitchen and how much prep you do ahead.
Can I scale this recipe up or down?
Yes — use the servings control above the ingredients and every quantity rescales automatically (fractions included). Cooking times stay roughly the same; very large batches may need a little longer.
Is Fruit and Cream Cheese Breakfast Pastries vegetarian?
Its ingredients contain no meat, fish or shellfish, so it is suitable for vegetarians. Check any cheese for animal rennet if that matters to you.
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