I love strawberries and I find it hard to resist buying just a punnet when I visit farmers’ markets. This recipe is so easy and uses very little strawberries that you could make it 2 nights in a row if you wanted to extend your punnet.
Cooking strawberries is some kind of voodoo magic to me. The taste and fragrance of these hearts, so potent you will be amazed it’s not artificial. There is no need to add more sugar to this dish as jam is already quite sweet. I used feijoa and ginger from Peninsula Preserves that we picked up from Lyttelton Farmers Market last month.
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Strawberry Heart Puffs
Makes 2 hearts
Ingredients
1 sheet frozen puff pastry
5 strawberries
2 tablespoons jam
Butter for greasing
Optional: icing sugar for dusting
Preparation
- Lay puff pastry out the counter to defrost.
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Wash strawberries and cut the tops off. Reserve the strawberry tops for a certain pet rabbit. Cut into strawberries to 5 mm thick slices. Choose 2 same size pieces and make a few tiny cuts so that they look like hearts. Reserve for garnish.
- Butter an oven proof dish.
- When puff pastry is softened, make 2 diagonal cuts so that you have 4 triangles. Lay 2 triangles onto the greased baking sheet. Spoon jam into the centres and spread evenly leaving a 1cm margin around the outer edge of the pastry. Lay the sliced strawberries on top of the jam. Carefully lay the second sheet of puff pastry on top and use your thumb or a fork to seal the pastry edge.
- Now it’s origami time. Pick up the pointed ends of the triangle (one in each hand) and fold them back. Squeeze the heart so that the middle dents down and you have formed a heart. Put the strawberry heart garnish on top.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes until golden.
- Dust with icing sugar if you like and/or serve with ice cream.
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So, so cute!
Yum! I’ve been overdosing on strawberries with the season starting so early over here in Perth.
p.s Love your to-do-list 🙂
Thanks Emma, we currently keep a constant supply of strawberries. I adore them!
Strawberries don’t last long at our place either. Or their ‘hats’!
Oh yes please these look gorgeous!
They taste good too 🙂
Lovely, simple and very “do-able” for someone like me who is a little challenged in the dessert department! I seem to have been munching my way through a punnet of strawberries a day lately 🙂
Sue
I’m eating way too many punnets of strawberries these days too. I do hope you try this recipe. Not too much can go wrong with this. Good luck!