Pastry Puffs W/Sweet Cheese Filling

Submitted by Wildflour

"These are really pretty and fun to make! I love to make them for Showers and parties! The filling will remind you of cheesecake!Times do not include chilling time."

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 10
• Yields: 3 1/2 dozen

ingredients

• Pastry

• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup butter, cold, cut up
• 1⁄2 cup sour cream
• 1 egg yolk
• powdered sugar

• Cheese filling

• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 1 egg
• 1⁄2 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice or 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind

directions

1. Position knife blade in food processor. Add flour and butter and pulse 4 or 5 timestil mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
2. Add sour cream and egg.
3. Process til dough forms a ball and leaves sides of bowl.
4. Divide in half, wrap with plastic wrap, and chill 6-8 hours.
5. Roll out each ball of pastry on a lightly floured surface to an 1/8" thickness.
6. Cut pastry into 3" squares.
7. Gently press each square into a 1 3/4" muffin pan leaving corners extending beyond edge.
8. Spoon 1 teaspoons filling into each prepared shell.
9. Fold corners over filling and pinch together at the top.
10. Chill 30 minutes.
11. Bake at 375º for 20-25 minutes.
12. Remove from pan and cool on wire rack.
13. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

14. Cheese filling:

15. To make the cheesecake-like filling, beat all ingredients at medium speed til smooth and fluffy.

Reviews

[diner524]

Oh man oh man are these babies good!!!! I made these for a sweet breakfast pastry this morning and served with some fruit. I must admit that I cheated and used frozen puffed pastry that I thawed and then cut into 3 inch squares, as it was easier and might be a SI for ZWT!!! But next time would follow the quick directions for the dough!! I made 11 of the puffs, so only made 1/2 of the sweet cheese filling. I added almost 1 Tablespoon of the filling to each puff and they turned out wonderful!! No more buying them at the bakery!! Thanks Kelly for sharing this yummy recipe!!

 

[Nori M]

Delicious! There's a restaurant/bakery in the Bay Area called Fatapples and they have the best cheese puffs. Everytime I visit my family I try to make it there to buy a dozen of these yummy treats. These are totally like them. Now I don't have to travel to have them anymore. The only thing I changed- I found that 3 x 3 pastry squares was too small. I made them 4.5 x 4.5. Thank you so much for sharing!!!

 

[adopt a greyhound]

Great for breakfast, I cut the puff pastry into four and used 2 spoonfuls filling in each. 20 min. was a bit short, will do 25 min. next time and maybe use my larger muffin tin.

 

[Sherry K.]

Delicious

 

[Elizabeth S.]

What a walk down memory lane. I grew up in Berkeley and went to school down the street from the ORIGINAL Fat Albert's (copy right made them change the name in the late 80's) and probsbly had a cheese puff everyday of my school life in Jr. High yes these are just about spot on. Thank you for the memories delish!