Cream Cheese Puff Pastry

This is where your creativity can soar!  Yea, basic cream cheese is good but cream cheese with something in it can be outstanding.  Just go through your spice shelf and refrigerator – bacon bits, basil, black pepper, caraway, cayenne pepper, celery seed, chives, cilantro, cinnamon, crispy onions, curry, dill, olives (chopped), paprika, parsley, poppy seed, rosemary, sesame, sun dried tomatoes, tarragon, wasabi etc.  Don’t waste time with one sheet and so small an amount of cream cheese.  Go into mass production and freeze for future parties/snacks.  Just be sure to label them.

Ingredients:

  • cooking spray
  • 1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed
  • 1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
  • 1 egg, beaten

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350°.
  2. Lightly grease a baking sheet with cooking spray.
  3. Cut thawed puff pastry sheet in half. (Pinch together cracks at folds.)
  4. Cut each half into 6 small squares.
  5. Put a spoonful of cream cheese on one side of each square.
  6. Brush edges with water.
  7. Fold over diagonally to make a triangle.
  8. Press edges to seal.
  9. Transfer pastries to the prepared baking sheet.
  10. Brush beaten egg over top of the pastries to add shine.
  11. Bake in the preheated oven until top is golden, about 20 minutes.

Source: Allrecipes!

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