Easy Strawberry Pastries

Flaky crescent roll dough is wrapped around a filling of cream cheese and fresh sliced strawberries in these quick and easy Strawberry Pastries!

I have always had a fondness for cream cheese. Whether spread on a bagel as-is or jazzed up in a recipe to make it sweet or savory...if cream cheese is an ingredient, you can bet I'm going to inhale it! For example, when presented with a platter of pastries or kolaches (for those of you lucky enough to be familiar with those), I will always choose the one that includes cream cheese. So can you guess where I'm going with this today? That's right, friends...I'm stuffing cream cheese into some quick and easy Strawberry Pastries!

Shortcut Crescent Roll Dough

Sometimes simple recipes are the best...and it really doesn't get much simpler than this one!

Now y'all know that I enjoy making things from scratch but, that being said, I appreciate a good shortcut as much as the next gal. And there's no need to toil over homemade pastry dough when you have a can of ever-versatile crescent roll dough in the fridge!

The Filling

Then, of course, there's the aforementioned cream cheese filling, which includes a dollop of strawberry preserves to give it a lovely color and a hint of strawberry flavor.

Finally, there's a layer of gorgeous, thinly-sliced, fresh strawberries. They soften in the oven and meld with the cream cheese for a flavor that's a step up from your average cream cheese pastry.

How to Make Strawberry Pastries

Warm, fresh, (effortless!) Strawberry Pastries, guaranteed to garner ooohs and ahhhs from your adoring family.

These Strawberry Pastries are guaranteed to disappear  in a flash, whether that's at breakfast on a lazy Saturday morning, as part of a brunch buffet for guests, or on a breakfast-in-bed tray to celebrate a birthday or anniversary or other special occasion!

Hope you enjoy them as much as well do! 🙂

More Yummy Breakfast Treats

• French Breakfast Puffs
• Chewy No-Bake Granola Bars {with Coconut Oil}
• Cream Cheese Filled Cinnamon Roll Cups
• Classic Blueberry Muffins

Easy Strawberry Pastries

Ingredients

• 4 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
• ½ cup powdered sugar
• ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon strawberry jam or preserves
• 6 strawberries, thinly sliced
• 1 (8-ounce) can crescent rolls
• 1 tablespoon milk
• Granulated OR coarse sparkling sugar

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 375°F. In a medium bowl, use an electric mixer to beat cream cheese, powdered sugar, vanilla, and strawberry jam until smooth and creamy.
• Unroll crescent roll dough and separate into four rectangles. Press firmly along the triangle perforations to seal. Place rectangles on an ungreased baking sheet (or a baking sheet lined with parchment paper).
• Divide cream cheese mixture evenly between the four pieces of dough, spreading on one half of each rectangle and leaving a thin border around the edges. Arrange strawberry slices on top of cream cheese mixture, using about 1 ½ strawberries per pastry (or whatever fits).
• Fold dough over filling so that edges meet, and press along edges firmly with a fork to seal. Brush top of each pastry with milk and sprinkle with sugar. Using a sharp knife, cut three diagonal slits on surface of each pastry.
• Bake for 13 to 16 minutes or until pastries are a deep golden brown. Place pan on a wire rack and cool pastries for 10 minutes before removing with a spatula and serving warm.

Notes

Nutrition

Adapted from Pillsbury.com
Post originally published on June 11, 2014, and updated on July 8, 2020.

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