Cream Cheese and White Chocolate Pinwheels with Berries
 
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There's no better way to enjoy fresh Summer berries than these Cream Cheese and White Chocolate Pinwheels
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • ¼ Cup fresh blueberries
  • ¼ Cup fresh strawberries
  • ¼ Cup fresh raspberries
  • 1 Box of two pieces of ready to bake Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry Sheets (defrosted)
  • ½ Cup cream cheese
  • ⅓ Cup powdered sugar
  • 1 Cup white chocolate flavored almond bark
  • Cookie icing decorating tubes in desired colors (to create the "fireworks" variety)
Instructions
  1. Defrost puff pastry sheets for 40 minutes. Unfold the pastry sheets once they are partly defrosted. Thawed sheets should still be cold.
  2. After 20-30 minutes of defrosting the pastry sheets, break up the almond bark and place it in a double boiler to melt it. A double boiler is a pot with boiling water in it – with another pot inside of it used for melting candy melt or chocolate. Keep a close eye on a double boiler – too much heat can burn chocolate. For tips on using a double boiler see my post on Pepperidge Farm Sweet Rolls for a Superhero Breakfast. Just an FYI, some versions of candy melt or almond bark can also be melted in the microwave.
  3. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
  4. Using a knife cut each pastry sheet into four squares.
  5. Prepare the cream cheese by heating it in a small bowl in the microwave for 30 seconds. Add the powdered sugar and mix throughly. Feel free to add more cream cheese or powdered sugar to suit your personal taste for the balance between savory and sweetness.
  6. Use a spoon to distribute approximately one teaspoon of the sweetened cream cheese mixture onto the center of each puff pastry square.
  7. In sequential order pin the legs of the pinwheel puff pastries
  8. Leaving a 1″ circle of un-cut space in the center of each pastry square, cut outwards from the center towards all four corners of the square.
  9. Tuck the left corner of each triangular piece towards the center creating a pinwheel shape from the puff pastry. Keeping tucking corners until all four corners for each pastry have been pulled to the center.
  10. Pin the same side of each leg of the pinwheel to the middle
  11. Place your pinwheel pastries into the oven (pre-heated to 400 degrees) to bake for 6 minutes. You will add your berries of choice halfway through baking. I like to use strawberries, blueberries and raspberries.
  12. Depending upon your oven, these pastries will bake up in 12 to 15 minutes. I like to add the berries halfway through baking to help the fruit hold its shape. Pull the pastries out of the oven at the halfway point, add your berries, and then put the pastries back in the oven to bake for 6-7 additional minutes.
  13. If you’ve never used a ready-to-bake puff pastry before, just know that Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry is made with the same basic ingredients as a pie pastry, but the dough is folded multiple times to create layers. When baked, steam makes the layers rise about 8 times higher. So you get a light flaky crust every time you use it.
Recipe by Happy and Blessed Home at https://www.happyandblessedhome.com/cream-cheese-and-white-chocolate-pinwheels-with-berries/