Valentines Day Breakfast

 Everything came out well.  Jeff said the cream cheese was too much.  

• 1 (8.6 oz) sheet puff pastry
• 2 oz cream cheese, softened
• 1 1/2 Tbsp strawberry jam
• 1 drop red food coloring (or use beet powder) optional
• 2/3 cup very small diced strawberries
• 1 large egg whisked with 1 Tbsp water
• Powdered sugar, for dusting

• Thaw puff pastry according to directions on package and halfway through thawing preheat oven to 400 degrees. 
• While puff pastry is thawing, in a small bowl and using a rubber spatula, mix together cream cheese, jam and food coloring while pressing mixture along bottom and sides of bowl to smooth large lumps. 
• Transfer to refrigerator until ready to use (so it's not runny, you can flash chill in freezer if you prepared this near the end of the pastry thawing).
• Cut pastry into heart shapes using a 3-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter (space them as close together as possible so you can get as many as you can out of the sheet). 
• Transfer hearts to a baking sheet lined with a silicone liner or parchment paper, spacing 1 1/2-inches apart. 
• Using a sharp pairing knife, lightly score a heart inside of each cut-out heart coming about 1/3-inch from the edge, without cutting entirely through bottom of the dough. 
• Add 1 tsp of the cream cheese mixture to center of each heart then spread outward without covering the 1/3-inch edge. 
• Add strawberries over cream cheese layer, again without covering the edge. Using your fingertip brush the 1/3-inch edge with egg/water mixture. 
• Bake in preheated oven 14 - 15 minutes until edges are golden brown. Let cool on a wire rack then dust with powdered sugar. Serve the day they are prepared.
  
  
  From: https://www.cookingclassy.com/heart-shaped-strawberry-cream-cheese-breakfast-pastries/
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • 2 cups flour
  • 4 teaspoons baking powder
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup butter, melted
  • 1 3/4 cups buttermilk
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 2 eggs
  • 6-8 drops pink food coloring
  • chocolate syrup, fresh berries, and whipped cream (for topping)

• In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt. In a medium bowl, whisk together the butter, buttermilk, vanilla, eggs, and food coloring.
• Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, and stir until just combined (small lumps are okay). Let sit 5-10 minutes.
• While the batter is resting, heat your waffle iron. Add the batter and cook according to the waffle maker's directions. (For my waffle iron, 1 cup of batter cooked for four minutes was perfect.) Serve hot, topped with chocolate syrup, fresh berries, and whipped cream.
  https://www.somewhatsimple.com/pink-velvet-waffles/