Better than Boxed Strawberry Cream Cheese Toaster Strudel
One bite of these strawberry cream cheese Toaster Strudels and you'll forever say goodbye to those frozen boxed ones. Made with a quick homemade puff pastry and filled with strawberry jam and cream cheese and drizzled with icing.
Ingredients
Blitz Pastry
- 11/4 cup all purpose flour
- 8 tbsp butter cubed
- pinch salt
- 4-6 tablespoon cold water
Strawberry Cream cheese filling
- 2 tablespoon strawberry jam
- 2 tablespoon Cream cheese
- 1 teaspoon sugar
Icing
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoon milk
Egg wash
- 1 egg whisked
Instructions
Blitz Pastry
- In a medium-sized bowl, combine the flour and cold butter together and blend it with your hands until the butter slowly blends into the flour.
- Add a tablespoon of cold water at a time until the dough starts forming together.
- Form the dough into a square shape. Wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes take the dough out of the fridge and lightly flour a clean working surface. Roll the dough into a square at ¼ in thickness. Fold the dough in half and then in half again. (see photos above for details)
- Saran wrap the dough and refrigerate for 15 minutes. Complete this process two more times.
Assemble:
- Roll out the dough into ¼ in thickness and trim the sides.
- Cut the dough in half and then fill the pastry with 1 tablespoon of strawberry jam and pipe a line of cream cheese down the middle. Make sure to leave enough room on the sides to close the pastry. Whisk the egg brush it on the sides and close the pastry. and then the egg washes the top of the pastry, Refrigerate the pastry while the oven preheats.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
- Bake the strudels for 14-16 minutes or until the top is golden brown.
- Mix the powdered sugar and the water until it's a thick drizzle. Once the strudels have cooled after 5 minutes, drizzle the icing and enjoy while warm.
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