
Valentines Hearts
Try this delicious recipe for Valentines Hearts. Jus-Rol puff pastry hearts, crème fraiche and fresh strawberries – ready in 20 minutes.
Quick Stats
Easy
10 servings
10 minutes bake time
Valentines Hearts
Try this delicious recipe for Valentines Hearts. Jus-Rol puff pastry hearts, crème fraiche and fresh strawberries – ready in 20 minutes.
Ingredients
- 1 Jus-Rol™ Puff pastry ready rolled sheet
- 1 egg beaten to glaze
- caster sugar sprinkled
- 1 creme fraiche
- 150g strawberries
- 50g plain chocolate
Equipment required
- Pastry Brush
- Parchment Paper
- Pastry cutters
- Knife
Techniques Used
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How to Roll Puff Pastry
How to Roll Puff Pastry
- For best results when rolling out puff pastry use a large, clean dry area of the work surface and lightly dust it with plain flour.
- Place pastry dough on surface and lightly dust it and the rolling pin with flour.
- Roll pastry firmly, always rolling away from you, give the dough 2-3 rolls.
- Then turn the dough a quarter turn.
- Dust again if necessary and continue rolling out, frequently turning the pastry so it is not always rolled in the same direction as this causes shrinkage.
- When the pastry has increased in size, pick it up to turn by rolling it round the rolling pin.
- Lift the pin with the pastry around it carefully and turn it to lay out and continue rolling. Again this is done to prevent the pastry from stretching as you lift it which in turn would result in shrinkage in baking. Puff pastry should be rolled out to approx. 4-5 mm depth.
- To re- roll puff pastry once you have cut something out from the main piece, layer up all the trimmings, folding to achieve approximately an even stack.
- Press stack lightly together with fingers.
- Then roll out as before.
Method
- Preheat oven to 220ºC (200ºC for fan assisted ovens)/Gas M 7
- Unroll pastry sheet and cut out eight hearts of the dimensions shown.
- Prick each heart with a fork, brush with beaten egg and sprinkle lightly with sugar. Place on a baking sheet and bake for approx. 10 minutes until risen and golden, allow to cool.
- Slice the strawberries, and split heart in half through it’s equator.
- Sandwich the heart together again with crème fraiche and sliced strawberries.
- Melt the chocolate and drizzle across the tops of the hearts, serve two per person with a few strawberries for garnish.
- Download the recipe for a heart shaped cutter guide you can print to help you get the dimensions just right.