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Heart-Shaped Cheese Danish

⏱ Prep 15 min 🔥 Cook 20 min 🍽 Serves — 📅 2026-02-01

These heart-shaped cheese danishes look bakery-made but are surprisingly easy to create at home. Flaky puff pastry filled with sweet cream cheese and strawberry jelly makes the perfect Valentine's Day treat.

Steps

  1. Preheat oven according to puff pastry package directions
  2. Cut puff pastry into heart shapes
  3. Mix softened cream cheese with sugar to taste
  4. Place cream cheese mixture in center of each pastry heart
  5. Add a dollop of strawberry jelly on top of cream cheese
  6. Whisk together egg and milk to make egg wash
  7. Brush egg wash over pastry edges
  8. Bake until golden and puffed

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