Raspberry Napoleon

February 7, 2020
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This recipe for a Raspberry Napoleon has three parts to it- the puff pastry, the cream filling and the Raspberry topping. It is a simple and delicious recipe perfect for a Valentine’s Day dessert.

Ingredients

1 sheet of Puff Pastry
25-30 Raspberries
1/2 cup of Cream Cheese (I found strawberry cream cheese, but regular works too.)
1 cup of Whipped Cream
1/2 Cup of Sugar + 2 tbsp for the cream filling
1 tbsp Corn Starch
Powdered sugar for dusting

Steps

Unfold a sheet of puff pastry and using a heart shaped cookie cutter cut out 4 hearts.
Using a smaller heart shaped cutter, make a mark inside the bigger heart. Don’t cut all the way through, you’re just trying to make a marking you can see later.
Place the puff pastry hearts on a cookie sheet, lined with wax paper (not foil like I did). And bake at 425F for 10-12 minutes until golden and crispy.
In the mean time, dissolve the sugar in 2-3 tablespoons of water and bring to a bubble.
Throw in 5 or 6 raspberries and crush them so they color and flavor the syrup.
When the syrup starts boiling and thickening slightly, add a tablespoon of corn starch dissolved in a little water, let it boil a little and then lower the heat.
When the syrup is thick, turn off the heat and toss in the remaining raspberries and coat them in the syrupy goodness.
In a mixing bowl, add the cream cheese, sugar and mix well.
Fold in the whipped cream to make the filling light and fluffy.
To assemble the dessert, start by cutting out the inner heart we marked earlier…as faint as it might be it’s a good guideline.
Spoon some of the cream mix in the heart cavity and then top with the some raspberries.
Repeat the layers again.
Dust powdered sugar over the top of the raspberries and you can place the heart you cut out on top too.