Easy and Delicious Cream/Chocolate-Filled Puff Pastries

An elegant puff pastry dessert, these delicious pastry squares filled with chocolate, mascarpone cheese, and cream cheese are easy to make.

• Preparation Time: 25 mins
• Cooking Time: 13 mins
• Total Time: 38 mins
• Calories: 261 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon white sugar
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 1 egg, separated
• 2 ½ tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon honey (Optional)
• 1 tablespoon colored decorating sugar, or as needed
• 1 (17.25 ounce) package frozen puff pastry, defrosted
• 1 (3 ounce) package mascarpone cheese
• 1 (8 ounce) package semisweet chocolate chips, or to taste

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).

Step 2

Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, about 13 minutes.

Step 3

Unroll puff pastry onto your work surface. Cut each sheet into 9 squares using a pizza cutter, making 18 squares in all.

Step 4

Mix cream cheese, mascarpone cheese, egg yolk, flour, honey, white sugar, and vanilla extract together in a bowl. Drop a teaspoonful of filling onto each pastry square until all filling is used. Add 7 to 10 chocolate chips to each square.

Step 5

Dampen 1 side of each square with water. Stretch and fold in half. Press securely closed on all three sides.

Step 6

Place pastries close together onto a large baking sheet. Whip egg white in a small bowl. Brush onto the pastries; sprinkle with colored sugar.