Cherries and cream cheese are one of my favorite dessert combinations. Combine the two with pie crust and a heart-shaped cookie cutter and you get a sweet little pastry, just perfect for a Valentine’s Day Treat for someone you love.
These were fairly easy to put together, here is how I did it:
Ingredients:
1 to 2 pkgs refrigerated pie crust (depending on how many you want to make, or you could always make your own pie crust)
1 pkg. cream cheese softened
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp. vanilla or almond extracts
1 can cherry pie filling
large heart cookie cutter
small heart cookie cutter (optional)
parchment paper
rolling-pin
½ cup powdered sugar
2-3 tsp. milk
In large bowl, combine cream cheese, 1/4 sugar, egg and vanilla or almond extract ( I used both). Set aside half of the heart cutouts for the top layer. Spread cream cheese mixture over the bottom layers of the pie crust hearts to 1/2 inch of the edge.
With rolling-pin, lightly roll out the rest of the pie crust hearts so they are slightly bigger than the bottom ones. (They need to be bigger to fit over the toppings.) If you have a smaller heart cookie cutter, you could cut out the middle so the cherries will show through.
Yummy!
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YUM!
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Yum yum! I’ll be using your recipe but using mini tart pans for itty bitty cherry tarts. Portion control, that’s the ticket! And now, I’m hungry.
Ann, sounds like a great idea- small!
Ooohh these are so cute and I bet they are yummy too! I’ve made pie pops before, and they were a little bit like this! They look like cute little bites of deliciousness!
Maria, so glad you stopped by with your sweet note for Jamie!
Yummy! I host a weekly meme called Thematic Thursday. Each week has a theme and this would be perfect for this week’s Valentine’s theme.
Diana, thanks for the heads up.
These look delicious! I love how you have a heart cutout on opt to show the beautiful cherry filling. Does anything scream valentine goody more than cherry and cream cheese? I’d like to know!!
Yum! Glad you shared this recipe at Shine on Fridays!
Thank you for sharing your sweeeet recipe at Potpourri Friday!
These look like the perfect treat! Thanks so much for sharing at Taking A Timeout Thursday!
These look amazing!! I would even eat these for a fun breakfast pastry!! Thanks so much for joining us on “Strut Your Stuff Saturday.” We loved having you and hope to see you back next Saturday with more of your recipes!! -The Sisters
Oh my gosh they are adorable and are probably insanely delicious! What a brilliant idea. Thank you for sharing – and for making me wish I had some right now!
I love this! So cute! I saw this on Skip to My Lou I would love it if you would share this with our readers too for Fun Stuff Fridays! http://www.toysinthedryer.com/2012/02/14-days-of-valentines-fun-stuff-fridays_10.html