Easy Cherry Turnovers with Puff Pastry
These turnovers are so good that people will think you bought them from a local bakery. Except they’re super easy and ready in 20 minutes. These are the best cherry turnovers I’ve ever had and you can pretend you slaved over them if you think it will bring you and that new purse or pair of shoes you have your eye on one step closer to being a done deal. With just three key ingredients, you’ll never need to settle for store-bought again and can have warm, fresh, and homemade in minutes. Talk about a breakfast worth waking up for!
They’re what you’d get if you crossed a cherry turnover with a cream cheese danish, and we inhaled them in minutes. The batch size makes just four turnovers for built-in portion control. They’d be great for brunch or special events where you want to impress your guests, but don’t want to make anything too fussy. Just double, triple, etc. the recipe as necessary. I made them using one sheet of puff pastry, one of the best kitchen shortcuts ever.
Ingredients for Puff Pastry Cherry Turnovers
To make this easy cherry turnover recipe, you’ll need:
Puff pastry Cream cheese Cherry preserves or jam Egg Turbinado sugar Confectioners’ sugar Vanilla extract Cream or milk
How to Make Puff Pastry Cherry Turnovers
The pastry is light, flaky, tender, and slightly chewy. Biting into the sweet, plump, oven-warmed cherries, with bursts of cream cheese from the filling and glaze peeking through, makes everything in the world just stop while I savor that perfect bite. The slight tang from the simple cream cheese glaze drizzled on perfectly offsets the sweetness from the jam, and it also helps to bring out the cream cheese in the filling. Here’s how to make cherry turnovers with puff pastry: There’s a reason we scarfed these in minutes. Seriously the best turnovers I’ve ever had and way too easy!
Recipe Variations to Try
This is a super simple recipe for cherry turnovers, but there are a few elements you can tweak as desired.
Cherry preserves: May be substituted with another fruit preserve. Puff pastry: Use regular or gluten-free as needed. Cream cheese: Lite or regular will work so long as you use brick-style cream cheese. Glaze: Can be omitted, if desired.
Tips for the Best Puff Pastry Cherry Turnovers
Work quickly: Try to work through the recipe quickly so the pastry stays chilled because it will puff better in the oven. It’s like working with chilled pie dough that yields a better tasting crust when the dough stays cold. Glaze: It’s not necessary to glaze the cherry cream cheese turnovers, but glaze or frosting of any kind is never optional for me. You could also try Nutella, peanut butter-maple syrup, or salted caramel. Storage: These puff pastry turnovers are best warm and fresh from the oven, but leftovers keep up to 4 days at room temp. You may refrigerated if you’re uncomfortable storing cream cheese treats at room temp, but I personally don’t do so.
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Triple Chocolate Cherry Cake — Loaded with juicy cherries and topped with an easy homemade chocolate frosting. I used a few shortcuts in this recipe to save time, but this cake tastes completely homemade!
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