Puff Pastry Cherry Puffs

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make cherry puffs from puff pastry? First prepare the products for the filling. Fresh cherries need to be washed beforehand, let the water drain in a colander, be sure to remove the bones. If the cherry is frozen, pitted, then it only needs to be thawed.

2. Step 2:

   

   Put the cherries in a suitable container, cover it with sugar, let it stand for 20 minutes. The cherries will release the juice, and the sugar will partially dissolve.

3. Step 3:

   

   Now boil a little cherry filling. If it is cooked in this way, it will definitely not leak out when baking our puffs. So, the cherry has already released the juice. Put it in a saucepan. Add corn or potato starch, mix thoroughly. Put the saucepan on medium heat, stirring the contents, bring it almost to a boil.

4. Step 4:

   

   Boil the mixture over low heat until it thickens to a thick jelly. Remove the saucepan from the heat and cool the cherry jelly to room temperature.

6. Step 5:

   

   Defrost the finished puff pastry at room temperature (while doing the filling). If it is packed in a plastic bag, then defrost directly in it. Or after removing the bag, cover the dough with a slightly damp towel so that the dough does not chafe. Place the thawed dough on a floured work surface. If the dough is already divided into layers, take one of them. Cover the rest with a towel again.

7. Step 6:

   

   Roll out the dough into a layer 3-4 mm thick and cut into several squares of the same size. Divide each square diagonally into two halves. On one half, make neat incisions with an ordinary knife or a pizza knife, not reaching the edge and center of the square about 8 mm. Put one tablespoon of cherry filling on the uncut part of each square. Lightly brush the edges of each square with water to make the dough stick together better.

8. Step 7:

   

   Cover the filling with the notched side of the dough and pinch the edges of the puff well. These triangles will turn out like this. Place the puffs on a baking sheet sprinkled with water (or covered with baking paper, silicone baking mat). Brush the yolk on top, a little before reaching the edge of the product, for a beautiful blush.

9. Step 8:

   

   Preheat the oven to 220-250 degrees (as indicated on the puff pastry package) and bake the products approximately 12-15 minutes. Note that ovens are baked differently, because the baking time may vary. I baked at 220 degrees. about 25 min. to a ruddy color. If you want to make them sweeter, you can sprinkle them with powdered sugar. By the way, if you plan to sprinkle puffs with powder, then it is not necessary to lubricate them with yolk before baking.