A delicious treat for breakfast or dessert!
Ingredients:
1 bag of frozen unsweetened dark sweet cherries ( make sure you do not buy tart)
1 tablespoon raw sugar
3 oz. cream cheese
1 tablespoon (maybe a touch more) pure almond extract
sliced almonds
1 sheet puffed pastry dough
- Thaw cherries
- Thaw puffed pastry
- Heat oven to 400 degrees
- Soften cream cheese ( in microwave if preferred for 20-30 seconds)
- Cut cherries in halves
- Add sugar to cherries and mix
- In a separate bowl, add cream cheese and almond extract, combine
- Mix cherry mixture with cream cheese mixture
- Add in almonds ( just enough to give the mixture crunch, not the entire small bag) maybe 2 tablespoons
- Cut pastry dough into 6 or 9 squares squares
- Fill pastry dough with mixture
- Add a little sugar in the raw on top of each pastry
- Place on cookie sheet and bake for 15-18 minutes
