Puff pastry braid filled with cream cheese, pears and candied fruit

Puff pastry braid filled with cream cheese, pears and candied fruit is a simple, delicious and rich cake to quickly prepare for guests for a Christmas or New Year’s dinner. It’s a cake that can be prepared in 5 minutes and ready to enjoy in half an hour. A mix similar to strudel and cheesecake which together with mixed candied fruit creates a perfect and irresistible dessert for those who love the combination of fruit and cheese.

Puff pastry braid filled with cream cheese, pears and candied fruit

Puff pastry braid filled with cream cheese, pears and candied fruit is a quick and easy dessert to prepare for Christmas or New Year's Eve. Delicious dessert with puff pastry, fruit and spreadable cream cheese.

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Total Time 35 minutes mins

Course Cakes

Cuisine Ovo-lacto vegetarianism

Servings 1 braid

Calories 500 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• 1 rectangular puff pastry roll
• 200 g of spreadable cream cheese
• 40 g white sugar
• 1 tsp potato starch
• 1 lemon organic (only the zest)
• 70 g of mixed candied fruit to taste
• 300 g pears
• some milk for the glaze

Instructions

 

Instructions Puff pastry braid filled with cream cheese, pears and candied fruit

• In a bowl, mix the spreadable cream cheese with the granulated sugar. Add the starch, lemon zest and the mixed candied fruit (set a spoonful of candied fruit aside for decoration). Mix again and set aside.
  
• Roll out the puff pastry and with a sharp knife or pastry cutter divide it into 3 equal parts following the longest edge of the rectangle. From the 2 external parts cut out strips more or less similar to each other, starting from the central part and cutting diagonally outwards. Discard some final pieces of puff pastry at both the bottom and top.
  
• Spread the central part of the pastry with the cheese mix and place the peeled and sliced ​​pears on top, overlapping each other. Fold the central part at both the top and bottom of the puff pastry, overlapping the filling. Starting from the top, overlap the side stripes. Take the first strip on the right and lay it diagonally towards the filling. Use the same method with the first strip on the right. Continue with this process until you finish all the strips. Before baking, spread the braid with some milk.
  
• Bake in a preheated static oven at 200°C for 25 – 30 minutes. Once ready, decorate with the candied fruit and a few cubes of pear and serve once the cake is warm or cold.
  

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Notes

The nutritional values are generated automatically for indicative purposes only and are therefore not completely accurate.

Nutrition

Serving: 1braidCalories: 500kcal

Keyword Christmas, Christmas cake, cream cheese, easy cake, New Year’s Eve, pears, puff pastry, puff pastry cake, simple cake

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Store in the refrigerator and eat within a short period of time as the pastry quickly loses its friability in contact with air and moist filling.

lot of love. B.

p.s. If you are looking for some other delicious dessert for Christmas or New Year’s Eve, I recommend Soft Christmas cookies with gianduia chocolate (photo below) or Super creamy, no-bake, Lotus Biscoff cheesecake (photo below).