Baking Instructions

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Mix together cream cheese, granulated sugar, and vanilla extract. Set aside.
• Wash and slice strawberries. Set aside. (I used a small heart cookie cutter to slice my strawberries).
• Unfold pastry and gently roll out creases.
• Use a heart cookie cutter to cut out hearts. Using a smaller cookie cutter, or a knife, make a smaller heart indent (not cutting all the way through) inside the larger heart.
• Brush the outer edge of the hearts with beaten egg.
• Spoon about ½ tablespoon cream cheese mixture onto the smaller heart, leaving the border around the edge.
• Top cream cheese mixture with a slice or two of strawberries.
• Bake for 15-18 minutes, or until pastry is golden brown.
• Let danishes cool slightly and dust with powdered sugar.
• Best served on the day they are made, either warm or room temperature.