Cooking with Toni - Cranberry Cream Cheese Pastry Puffs

Hello all!

This holiday season I became obsessed with appetizers. Like tiny little canvases, appetizers provide outlet for one's most crazy cooking ideas. Because they're small, flavors can be intense. Also, they are much less heartbreaking to throw away if you completely mess them up!

Anyway, I will be sharing a bunch of these fun recipes I made up, but today I want to share with you, one of my favorites (just invented today) The Cranberry Cream Cheese Pastry Puff (with pictures!)

Ok, here is what you need:
1/4 cup honey
1/2 cup fresh cranberries (you can do this with frozen, but it doesn't taste as good)
1/4 cup of cream cheese
1 sheet of puff pastry, thawed.

Directions:

Take your honey and put it in a saucepan on medium low. When it begins to simmer gently, add the cranberries. Let this mixture cook at medium low until the cranberries begin to cook down. They should all be open and soft.

Now, while this is cooking, take your thawed puff pastry sheet and roll it out a little, to make it a bit bigger, and cut into twelve rectangles. Now take the cream cheese and add a gob (um, like a rounded teaspoon) on one side of the rectangle.

Now top these with the cranberry mixture

Fold these badboys over, don't seal just fold them really tight... if they come unfolded during baking, you can put them back while still hot.

Now bake at 350 for about 15-20 minutes (make sure they're golden brown and firm to the touch. If they unfolded you can reform them right out of the oven.

There you go... cream cheese pastry puffs!