Puff pastry cake with cream and strawberries

This puff pastry cake with cream and strawberries is one of those combinations in which flavor is wasted in a dessert that you can prepare in a matter of minutes.

One of the advantages is that as it is based on puff pastry you can easily make it at home and have it stored to prepare this cake on any occasion.

This will save you a lot of time. In addition, the filling can vary according to the ingredients you have.

So don't wait any longer and learn how to prepare this puff pastry cake with cream and strawberries in which you will combine textures and flavors to give the dessert a special touch.

You will be surprised how quick and easy this preparation is. I do not take more time from you and I leave you the details below.

Ingredients

• 600 milliliters of cream

• 2 sheets of puff pastry

• 6 tablespoons sugar

• 1 kilo of strawberries

• 1 tablespoon cream cheese

• 1 egg

• 2 tablespoons of the jam of your choice

Steps to make a puff pastry cake with cream and strawberries

1. The first thing you should do is prepare a flat surface on which you will work the flexible dough.

2. Do not forget to flour a little so that it does not stick.

3. Roll out the puff pastry with the help of a rolling pin to make it thinner.

4. With the assembled rectangle add a little sugar and roll again. Cut into rectangles of similar size or into equal shapes.

5. Then, with a fork, prick it so that it will not rise while it cooks.

6. Beat the egg and apply with a brush on the dough before taking the oven. You can take advantage of putting the two sheets at 180 °C for 15 minutes.

7. The time may vary according to the thickness you have left them. Try to be as even as possible.

8. As the puff pastry cooks, you can prepare the cream that will be the filling.

9. To do this, you must beat the cream with the sugar until you see that it is firm.

10. Do not worry if you still do not get this texture completely, since when you add the cream cheese, the mixture will be denser.

11. Next, it's time to wash the strawberries and slice them. The amount and thickness will depend on your personal taste.

12. Save a few strawberries, for decoration, preferably the largest and most beautiful.

13. When the figures have come out of the oven, let them cool slightly before continuing.

14. The assembly will be in layers. So you must place a sheet of puff pastry, add the cream, strawberries, another layer of cream and another layer of puff pastry.

15. Finish with a layer of cream on the second layer of flexible dough and add the strawberries that you had saved for decoration.

16. After the dessert, put in the fridge for 45 minutes to 1 hour to cool and the layers are more compact.

17. At the end of time, serve fresh from the fridge accompanied by a little jam and here you go! A puff pastry cake with cream and strawberries.

This recipe is very practical to prepare for birthdays. You just have to consider that the flexible dough sheet should be the size of the dessert.

You can even make servings much smaller, so it's about one bite per person.

Everything will depend on the meeting and what you want to present, a complete cake, small appetizers or already established portions.

Remember that you can change the fruit for the one you have at the moment or chop a bit of various fruits to make a kind of cocktail.

Go ahead and share your results with those closest to you. Do not forget to have on hand the recipe that you will surely be asked for.