Puff Pastry Parcels with Cream and Cherries

Puff pastry parcels with cream and cherries: delicious and easy to prepare!

INGREDIENTS

• 1 roll of puff pastry
• 1 can of pitted cherries in syrup
• 240ml (1 cup) of milk
• 50g (3 tbsp) of sugar
• 5g (1 ½ tbsp) of cornstarch
• 2 egg yolks
• 20g (1 ½ tbsp) of butter
• Egg wash
• Powdered sugar

METHOD

1. Preheat the oven to 190°C/374°F.

2. Heat up milk. In a saucepan whisk egg yolks with sugar and cornstarch. Slowly pour in the hot milk, while whisking constantly. Cook over medium-low heat for 5-7 minutes or until thick and bubbly. Add butter, and whisk well. Let the custard cool down completely in the fridge.

3. Roll out the sheet of puff pastry and cut it into even rectangles.

4. Pipe custard on top and place 2 cherries over it. Fold the pastry and pinch the edges together. Make small slits on top of each puff pastry rectangle and brush with egg wash.

5. Bake for 20 minutes, let cool down, and dust with powdered sugar.