Prepare-ahead breakfast pastries

Name: Prepare-ahead breakfast pastries
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 18 min
Total time: 48 min
Ingredients: 100 g/3½ oz/scant ½ cup mascarpone cheese; 320 g/11 oz sheet ready rolled puff pastry; 1 egg yolk, mixed with 1 tbsp milk (egg wash); 1 egg yolk, mixed with 1 tbsp milk (egg wash); 3 tbsp of your favourite fruit jam (jelly); 3 tbsp of your favourite fruit jam (jelly); 1 tsp vanilla bean paste; 1 tbsp maple syrup or honey; 1 tbsp maple syrup or honey; 40 g/1½ oz/scant ¼ cup caster (superfine) sugar; 2 tbsp flaked (slivered) almonds (optional); 3 tbsp icing (confectioners’) sugar, plus extra for dusting

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
50 min

Appears in

The Flexible Baker

By Jo Pratt

Published 2022

About

These are the perfect make-ahead breakfast that can be stored in the freezer so you can enjoy freshly baked pastries whenever you like. Made with individual portions of puff pastry, layer of sweetened cream cheese and a dollop of your chosen jam, they are a quick to make, quick to cook and especially quick to eat!

Ingredients

320 g/11 oz sheet ready rolled puff pastry
100 g/3½

Pie
Breakfast
Vegetarian

Method

Line a baking tray that will fit in your freezer with baking parchment. Unroll the pastry and cut into 12 squares, then transfer the pastry to the baking tray and make a start on the filling.

Beat together the mascarpone, sugar, maple syrup or honey and vanilla until completely smooth. Transfer to a piping bag and pipe about 1 tablespoon in the middle of each pastry square. Alternativel