Heart-Shaped Sweet Cheese Desserts

Coeurs à la Crème

Preparation info
  • Makes

    6

    Dessert Servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Glorious French Food

By James Peterson

Published 2002

  • About

You can make these very tasty and romantic little desserts, which are perfect for Valentine’s Day, by just combining fresh cheese or cream cheese with vanilla, sugar, and whipped cream and allowing the mixture to drain and stiffen. The result is a little like traditional Jewish cheesecake filling, but much lighter. The problem is getting the delicious cheese mixture into a heart shape. The standard solution is to drain the cheese in individual heart-shaped cheesecloth-lined porcelain molds