Delicious Strawberry Jalapeno Fruit Spread Danish pastry great for the start of the day or as snack any time of the day.
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My favorite breakfast pastry is Danish pastry. When I go out I buy from the bakeries, otherwise I love to make at comfort of my kitchen. You can make good Danish pastries if you have a good batch of fruit spread. My daughter love Smucker’s strawberry jam. So I made this strawberry Jalapeno Fruit spread Danish.
Making homemade pastries are my weakness; always try to make it at home. I have made croissants and pain au chocolat and Plantain Jalousie. This time I got a chance to try Smucker’s Fruit & Honey Strawberry Jalapeno Fruit Spread which is Smucker’s new product, so decided to make this Strawberry Jalapeno fruit spread Danish.
Do you know Puff pastry and Danish pastry are not the same? Puff pastry does not contain egg where as Danish pastry contains eggs. Also Danish pastry is a result of a mistake by a French baker who forgot to add butter in the dough, so did folding it in later to try to cover up his mistake. He ended up with light dough that traveled the globe. Danish is less flaky than the puff pastry but you can fill them with custard, jam fruit spread like Fruit & Honey Strawberry Jalapeno Fruit Spread.
For making this delicious treat first you need to grab Fruit & Honey Strawberry Jalapeno Fruit Spread from your local Wal-Mart. You can find them in Jam and Jelly aisle where you can find other interesting flavors of jam and fruit spread from Smucker’s.
Day before you are planning to make the Strawberry Jalapeno fruit spread Danish you need to make the dough and next morning try to incorporate the butter and finish making Danish pastry dough. Then when you are ready to bake fill the pastries with strawberry jalapeno fruit spread along with or without cream cheese filling. I made few fun shaped Danish pastries, a pin wheel, au violent and square. My kids loved it.
I like the taste Fruit & Honey Strawberry Jalapeno Fruit Spread perfect balance of heat from the jalapeno and sweet strawberries further more it is naturally sweetened with honey. You can feel the kick on every bite.
Making homemade Danish pastries require some work still worth the effort in the end. That is what our mom and grand mom did while we are growing up.
This Danish pastry dough is perfect smooth and flaky, which enhance the sweetness of Fruit spread very nicely. Give it a try your family will love it just like mine.
Delicious home made danish pastries made with strawberry jalapeno fruit spread.
Ingredients
- All-purpose flour, for dusting
- ½ recipe Danish Dough
- Strawberry Jalapeno fruit spread, for filling
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 4 ounce cream cheese
- 2 tablespoon powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoon heavy cream
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- In a bowl add soften cream cheese, powdered sugar, heavy cream and vanilla extract
- and mix well and set aside, this is your cream cheese filling.
- Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside. In a lightly floured work surface roll out the dough to just over a 13-inch square, a little over ¼ inch thick. Using a ruler and a pizza wheel or pastry cutter, trim the edges of the dough to form a 12-inch rectangle. Then cut the dough into 4-inch squares.
- Cut squares three-quarters of the way from each corner towards the center.
- Fold every other point towards the center and press to seal like this
- Fill the center of each pinwheel with 1 teaspoon strawberry jalapeno fruit spread.
- Place the pinwheels on the prepared baking sheets. Cover with plastic wrap, and let rest in a warm place until dough is doubled in bulk, about 20-25 minutes.
- Take a square of pastry and fold each point into the middle.
- Press lightly to seal., fill , proof and do egg wash, and bake.
- Take a 4 inch square dough,
- Fold each square in half diagonally to form a triangle.
- With a knife cut a strip ½ in wide long the two short sides.
- If the triangle, starting at the folded edge and stopping about ¾ in from the opposite corner.
- Unfold the square.
- Fold each cut strip to the opposite side to make a diamond shaped pastry with a raised border all around.
- Fill the pastry with cream cheese filling and then strawberry jalapeno fruit spread
- While the pastries are proofing pre-heat the oven to 375F . Do an egg wash
- Pastries are best on the day of bake. If you want you can refrigerate them by individually wrapping them plastic wrap or freeze them for few days.
- Enjoy
Notes
Author: Swathi ( Ambujom Saraswathy)
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This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Ms Bobbye Wiley says
Would love to be included in your mailing..ran across this on Facebook and it REALLY looked interesting!!
Thanks! Ms Bobbye Wiley
Swathi says
Sure I will add you to the list.
mandy whalen says
I just used the Fruit and Honey Strawberry Jalapeno with Salmon Steaks and was delicious. I will try this but I think I am going to cheat, as I do not roll pastry well. I will us Pillsbury Crescent rolls that comes in a sheet instead of triangles.
Swathi says
Yes you can use Pillsbury crescent rolls that will be good this strawberry jalapeno jam is so good on pastries.
mjskitchen says
You make one hell of a pastry my dear. Love these little bites of goodness and the jam is perfect!
Swathi says
Thanks MJ, I love making pastries.
Suja Manoj says
Love danish pastries, looks so good,yum
shibani says
Awesome treat...
Helen @ Fuss Free Flavours says
That strawberry and jalapeño preserve sounds really tasty. Great idea for Danish pastries with a kick.
jee jee says
What makes it Danish?
Swathi says
Butter pastries
Tina Jui | The Worktop says
How interesting to learn that Danish pastry contains egg, while puff pastry does not. I never knew the difference!
maria @closetohome says
You had me at Danish but would have to try this jam first. I bet it would be great in many flavors.
Dannii @ Hungry Healthy Happy says
Little pastries like this are my weakness. I can eat so many of them. Yum!
lisa says
I have never tried to make a sweet and spicy dessert. This looks simple
Hema says
The pastries look awesome and I am loving that strawberry jalapeno spread..
JanetGoingCrazy says
What a great treat and I love the addition of the sweet and spicy! (client)
Swathi says
Glad you liked it, thanks for the opportunity.