A high vendor once I owned my bakery was this Cheese Strudel!
Flaky puff pastry full of sweetened cream cheese bought out each Sunday!
I prefer to serve this cheese strudel heat out of the oven with cranberry compote, however any berry compote would work nice!
After all you possibly can serve it simply as is with a cup of espresso within the morning!
A easy recipe with minimal substances and a bundle of puff pastry is all you want!
Notes for Success:
Now that we’re vegan we now have to deal with our substances barely completely different
And in case you are conscious of the vegan cream cheese nightmare you understand what I imply!
To begin with vegan cream cheese is principally non existent the place I stay, in order that provides extra chaos to the equation!
To not point out I’ve solely had success with Tofutti model cream cheese in my baked recipes *not sponsored
I’ve not had success with some other model in BAKED recipes; for some cause the opposite dearer manufacturers I’ve tried have damaged down into an oily mess when baked.
Nevertheless I’ve been getting nice suggestions from many followers of my recipes they usually inform me that:
Violife now works in baked recipes!
This can be a shock to me since I had the worst outcomes with Violife in baked recipes again in 2019, Maybe they’ve since modified their system?
Additionally Miyokos authentic works out nice and the style is divine!
Cornstarch is a really troublesome ingredient to measure persistently with a quantity/spoons measure
So whereas I checklist each measures beneath I can not stress sufficient how the grams measure with a scale goes to provide the finest outcomes.
Many instances individuals have complained that their cheesecake is like rubber they usually don’t know why!
That is from a heavy measure of cornstarch when utilizing quantity measuring spoon vs the 100% correct scale measure in grams.
Final, I’m utilizing dried out cake crumbs that is an previous bakery trick to soak up any extra moisture from a delicate filling like this one
Merely toast some extra cake crumbs from a earlier venture within the oven (you solely want about ½ cup)
Alternatively you need to use bread crumbs!
CLICK HERE FOR THE YOUTUBE VIDEO FOR HOW TO MAKE THIS CHEESE STRUDEL
Yield: serves 10ppl
Cheese Strudel
Pepperidge farm Puff Pastry is by accident vegan. 1 bundle comprises 2 sheets, for this Cheese Strudel you’ll solely want 1 sheet
Prep Time
1 hour
Cook dinner Time
40 minutes
Whole Time
1 hour 40 minutes
Components
- 1/2 Package deal Vegan Puff Pastry
For the Cheese Filling:
- Vegan Cream Cheese 12 ounces (336g)
- Confectioners Sugar ½ cup (60g)
- Cornstarch 3 Tablespoons (24g)
- Vegan Butter melted 2 Tablespoons (28g)
- Vanilla Extract 1 teaspoon (5ml)
- ½ cup toasted cake crumbs *see notes
- 1 Tablespoon Simply Egg for the wash *Or your fav egg wash combination
- Granulated Sugar approx 2 teaspoons
For the Cranberry or Blueberry Compote *optionally available
- 1½ cup recent or frozen cranberries or blueberries
- 4 Tablespoons granulated sugar (50g)
- 4 Tablespoons water (60ml)
Directions
- Thaw the puff pastry in a single day within the fridge
- Put together the cheese filling by combining the vegan cream cheese with the sifted confectioners sugar & cornstarch gently with a spatula in a medium sized mixing bowl
- Add the melted vegan butter and the vanilla extract and fold collectively clean
- Put together a normal sized loaf pan with plastic wrap lining and spoon the cheese filling into that.
- Freeze for about an hour or as much as 2 however not since you don’t want a stable block, simply frozen sufficient to deal with and it’s not soupy.
- Preheat the oven to 400°F~ in case you have a convection oven setting it’s a good suggestion to make use of that.
- *Air Fryer additionally works nice with this recipe!
- Roll the puff pastry on a chunk of parchment paper on a half sheet pan barely to make it about ½” longer & wider then minimize 6 strips in a diagonal on all sides flap of the dough (the creases from the place it was frozen is an ideal indicator of tips on how to measure the middle & sides)
- Subsequent spoon the ½ cup of the toasted cake crumbs within the heart of the dough
- Place the semi frozen cheese filling on high of that after which fold up the edges of the minimize dough strips in a criss cross style
- Brush the whole high of the dough with the egg wash & sprinkle with granulated sugar & bake instantly within the preheated 400F oven for about 40 minutes
- Watch carefully to ensure the dough doesn’t burn on the highest, and you’ll cowl loosely with a chunk of tin foil to stop over browning
- The cheese filling could look barely jiggly, however it’s going to set because it cools.
- Cool earlier than reducing and serve with optionally available berry compote
- To make the berry compote mix the sugar, berries & water collectively in a small sauce pot and cook dinner over excessive warmth stirring often till it boils & the berries start to pop
- Take away from warmth, the compote will thicken because it cools
Notes
Cheese Strudel could be stored at room temperature for as much as 2 days wrapped effectively in a really cool spot.
Refrigerate for longer storage, as much as 1 week