Easy Puff Pastry Cherry Turnover Recipe

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Satisfy your sweet tooth with this easy puff pastry cherry turnover recipe. Prepare as a dessert or a special treat. Great for breakfast too!

How To Satisfy A Sweet Tooth?

Satisfy your sweet tooth with this easy cherry turnover recipe using Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry Sheets. You may change up the filling to anything your little heart desires. Sometimes I will use apple or blueberry pie filling. Either way, these puff pastry turnovers are the bomb!

McDonald’s Cherry Pies

Every Spring we would look forward to heading to our local fast food chain, McDonalds, for their scrumptious cherry pie. But for some unknow reason they stopped producing it. If I remember right the last time McDonald’s had cherry pies on their menu was back in 2011. So, this recipe was created with McDonalds, early days, cherry pie in mind.

Cherry Turnover Recipe

Make this one of your new go-to quick and easy recipes. It yields 8 light, fluffy turnovers filled with cherry pie filling then drizzled with a sweet icing.

Ingredients:

• 1 box Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry Sheets
• 20 ounce can cherry pie filling
• 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
• 1/2 cup flour (for dusting)
• 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 2 Tablespoons milk
• 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Instructions:

Thaw Pastry Sheets

Remove puff pastry from box and allow to thaw at room temperature for approximately 30 minutes.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.

Prepare Filling

Place cherry pie filling in a medium bowl. Add almond extract. Stir until well combined and set aside.

Roll Out Pastry Sheet

Unfold pastry sheet on a lightly floured surface. The pastry sheet will have two fold lines. If needed be, gently smooth out folds by using your index finger and rubbing it over the fold in a circular motion until smooth. Then add a splash of flour to the top of the pastry and begin rolling out.

Cutting Pastry Sheet

Using a sharp knife, gently make two cuts into the pastry sheet to make four squares.

Fill Pastry Sheets

Place two tablespoons of pie filling in center of pastry sheet. Be careful not to over fill as the filling may escape during baking.

Take one corner of the pastry sheet and fold it over the filling to make a triangle. Use a fork to press and seal the edges of each turnover. Place turnovers on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. I like to use the parchment paper because sometimes the filling will seep out and it just makes for easy cleanup.

Bake

Bake turnovers for 20 – 25 minutes or until slightly or lightly browned and the pastry has that puffed look.

Icing

Although this cherry turnover recipe looks and tastes better with icing, it is optional.

In a small bowl add powdered sugar, milk and vanilla extract. Stir to combine until smooth. TIP: Using a drinking glass, place a sandwich baggie in the glass allowing the opening to hang over the glass edge. Pour icing into baggie, release air and seal. Using kitchen shears cut a small corner out of the bottom of the baggie and gently pipe icing over cherry turnovers. Add as little or as much icing as desired.

Serve turnovers warm or at room temperature. These turnovers are great for a dessert after any meal and also makes a great breakfast treat too! Enjoy!

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