Flaky Pastry Bites Sweet and Savoury with Sweet Fruit and Savoury Anchovy Filling
Flaky Pastry Bites Sweet and Savoury are made with buttery puff pastry, creamy filling, and fresh fruit or anchovy topping. Perfect for easy entertaining, brunch spreads, or quick party snacks.
Pastry is baked food made with a dough of flour, water, and shortening that may be savory or sweetened. Sweetened pastries are often described as bakers’ confectionery.
Why you will love and enjoy these Flaky Pastry Bites Sweet and Savoury
- You get both sweet and savoury in one easy bake
- The filling is quick to mix and easy to tweak
- They look impressive but come together fast
One pastry, two directions, zero leftovers. These went faster than expected.
Flaky Pastry Bites Sweet and Savoury
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 9 sweet and 9 savory 1x
- Category: Appetizers and Snacks
- Method: Easy baking
Description
These little pastry bites disappeared faster than I could plate them. One batch sweet, one batch savoury, and honestly… both are dangerously snackable.
Ingredients
Sweet Cream Cheese Filling
- 8 oz = 225 g cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1 roll butter puff pastry, thawed but cold
- Fresh fruit of choice, chopped small (berries, peaches, apples, etc.)
Savoury Filling
- About 4 oz = 125 g whipped chive cream cheese
- 5 anchovy fillets, finely chopped
- 3 anchovy fillets, cut into thirds for topping
- 1 roll butter puff pastry, thawed but cold
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 400⁰F (200⁰C). Line a baking tray with parchment paper. Keep your puff pastry in the fridge until the moment you’re ready to use it. Cold pastry is everything here or it’ll get sticky and frustrating.
Sweet cream cheese filling
- In a bowl, whip together the 225 g cream cheese, 1/4 cup sugar, and 1/2 tsp vanilla until smooth.
- It should be soft and spreadable, not stiff.
- If you’re only making one roll of sweet pastry, you’ll likely use about half this filling.
- Unroll 1 roll of butter puff pastry on the parchment it came in.
- Lightly flatten if needed, and cut into 9 equal squares.
- If the pastry starts to soften too much, pop it back in the fridge for a few minutes. It makes a big difference.
- Add about 1 to 1 1/2 tbsp of the cream cheese filling into the centre of each square.
- Top with a small spoon of chopped fresh fruit. Don’t overfill, or it’ll spill out while baking.
- Fold or shape however you like. Simple folds, pinwheels, or little parcels all work. Press edges gently so they hold.
Savoury filling
- In a small bowl, mix the 125 g whipped chive cream cheese with 5 chopped anchovy fillets. Taste it. If you like it punchier and more salty, add more anchovy.
- Repeat the same process with the second roll of puff pastry. Cut into 9 squares.
- Add about 1 tbsp of the chive cream cheese mixture to each piece.
- Top each one with a small sliver from the reserved anchovy fillets. It looks nice and gives you that extra salty bite.
- Place all pastries onto your lined tray, leaving a bit of space between them.
- Bake at 400⁰F (200⁰C) for 15 to 20 minutes until puffed up and nicely toasted. Rotate the tray halfway if your oven runs uneven.
- Let them cool for a few minutes before eating.
Notes
Created, highly modified from online recipes and made my own version (as usual), prepared, tried, and tested Esme Slabs: SA Tasty Recipes, Saffas Daily Recipes, and EsmeSalon Homemade Recipes
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 2
- Calories: 466
- Sugar: 7.4 g
- Sodium: 387.2 mg
- Fat: 34.4 g
- Saturated Fat: 10.7 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 32.6 g
- Fiber: 0.8 g
- Protein: 7.4 g
- Cholesterol: 41.3 mg
Flaky Pastry Bites are quick to prepare and even quicker to disappear. Would you go sweet or savoury
Flaky Pastry Bites Sweet and Savoury offer a simple way to create something that feels a bit elevated without extra effort. The contrast between creamy filling and crisp pastry makes each bite satisfying, while the choice of sweet fruit or savoury anchovy keeps things interesting enough to want to make them again.
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