Belfonte Dairy | From the Heart of Kansas City
Homemade Strawberry Pastries
A close-up of a sliced strawberry pastry stacked to highlight the glossy strawberry filling inside a golden, flaky crust coated with strawberry-speckled icing.

Ingredients

For Pastries

  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 cup cold butter cubed
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp vinegar
  • 5-8 tbsp ice water
  • + flour for rolling

For Strawberry Filling

  • 1 ½ cups fresh strawberries
  • ¼ cups sugar
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 tbsp cornstarch

For Egg Wash

For Glaze

Directions

For Pie Crust

  1. In a large bowl add your flour, sugar, salt, & cold cubed butter and using a pastry cutter or fork, combine it together. It will take a bit of mixing before it comes together. You can also use your hands to help break up butter.
  2. Once your mixture is combined and crumbly, add your vinegar and then your ice water 2 tbsps at a time mixing in between each one.
  3. When your dough comes together, form it into a disk and wrap in plastic wrap to chill for 30 minutes.
  4. Preheat oven to 375° F and line your baking sheets with parchment paper.

For Strawberry Filling

  1. In a sauce pan over medium heat add your strawberries and sugar and start to mash them together and let cook.
  2. Mix your lemon juice and cornstarch together and add to your mixture to help thicken it. Keep cooking until it bubbles.
  3. Once your mixture has thickened, remove from heat and let cool.
  4. On a floured surface with a rolling pin, roll out your pie dough until ¼ inch thick. Cut into squares or rectangles.
  5. Place one of your dough squares onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and fill with a spoonful of your filling.

For Egg Wash

  1. In a small bowl add your egg and heavy whipping cream and whisk together until well combined.
  2. Brush the edges with egg wash and add another dough square on top. Continue with the rest.
  3. Using a fork, crimp the edges of each pastry and then poke four holes into the middle of each pastry.
  4. Using a pastry brush, brush egg wash over your pastries and place in the oven at 375° F until golden brown. Remove from oven.

For Glaze

  1. In a bowl add your powdered sugar, heavy whipping cream and a spoonful of your strawberry filling and whisk until well combined.
  2. If glaze is too thick add more cream or a tsp of water. If it’s too thin, add more powdered sugar.
  3. Once your pastries have cooled, use a spoon to spread the glaze over your pastries.
  4. Share and Enjoy!!

Yields 8 pastries

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