This recipe for cream cheese pastry is one of the easiest pastries I have ever made.
Baking a cake does not a baker make! I have had this saying going through my head for a while now. It started when I mentioned to a friend that anyone can write a blog but that not everyone is a writer. When I started my blog I was a recipe provider. I wrote my own recipes down to share. I did not even take photo’s of my food! I then attended a writing workshop and I feel that it set the inner scribe in me free. I set myself a task of writing 150 words before I even started on my recipe. Sometimes it is easy, and other times I have to work on it. But I do grab my inspiration where it finds me. And so, I have taken these words out of my head and put them down here. I read a lot of blogs and the one thing I note is that I don’t think it is right to call yourself a food blogger if all you do is copy other people’s recipes, or open boxes / tins / jars and cook the ready made dish. I am not pointing fingers at anyone, but I am saying that I would like to see more inspired recipes out there. I know that the brownie is a common recipe and does not vary much, but take something simple and make it special or share a technique or take part in a challenge. Basically use your food blog to expand your horizons.
That said, every now and then I am inspired by a recipe that is not my own. The other evening Dave and I went to Erica to celebrate the recent purchase of new dishes and champagne flutes. I took along some Vergenoegd Little Flower MCC and Erica made a lamb shank pot pie. I am not a pastry fan and would rather leave it off a dish, or even set it aside. The only way I really like to eat pastry is when I bake a tart tatin. However, this cream cheese pastry really impressed me and I did not even wait 48 hours before making it myself. The original recipe can be found in the 2012 Eat In Magazine page 25.
Do you eat pastry?
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Cream Cheese Pastry
Ingredients
- 125 g butter, cubed
- 125 g flour
- 125 g cream cheese
- 1 lemon, zest only
- 5 mls poppy seeds
Method
- Using a food processor, combine the butter and the flour until it resembles breadcrumbs
- Place into a large bowl and mix in the cream cheese, lemon zest and poppy seeds until just combined
- Flatten and wrap in cling film and refrigerate for 30 minutes
- Preheat the oven to 180° Celsius
- Roll out to the shape of your pie dish and cover the pie
- Bake for 25 minutes
What I blogged:
- one year ago – pasta con gamberi | pasta with prawns
- two years ago – something sweet challenge to use apples
I am in Port Elizabeth and will return to Gordons Bay on the 18th of September – I will reply to blog comments then. This post has been scheduled in advance.
Haha I like that saying – people do tend to have such a narrow view of baking!
Loving your cream cheese pastry 🙂
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
thank you CCU 🙂
Very delicious idea:)
thank you Roger 🙂
Sounds and looks delicious, Tandy!
I love the use you make of your Le creusets 🙂
they were a lovely gift I try and use often 🙂
Oh what a fantastic pasty recipe Tandy!
🙂 Mandy
thank you Mandy – not my own though 🙂
This sounds too delicious, Tandy. Thanks for the recipe. Your photo is gorgeous. Those Le Creusets are very photogenic. 🙂
and I am playing around with photoshop a bit 🙂
I do love a cream cheese pastry and I have made that very pastry from Eat In magazine myself and remember it being delicious. I do think that Dan Lepard’s recipe has the edge though http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2007/nov/24/foodanddrink.baking47?INTCMP=SRCH . This is my go to pie crust recipe. I do love the addition of lemon zest and poppy seeds in yours though.
I shall have to give his one a go 🙂
I absolutely eat pastry! This looks great!
thank you!
I adore pastry but have never eaten one quite like this – one to make when I am back home!
your at home list is going to grow a lot I hope 🙂
This recipe sounds wounderful, & what a bonus it does not have egg. I am going to try it over a vegetable & lentil curry//
that sounds yummy Usha, please let me know what you think of it 🙂
Hi Tandy, interesting to hear how you write, I’ve been thinking about trying to find a course here, just to get some tips and ideas, I must get onto it!
and I love pastry…… and I’m loving the idea of cream cheese pastry !
there are great courses one can do in writing, but the best thing I found was to just sit down each day and set a target 🙂
Mm, I love the lemon-poppy infusion to this!
and strangely, I am not a huge poppy seed fan, but it just seemed right 🙂
Do I like pastry?… Tandy I’d like to be wrapped in it!
Yes indeedy I like the good stuff.
I shall try and imagine that!
A stunning creation! I love it! So tasty too!
thank you Sophie 🙂
Nice one T, would love to taste with the zest and poppy seed. I propose a supper; I will use the tagine and you can bring the pastry 🙂 What do you think?
I found an excellent rolling mat in Strand of all places yesterday, at the Bakers Friend shop. Silicone and non-slip, absolutely legendary!
awesome! Dinner sounds good 🙂