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    Easy Homemade Strawberry Turnovers With Puff Pastry

    Published: May 14, 2023 · Modified: Mar 19, 2025 by Genevieve · This post may contain affiliate links · 10 Comments

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    Strawberry Turnovers with Piecrust are the easiest turnovers to make. Made with puff pasty, fresh strawberries, egg, cream cheese, sugar, and lemon, these strawberry cream cheese turnovers are going to be an easy summer dessert recipe that you come back to again and again!

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    strawberry cream cheese turnovers

    Strawberry and cream turnovers will be the hit at all your Spring and Summer gatherings and is the perfect dessert pastry recipe for celebrating Memorial Day! Strawberry Puff Pastry Turnovers are addictive! You'll come back for more.

    This strawberry turnover recipe can be paired with this my Blueberry and Peach Vodka Spritzer or my Asparagus Puff Pastry appetizer. Want a pasta recipe to go with these delicious recipes? Check out my Creamy Lemon and Chicken Pasta want more dessert? Check out my Homemade Oreo Ice Cream Recipe Strawberry turnovers with pie crust is a zesty strawberry dessert!

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    • 🍓Ingredients For Easy Strawberry Turnovers
    • 🍓How To Make Strawberry Turnovers Puff Pastry Recipe
    • 🍓Storage Tips For Strawberry Puff Pastry Turnover
    • Strawberry Turnovers Fun Facts
    • Variations For Fresh Strawberry Turnovers
    • 🍓 More Dessert Recipes
    • 🍓 Pin This Recipe For Later
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    • 🍓Storage Tips For Strawberry Puff Pastry Turnover
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    🍓Ingredients For Easy Strawberry Turnovers

    Ingredients for Strawberry Turnovers, lemon, sugar, cream cheese, puff pastry, egg, fresh strawberries
    All you need are a few ingredients for this easy strawberry turnovers recipe

    Puff pastry strawberry turnovers ingredients:

    • Fresh ripe Strawberries, hulled and halved
    • Thawed Puff Pastry Sheets
    • Egg
    • Softened Cream Cheese
    • Sugar
    • Lemon juice, lemon zest
    • Vanilla Extract
    • Stand Mixer
    • Baking Sheet lined with parchment paper or baking liner

    See recipe card below for quantities

    🍓How To Make Strawberry Turnovers Puff Pastry Recipe

    a baked strawberry puff pastry with lemon zest, cream cheese, on parchment paper on a marble back drop
    how to make strawberry turnovers

    Puff Pastry Turnovers are super easy to make. All you need is your thawed puff pastry dough and other ingredients as well as a stand mixer and a baking sheet and you are an hour away from delicious homemade strawberry turnovers.

    Strawberry turnovers with cream cheese take minimal time so let's get started!

    Instructions for recipe for strawberry turnovers.

    Step 1: Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with a silicone baking mat.

    Thawed puff pastry on a parchment lined baking sheet
    Make sure to thaw your puff pastry completely before making this recipe.

    Step 2: Now we are going to make our "puff pastry boat" for the strawberries to sit in. Lay puff pastry out on the prepared baking sheet. Fold edges up to create a ½-inch wide border. Prick the inside base of dough completely with a fork.

    puff pastry boat ready for the oven
    Simply pinch the edges of the puff pastry to form a puff pastry boat

    Make sure to prick the entire dough of the puff pastry. This ensures the dough will cook properly.

    using a fork to prick the dough of the puff pastry
    Pricking the dough creates air holes so the puff pastry will cook properly
    pricked puff pastry dough
    letting in air-holes in the dough will help us later in this recipe

    Step 3: Bake in the preheated oven until golden and puffed, about 10 minutes. Press the puffed center down with the back of a fork to deflate.

    deflate your puff pastry using a fork
    deflate the puff pastry

    Step 4: In a stand mixer, add the softened cream cheese, lemon juice, tablespoon vanilla extract, egg, and sugar. Mix on the low setting until well combined.

    add the softened cream cheese, egg, vanilla extract and sugar to stand mixer glass bowl
    fruit pastry filling recipe

    Step 5: Add in the lemon zest and mix again filling is creamy and smooth.

    in a stand mixer mix cream cheese batter for strawberry turnovers
    how to make strawberry turnovers

    Step 6: Carefully pour a layer of the strawberry turnover filling homemade strawberry filling evenly into pastry shell  You can also add a top layer of lemon zest. This makes the strawberry turnovers even tastier.

    cooked puff pastry boat on a baking sheet filled with cream cheese filling for strawberry turnovers
    strawberry turnovers phyllo dough

    Step 7: Arrange berries cut side down, you can alternate these as well. Brush egg wash on the outer crust of the puff pastry. After a layer of strawberries is placed on the prepared puff pastry, you are ready to bake on the lined baking sheet.

    halved strawberries on a cream cheese puff pastry boat on a lined baking sheet
    Strawberry pastry

    Step 8: Bake in a preheated oven at 400 degrees for 15 minutes or until the sides of the phyllo dough is flaky puff pastry golden brown. Add more fresh lemon zest. Let cool for 10 minutes before slicing.

    a baked strawberry puff pastry with lemon zest, cream cheese, on parchment paper on a marble back drop
    how to make strawberry turnovers

    Slice puff turnovers and enjoy! These make delicious strawberry turnovers.

    sliced strawberry turnovers with puff pastry and cream filling with lemon zest and parchment paper on a marble back drop.
    strawberry cream cheese turnovers

    🍓Storage Tips For Strawberry Puff Pastry Turnover

    The best way to store strawberry turnovers phyllo dough is to store in a glass airtight container on the kitchen counter for up to two days. If you store them in the fridge, the puff pasty can dry out. Make you enjoy these fruit pastry filling recipe in two days or freeze.

    Pro Tips for strawberry and cream cheese turnovers: You can also make these strawberry pastries with strawberry rhubarb turnovers for an extra tart treat!

    If you want these extra sweet, you can add a cup of powdered sugar (but I don't suggest it) these are sweet enough on their own and healthier without the added sugar.

    Strawberry pastry puff pasty with fruit filling is the best strawberry turnover recipe!

    baked strawberry turnover on parchment paper on a marble back drop
    strawberry turnovers with puff pastry

    These are the best easy strawberry turnovers and you can share the joy and make a batch for your friends, family, and neighbors! Celebrate Memorial Day with this easy strawberry dessert recipe!

    Strawberry Turnovers Fun Facts

    Turnover Fun Facts: Turnovers come from the French and date all the way back to 1630 in St. Calais, in the Sarthe region of France.

    • Turnovers originated in ancient times and are classified as “portable pies.”
    • Common turnover fillings include fruits such as apples, blueberries, and cherries, meats like chicken, beef, and pork, vegetables such as sweet potatoes, and savory ingredients like cheese. Think of them as mini pies!
    sliced strawberry turnovers
    crispy strawberry turnovers hot of the oven!

    Variations For Fresh Strawberry Turnovers

    • You can use frozen strawberries for this recipe
    • Add a dollop of fresh whipped cream to take these up a notch
    • Add orange zest or even fresh blackberries, blueberries, and cherries, and turn these into fruit turnovers.
    • Strawberry season is here!

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    Strawberry Turnovers

    Genevieve Jerome
    Strawberry Turnovers with Piecrust are the easiest turnovers to make. Made with puff pasty, fresh strawberries, egg, cream cheese, sugar, and lemon, these strawberry cream cheese turnovers are going to be an easy summer dessert recipe that you come back to again and again!
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    Prep Time 15 minutes mins
    Cook Time 15 minutes mins
    Total Time 30 minutes mins
    Course Dessert, Desserts, Healthy Desserts, breakfast, puff pastry desserts, strawberry desserts
    Cuisine American
    Servings 6 people
    Calories 537 kcal

    Equipment

    • Stand Mixer

    Ingredients
      

    • 1 pound fresh strawberries, hulled and halved
    • 1 package Thawed puff pastry
    • 1 brick cream cheese, softened
    • 2 large eggs, reserve one for egg wash
    • ¼ cup Sugar
    • 1 tablespoon Vanilla Extract
    • 1 lemon juiced and zested
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    Instructions
     

    • Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with a silicone baking mat.
    • Wash, hull and slice the strawberries into quarters or halves.
    • Now we are going to make our "puff pastry boat" for the asparagus to sit in. Lay puff pastry out on the prepared baking sheet. Fold edges up to create a ½-inch wide border. Prick the inside base of dough completely with a fork
    • Bake in the preheated oven until golden and puffed, about 10 minutes. Press the puffed center down with the back of a fork to deflate. 
    • In a stand mixer, add the softened cream cheese, tablespoon vanilla extract, egg, and sugar. Mix on the low setting until well combined. 
    • Add in the lemon zest and mix again filling is creamy and smooth. 
    • Carefully pour a layer of the strawberry turnover filling homemade strawberry filling evenly into pastry shell  You can also add a top layer of lemon zest. This makes the strawberry turnovers even tastier.
    • Arrange berries cut side down, you can alternate these as well. After a layer of strawberries is placed on the prepared puff pastry, you are ready to bake on the lined baking sheet.
    • Brush eggwash on the sides of the puff pastry. This will ensure the dough is nice and golden brown.
    • Bake in a preheated oven at 400 degrees for 15 minutes or until the sides of the phyllo dough is flaky puff pastry. Let cook for 10 minutes before slicing. 

    Notes

    🍓Storage Tips For Strawberry Puff Pastry Turnover

    The best way to store strawberry turnovers phyllo dough is to store in a glass airtight container on the kitchen counter for up to two days. If you store them in the fridge, the puff pasty can dry out. Make you enjoy these fruit pastry filling recipe in two days or freeze.
    Pro Tips for strawberry and cream cheese turnovers: You can also make these strawberry pastries with strawberry rhubarb turnovers for an extra tart treat!
    If you want these really, really sweet, you can add a cup powdered sugar (but I don't suggest it) these are sweet enough on their own and healthier without the added sugar.
    Strawberry pastry puff pasty with fruit filling is the best strawberry turnover recipe!
    Turnover Fun Facts: A turnover is a type of pastry made by placing a filling on a piece of dough, folding the dough over, and sealing it. Turnovers can be sweet or savory and are often made as a sort of portable meal or dessert, similar to a sandwich.
    • Turnovers originated in ancient times and are classified as “portable pies.”
    • Common turnovers fillings include fruits such as apples, blueberries and cherries, meats like chicken, beef and pork, vegetables such as sweet potatoes, and savory ingredients like cheese.
     
    All images and text © Genevieve Jerome / Fitty Foodlicious 2023 

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1sliceCalories: 537kcalCarbohydrates: 51gProtein: 9gFat: 33gSaturated Fat: 8gPolyunsaturated Fat: 4gMonounsaturated Fat: 18gTrans Fat: 0.01gCholesterol: 62mgSodium: 229mgPotassium: 194mgFiber: 3gSugar: 13gVitamin A: 102IUVitamin C: 45mgCalcium: 30mgIron: 3mg
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    Comments

    1. Susan

      May 30, 2023 at 3:39 am

      #3 includes asparagus. Really?

      Reply
      • Genevieve

        June 08, 2023 at 8:36 pm

        No that was a typo Susan lol thanks for catching it and enjoy recipe!

        Reply
        • Susan

          July 21, 2023 at 3:41 am

          I wonder if #3 could be corrected?

          Reply
          • Genevieve

            July 28, 2023 at 10:24 pm

            Hi Susan! Corrected how? That's the correct step.

            Reply
    2. Barbara

      July 04, 2023 at 12:37 pm

      is it puff pastry or phyllo?

      Reply
      • Genevieve

        July 19, 2023 at 9:57 pm

        Hi Barbara, it's puff pastry dough. I hope that helps. 🙂

        Reply
    3. Liz

      April 01, 2025 at 8:49 pm

      5 stars
      My family went crazy for these turnovers! I can't wait to make them again with local summer berries!

      Reply
    4. Juyali

      April 02, 2025 at 6:25 am

      5 stars
      Made these with my kids using strawberries from the farmers market—really easy and fun to put together. The lemony cream cheese filling was so good!

      Reply
    5. Andrea

      April 02, 2025 at 7:35 am

      5 stars
      Had some strawberries, so I gave this a try—came out creamy, and yummy!

      Reply
    6. Krystle

      April 02, 2025 at 10:22 pm

      5 stars
      I love the contrast between the crunchy pastry and the creamy filling, we loved it!

      Reply
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