Easy Strawberry Napoleon with Lemon Mascarpone Cream
After a day of strawberry picking, I have made, pies, and jams with the million strawberries that followed us home. I think next is strawberry margaritas! So I was trying to come up with a dessert that was easy and involved fresh strawberries. So I came up with this.
I love desserts, but they can get complicated. I usually do those kinds of cakes and cookies during the holidays when there is time to spare. However, sometimes you just want to throw something together for a fun dessert everyone will love without to much fuss. This is super easy, and it looks just so appetizing! Plus it really is good!
I got about 10 beautiful stacks from this recipe. It is really going to depend on how symetrical your puff pastry squares come out. I didn’t worry about it to much. I just made sure I stacked the evenish ones together. I just spread the cream with a butter knife! They don’t look perfect, so I guess we’ll call them “rustic.”
Easy Strawberry Napoleon with Lemon Mascarpone Cream
Ingredients
- 2 pints fresh stawberries may need a little more or less depending on size
- 1 sheet puff pasttry
- 1 8 ounce container mascarpone cheese
- 1/2 cup Lemon curd
- powdered sugar for sprinkling on top
- mint leaves for garnish
- l lemon zest for garnish
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.
- Defrost your puff pastry sheet according to package directions.
- On a floured surface, roll out the puff pastry sheet into a large rectangle and cut into 16 square (roughly the same size).
- Spread the squares out onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake the squares at 400 degrees for 15 minutes, until they are golden brown and have puffed up.
- While the squares are baking, make the cream. Add the mascarpone and lemon curd to a small bowl.
- Mix together until creamy. That's it!
- Wash and cut the green tops off the strawberries.
- Once the squares have baked, remove them from the oven to cool.
- Once cooled, cut all the squares in half. Spread the cream on one piece, then add sliced strawberries. Repeat the process so you have three layers.
- Repeat until no squares remain.
- Add the napoleons to a serving dish. Top with powdered sugar, lemon zest and mint.
- Yum!
