Wisconsin Havarti and Pear Pastries

 

 

  Wisconsin Havarti and Pear Pastries
Combining sweet pears, cinnamon, and Wisconsin Havarti
cheese these puffy little pastries pack the perfect punch
of flavor!

Serves 8


INGREDIENTS:

1  sheet frozen puff pastry
For Pear Filling:
¼   cup sugar
¼ cup all-purpose flour
½  tsp cinnamon
  juice and zest of ½ lemon
2-3  medium pears, peeled and finely chopped to make 2 cups 
8 slices Wisconsin Havarti cheese

DIRECTIONS:
1.  Thaw puff pastry at room temperature for 30 minutes. 
2.  Preheat oven to 400ºF. 
3.  In small bowl, mix sugar, flour, and cinnamon. 
4.  In another small bowl, mix pears, lemon juice and zest. 
5.  Carefully unfold pastry onto a lightly floured surface. 
6.  Roll into 10 x 15-inch rectangle.  
7.  Brush lightly with water. 
8.  Combine sugar-flour and pear-lemon juice mixtures from your 2 small bowls. 
9. With the short side of the pastry facing you, spoon filling on pastry and spread         
to within 2 inches of the short sides and to the edge of the long sides.
10. Starting at the short side, roll like a jelly roll.
11. Cut roll into 8 (about 1 ½-inch) slices.
12.  Place 2 inches apart on buttered baking sheet.
13. Bake 20 minutes or until golden.
14. Remove from oven and place a Havarti slice on each pastry.
15. Return to oven just until cheese melts, about a minute.
16. Remove rolls from baking sheet and cool on wire rack.