Strawberry Cream Cheese Dessert

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Strawberry Cream Cheese Dessert is made with store-purchased ready-to-bake pie crust, sweet cream cheese filling, and canned strawberry pie filling. Talk about and easy and beautiful dessert.

Strawberry Cream Cheese Dessert Recipe

There is nothing that says SUMMER louder than a good strawberry dessert, in my opinion.

Some may call this a crostata and some may call it a galette. Whatever you call it, this dessert is the closest you can get to pie without all the working of making a pie.

This recipe is the perfect recipe for strawberry and cream cheese lovers and makes the perfect strawberry cream cheese pastry.

You can customize this fruit dessert just by changing up the variety of canned pie filling you use on top, such as cherry pie filling or blueberry pie filling.

This recipe is almost as easy as our Strawberry Crumble!

Ingredients for Strawberry Cream Cheese Dessert

• Canned strawberry pie filling: I prefer the Wilderness brand of strawberry pie filling, but use your favorite brand. And feel free to sub in other pie fillings like cherry or blueberry if that is what you have on hand.
  
• Pillsbury Pie Crust: I use the store-purchased Pillsbury brand, but you can make pie dough from scratch if you have time.
  
• Cream Cheese: You can substitute low fat cream cheese, if desired.
  
• Egg yolk
  
• Sugar
  
• Vanilla Extract

Recipe tips

Don’t worry if your dessert isn’t perfectly round. Consider this a free-form type of dessert that doesn’t need to be exact in form. I like that at a glance, you can tell it’s a homemade dessert!

How to make strawberry cream cheese dessert.

Place your cream cheese out to thaw for 30 minutes before beginning this recipe.

If you forget to soften the cream cheese on the counter ahead of time, you can unwrap it and place into the microwave.

Use the defrost setting on full power for 30 seconds to soften the cream cheese. If the cream cheese is still too chilled, repeat until nicely softened.

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.

In a large mixing bowl, using an electric mixer, beat the softened cream cheese and sugar together.

Add the egg yolk and vanilla, beating until well incorporated and the filling is smooth.

Place a sheet of parchment paper onto your work surface.

Remove the roll of pie crust dough from the packaging and unroll it onto the parchment paper.

If the pie crust dough isn’t already about 11-12 inches in circumference, use a rolling pin to roll it out to that size.

Don’t worry if it’s not perfectly round in shape, just go with it.

Spread the prepared cream cheese filling over the pie crust, leaving about a one-inch border all the way around.

Now, grab one side of the parchment paper and slide the pie crust over onto a large, rimmed baking sheet (13×18 inches in size).

Spoon the strawberry pie filling evenly over the top of the cream cheese filling.

Now, gently fold the pie dough border up and partially over the filling, forming the edge.

The center of the dessert will be open to show the majority of the pretty strawberry pie filling.

Bake the dessert, uncovered, on the center oven rack for 35-40 minutes or until the crust on the top and bottom is nicely golden brown.

Remove the baked dessert to a cooling rack; cool completely so the cheesecake filling can set before serving.

Serve the fruit dessert sliced into wedges (like you’d slice and serve a pie), topped with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. 

More Easy Strawberry Desserts

From Fresh and Easy Strawberry Pie and Farmhouse Strawberry Crumble, to White Chocolate Strawberry Poke Cake, I’m all about it. Easy dessert recipes are a must when you need something sweet for your family or guests stopping by.

Here are a few more I love:

Strawberry Angel Food Dessert – A favorite summer strawberry dessert at our house, this sweet treat is absolutely refreshing on a hot evening.

Stawberry Gello Pretzel Salad – A sweet and salty pretzel base with a creamy layer topped with sliced strawberries and jello.

Aunt Sue’s Strawberry Slab Pie – A strawberry pie that is very easy to serve since it’s cut into squares that lift right out of the cookie sheet.