Cherry Cheesecake Pinwheels – a simple pinwheel-shaped puff pastry crust with a cheesecake center topped with canned pie cherry filling.  A simply decadent dessert that can be ready in under 30 minutes.

Are you looking for a deliciously easy dessert to share with your loves on Valentine’s?  These Cherry Cheesecake Pinwheels are super easy to make and taste amazing.  They only have a handful of ingredients (which you may already have on hand) and can be ready in under 30 minutes.  They’re filled with a sweet cream cheese mixture and topped with easy, store-bought cherry pie filling.  Beautifully decadent desserts can also be simple and simply delicious!

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What will I need to make these cherry cheesecake pinwheel pastries?

There are only 5 ingredients in this recipe.  One of the reasons I love this recipe is that I usually have all the ingredients on hand (hit and miss with frozen puff pastry).  This recipe is what I’d consider a “semi-homemade” dessert.  Most of the ingredients are store-bought but when you bring them all together, it turns into the beautiful, delicious, sharable dessert.  Here are the 5 ingredients you’ll need for this recipe:

1. Frozen puff pastry dough
2. Cream cheese
3. Sugar
4. Cherry pie filling
5. Egg (for egg wash-so really it’s more like a 4-ingredient dessert 🙂 )

How do you make the puff pastry look like a pinwheel?

This step is surprisingly easy.  It takes 3 steps to make the puff pastry into the pinwheel shape. Step 1, cut the frozen puff pastry dough into squares (9 squares per sheet). Step 2, one piece at a time, cut each corner about 1 to 1 1/2 inches toward the center.  Don’t cut all the way to the center or your pinwheel won’t have anywhere to hold the cheesecake filling or cherries. Step 3, fold each corner to the bottom of the cut above itself. (This is where the pinwheel diagram is really helpful).  Hopefully, that makes sense.  If you were making a pinwheel from a piece of paper you’d cut the corners almost to the middle then take each point and fold it into the center and pin it.  We need to make a little “pocket” for the sweet goodies to go, that’s why you’ll only want to cut part of the way up the corner.

Not a fan of cherries or cherry pie filling?

If you don’t like cherries or cherry pie filling you can make this recipe using your favorite kind of pie filling in place of the cherry pie filling.  Other fillings and flavors that would be delicious and just as easy would be:

• Blueberry
• Peach
• Apple
• Lemon
• Raspberry

I’m not sure how well pumpkin would work with these. (If you try pumpkin I’d love to hear about your experience.  You can drop me a comment or shoot me an email).

These delicious pastries are great for more than just Valentine’s day!

• Christmas – cherry or red raspberry
• Thanksgiving – any (pumpkin would be delicious but I’m not sure how well a puree would do on these)
• 4th of July – cherry and blueberry (it would be so pretty with red, white and blue)
• Summer party – lemon!!!
• Fall – APPLE and peach!

Here’s the full printable recipe. Happy Baking!