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Bacon Heart Bites

With a decadently flaky cream cheese pastry and a thick layer of bacon, these heart shaped morsels are absolutely divine. Make your bacon heart bites for valentines day, for a charcuterie board or for a delicious snack option.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 16 minutes
Chilling Time 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours 36 minutes
Course: Side Dish, Snack
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

Pastry
  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 75 g butter cold
  • 100 g cream cheese
  • 1 tablespoon cold water
Filing
  • 6 bacon rashers
  • 30 g butter melted
  • 30 g tomato paste

Method
 

Pastry
  1. Place your flour and butter into a food processor. Pulse the mixture until the the butter until the mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs.
  2. Add in your cream cheese and pulse again until the mixture is well combined.
  3. Add in the water and pulse the mixture until it begins to form together in small clumps.
  4. Turn your dough out onto a clean bench top and use your hands to bring the dough into a smooth dough ball.
  5. Press the dough between 2 baking sheets and roll out thinly using a rolling pin.
  6. Trim and shape your dough to form a 24cm by 30cm rectangle that is about 5mm thick.
Assembly
  1. Lay your bacon rashers over the surface of the dough. Make sure that there are no gaps or overlapping of the slices.
  2. Combine the melted butter and tomato paste in a small container. Brush the mixture all over the surface of the bacon.
  3. Fold both of the long edges of your pastry 3cm of the way towards the center, press firmly to keep the bacon in place.
  4. Fold the long edges towards the center again. Make sure to leave a strip through the center to allow you to form your heart shape.
  5. Finally fold the two folded parts of the dough together to create the upper curves of your hearts. Gently press the center folded edge to from an sharper angle, that will become the bottom point of your hearts.
  6. Wrap the prepared heart log in baking paper and place it in the freezer. Leave it to freeze until it is firm enough to slice thinly (approx 2 hours).
Cooking
  1. Preheat your oven to 180 degrees fan bake. Line 2 baking sheets with baking paper.
  2. Remove your heart log from the freezer. Cut the log into 1cm slices. You can use a ruler to make the cut points and then use a sharp knife to slice through the frozen pastry.
  3. Lay your sliced hearts onto your prepared baking sheets and bake for 16 minutes or until the dough is cooked through and golden.

Notes

Serve warm or cold.
Store your cooled crackers in a sealed snap lock bag or container in the fridge for up to 5 days.