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cream cheese

🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: ricotta cheese

Greek yogurt reduces calories while maintaining creaminess

mixed berries

🥗Healthier: frozen berries

💰Cheaper: canned fruit

Frozen berries are often less expensive and available year-round

powdered sugar

🥗Healthier: coconut sugar

💰Cheaper: granulated sugar

Coconut sugar has a lower glycemic index but similar sweetness

puff pastry

🥗Healthier: whole wheat pastry dough

💰Cheaper: homemade pie crust

Whole wheat pastry dough adds fiber while homemade pie crust can be more economical

Thaw the puff pastry on the counter for about 15-30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 400°F.

Make the cream cheese filling by adding the softened cream cheese to a mixing bowl, add the sugar, and vanilla, and mix with a fork until well incorporated. Set aside.

When dough is defrosted, sprinkle some flour on your clean counter, add the puff pastry and roll it out a bit, then using a sharp knife, cut it into 6 equal rectangles.

Add parchment paper to a baking sheet, add the cut puff pastry, then using a knife, score a cut leaving ½ inch border inside the pastry, but make sure not to cut all the way through. Using a fork, poke a few times inside the pastry, this helps the pastry not to puff up.

Add a tablespoon of the cream cheese filling in the center of the pastry in all 6 pieces.

In a small bowl, add the blackberries, sugar, and lemon juice and gently toss them together. Add the blackberry filling on top of the cream cheese filling.

Whisk the egg and water in a small bowl. Using a pastry brush, brush the egg wash along the edges of the pastry. Sprinkle turbinado sugar on the edges.

Bake the pastries for 12-14 minutes or until the edges of the pastry are golden. Remove from the oven and cool on a cooling rack.

Make the lemon-vanilla icing by adding the powdered sugar, lemon juice, and vanilla extract into a small bowl, whisking it together, then drizzling over the pastries once they are a bit cooler. Enjoy.

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