French Napoleons

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 2 sheets frozen puff pastry, thawed
• 1 cup cold milk
• 1 (3 1/2 ounce) package vanilla instant pudding mix (or use chocolate)
• 1 cup cool whip
• 1 1/4 cups sliced fresh strawberries
• powdered sugar

Recipe

• 1 on a lightly floured surface, roll out each pastry sheet to 1/8-inch thickness.
• 2 using a shaped cookie cutter of your choice (i prefer hearts), cut out 9 napoleons per sheet.
• 3 place on ungreased baking sheets.
• 4 (if your dough has become too warm, place in refrigerator to chill. the pastry will not "puff" well if warm.).
• 5 bake at 400º for 8-11 minutes or until golden brown.
• 6 remove to wire racks to cool.
• 7 in a bowl, whisk milk and pudding mix for 2 minutes. fold in cool whip.
• 8 split puff pastry shapes in half.
• 9 place bottom halves on serving plates.
• 10 spoon filling over each; top with strawberries. i make the points of the slices stick out over the edges.
• 11 top with pastry tops. (add just a dab of filling on top of strawberries so the pastry top will stick.).
• 12 sprinkle with powdered sugar.
• 13 serve immediately.