Simple Fruit Pastry Bites 

So Maggie walks into the kitchen and says,

"Mom, can I have one of those things to eat with the jelly on the inside?"

I knew what she was talking about, but I wasn't about to say yes to those.  I did, however, have a lone sheet of phyllo pastry in the freezer that needed a purpose and plenty of fruit preserves and a little Nutella left in a jar to whip up something fun for her.

HERE'S WHAT I DID

After the pastry sheet thawed out. I heated up the oven to 400F degrees.

I dusted my work area with powdered sugar and cut up the pastry into thirds then in half.  I added about 2 teaspoons of fruit preserves to one side of the pastry.  Lightly wet the edges with water, using my finger, then sealed edges around the filling, carefully removing trapped air as I went along.

Moved the pastry to a greased cookie sheet and baked for 10 to 12 minutes.

While the pastry was baking, I mixed up 1/4 cup powdered sugar with approximately 1 to 1 1/2 teaspoons of milk to make a glaze.  When the pastry was still hot, I drizzled them with glaze.

These sweet treats are better after they've had time to cool.  Eating them still warm from the oven, the dough is very soft, the filling is messy and they are very rich.

The ones we enjoyed that evening after dinner held up better.   The fruit preserves had time to firm up.  They didn't taste SO SWEET, which was sort of a bad thing, because then we wanted to keep eating them.  Thank goodness, I didn't have that much leftover pastry dough.