Quickest and easiest Cheese Danish
This recipe is perfect for those that have never made puff pastry before or those who want something quick and easy but still delicious! It's an impressive (but super simple) recipe for when you have guests over. Perfect for brunch or a holiday breakfast.
It can't get better than fresh out of your oven. You can even add fresh berries, chocolate chips, or jam/pie filling to this recipe.
You don’t even need to make the dough! For this recipe we use Pillsbury crescent dough.
Step 1: Take your cream cheese out.
You are going to want to let your cream cheese sit and soften to make it easier to mix with the rest of the ingredients.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit
8 ounce cream cheese
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Step 2: Granulated Sugar and vanilla extract
Add to cream cheese and mix with a hand mixer or kitchen-aid.
Step 3: Roll out your crescent dough.
Keep two of the crescent triangles together to form a square. Each square will be one danish.
Step 4:Melt butter: brush on dough
Step 5: Place about 1 Tablespoon of light brown sugar on each square
Step 6: Sprinkle cinnamon on each
Step 7:Roll up each square into long tubes↑
Step 8: Roll each tube into pinwheels and use your thumb to make thumbprints in the middle. Put as much filling as you can in each hole {about 1 or 2 Tablespoons each}
Step 9:Bake until golden brown!
Glaze (optional)
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 teaspoon milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla in a bowl until smooth. Drizzle over each Danish
Most Important Step:
Enjoy!♡
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