Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Cream Cheese Danish

You know those tasty little cheese danishes that are on the Continental Breakfasts at hotels? Forget those my friends...forget those forever. This Cream Cheese Danish is so much better, and easy to make I might add.


open dough

For this you will need two packages of canned crescent rolls. While this is me opening the rolls, I wish I could have gotten a picture of CC opening the other package. She jumps every time. hee-hee

roll out dough

Roll out one package of the rolls into the bottom of a greased 9x13 pan. I used a mini rolling pin from the Pampered Chef (used without permission). If you don't have one of these nifty uni-taskers, then just pinch the seams together.

cheese sugar vanilla egg yolk

In a medium bowl add two packages cream cheese, one cup of sugar, one egg yolk (keep the white for later), one teaspoon vanilla and a pinch of salt.

mix

Mix until all combined, creamed...etc.

plop on filling

Put the cream cheese goodness into the pan.

place dough on top of filling

Roll/grumble/pat out the next package of rolls on top of the cream cheese filling.

egg wash

Make up an egg wash by taking the egg white and adding a tablespoon of water to it and whisking till the egg does not...uhhh...hold together...is loose enough to brush.

pinch seams egg wash

Pinch the seams of the dough and brush with the egg wash.

Bake in a 350º oven for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown.

While the danish is baking, you have to make a powdered sugar glaze.

powdered sugar for glaze

Use a ½ cup of powdered sugar,

dont forget salt

a pinch of salt, a blurb of vanilla, and about a tablespoon of water or milk.

drizzling consistency

Make it to be a little thick but liquiddy enough to drizzle.

drizzle

When the danish is fresh from the oven, drizzle on the glaze in fancy designs because you can.

up close and personal

Then comes the fun part! Yummo!

Cream Cheese Danish

  • 2 packages crescent rolls
  • 2 packages cream cheese, softened
  • 1 c. sugar
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 egg, seperated
Preheat the oven to 350º. Lay out one package of the crescent rolls in the bottom of a greased 9x13" pan, pinching the seams. Beat the cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and egg yolk in a stand mixer till well blended. Spread over first layer of rolls. Lay out second package over the filling, again, pinching the seams. Beat the egg white and brush over the top layer of rolls. Bake for 30 minutes. Drizzle with a powdered sugar glaze.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

you can buy crescent rolls w/o seams now!--they are right next to the knock-granny-over-for-the-last-one garlic/butter flavoured ones!

I'll be adding this to my homeschoolers work to be done today!

Anonymous said...

Ooooooo

Now I'm craving a cream cheese danish and I really shouldn't have one since I am trying to lose weight.

You and your mom are really rough on a person's diet. ;-)

Mrs Elaine

Anonymous said...

Oh my word. That looks wonderful.

We will be adding these ingredients to the shopping list.

Anonymous said...

This has nothing to do with this recipe...

Your mom, has been telling us that you have told her there is a difference between stock and broth. Do you think you could explain this and show us how to make both?

Much appreciated,
Mrs. Elaine =)

Anonymous said...

Mmmmmmm...okay now I am really wanting one of those.