Quick And Easy Cherry Cream Cheese Danishes Recipes

EASY CHERRY DANISH RECIPE WITH CREAM CHEESE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F. Remove crescent dough from can, but DO NOT unroll. Cut dough into 8 slices and place 2 inches apart on cookie sheet. Press each slice into 3 inch round pieces, making sure to leaving ridge around outer edge.
• In small bowl, mix together cream cheese and 4 tablespoons powdered sugar. Spoon about 2 teaspoons cream cheese mixture on center of each piece of dough and spread around the center.
• Top the cream cheese mixture with 1 teaspoon cherry pie filling. Bake 12 to 14 minutes or until golden brown. Cool 4- 5 minutes on cookie sheet before moving them.
• In a small bowl, mix 1/2 cup powdered sugar and 2-3 teaspoons of milk. Start with 2 tsp of milk and add more for your desired constancy. Drizzle glaze over Danish using a spoon and serve warm.

EASY CHERRY CREAM CHEESE DANISH

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.In a medium bowl, combine granulated sugar, vanilla extract, and cream cheese. Beat until smooth; set aside.Unroll crescent rolls. There will be 4 large rectangles of dough pre-cut down the center lines. Run a knife down the center both vertically and horizontally. Disregard the crescent shapes, you want 4 rectangles. Repeat with second crescent rolls container. SEE NOTES FOR A SIMILAR YOUTUBE VIDEO LINK to demonstrate this.Pinch the seams in each rectangle to hold together and form a solid piece of dough. Generously coat each side of the rectangles with sugar. You should have 8 rectangles of dough from two containers of store-bought rolls.Slice each rectangle of dough in half the long way. You will have 16 strips of sugared dough once done.Gently stretch each strip of dough without it breaking.Twist the dough rope.Spiral the rope around itself to form a loose circle/spiral. SEE NOTES FOR A SIMILAR YOUTUBE VIDEO LINK to demonstrate this.Place onto cookie sheet, spacing danishes about 2 inches apart.Using a spoon/fingers, press fingers into center of dough to create of bowl/well.Add cream cheese to the center and spoon a little cherry filling on top of cream cheese.Bake in oven for 15-17 minutes or until golden brown.To make the icing, combine powdered confectioners' sugar and water. Mix until smooth. Drizzle over the top of each cooled danish.

EASY CHERRY DANISH WITH SWEET CREAM CHEESE

Steps:

• Take the frozen pastry out of the freezer and let it thaw on the counter for about 30 minutes (do not unfold- it will easily break).
• Beat cream cheese and sugar on low speed until creamy. Add egg yolk, vanilla extract, lemon juice and salt and continue mixing until the mixture is nice and smooth.
• Place the puff pastry on a try lined with parchment paper, dust it with flour and roll it out carefully.
• Place the cream cheese mixture down the middle of the puff pastry sheet lengthwise- creating about a 3 inch strip of filling.
• Spread the cherries on top of the filling.
• Using a pizza cutter or kitchen scissors, cut the sides of the pastry into 1 inch wide strips. Cut towards the filling, leaving about 1 inch before actually getting to the filling.
• Alternating the sides, fold them in over the filling until it will look like a braided pastry with fruit peeking out.
• Brush the dough with the beaten egg yolk.
• Bake for 400° F for 25 minutes until golden brown.
• Mix powdered sugar and milk and mix until well blended.
• Let it cool before glazing the pastry.