How To Make Cream Cheese Danish with Fruit
This cream cheese danish is a flaky puff pastry with a luscious cream cheese filling and fruit topping- perfect for both breakfast and dessert!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2sheetsfrozen puff pastry,thawed
- 6ozcream cheese,softened
- 3tbspsugar
- 1tspvanilla extract
- 1egg,beaten
- ¼cupcoarse sugar
- ½cuppie filling,of choice, or diced fresh fruit
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
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Place the puff pastry sheets on a non-stick surface such as parchment paper or a baking mat.
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Use a 4-inch round cookie cutter or drinking glass rim to cut 4 circles out of each sheet of pastry.
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Using a small knife or a smaller cookie cutter, score a circle about ½ inch in from the edges of the pastry rounds.
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Use a fork to prick all over inside the smaller circle.
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Place the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla extract in the bowl of a mixer. Beat until smooth and creamy.
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Gently spread the cream cheese filling inside the smaller circle of each pastry round.
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Brush the edges of the pastries with beaten egg and sprinkle with coarse sugar.
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Bake for 17 to 20 minutes or until edges are golden brown.
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Cool, then spoon 1 tablespoon of pie filling into the center of each pastry. Serve.
Nutrition
- Calories: 175.93kcal
- Fat: 10.18g
- Saturated Fat: 4.88g
- Trans Fat: 0.00g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 3.38g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.72g
- Carbohydrates: 18.92g
- Fiber: 0.18g
- Sugar: 11.73g
- Protein: 2.45g
- Cholesterol: 43.38mg
- Sodium: 103.66mg
- Calcium: 26.29mg
- Potassium: 57.32mg
- Iron: 0.38mg
- Vitamin A: 87.92µg
- Vitamin C: 0.54mg
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