Quick, Easy, & Delicious Cream Cheese Danish
For over 20 years I've been making this quick, easy, and super delicious cream cheese danish. This recipe has only a few ingredients and the crescent rolls are a necessary addition.
Servings 6
Calories 328kcal
Ingredients
- 1 8 oz. pkg cream cheese room temperature
- ½ c. all-purpose flour
- ½ c. granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 tube crescent rolls
Cinnamon/Sugar Sprinkle
- ⅛ c. granulated sugar
- ½ tsp. ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- Mix cream cheese, flour, sugar, eggs, and vanilla extract until smooth.
- Prepare a cookie sheet with non-stick spray or line the pan with a silicone mat or parchment paper.
- Unroll the crescent rolls, leaving them all joined. You may also use the sheet dough.
- Lightly dust the crescent roll dough with flour and roll it out slightly with a rolling pin so the dough is about 10 inches wide by 14 inches long.
- With a pizza cutter or knife, cut strips along the length of the dough. Your cuts should be about an inch wide and 2 to 3 inches long.
- Pour the cream cheese mixture over the center of the arranged dough.
- Starting with one end of the dough, pull each strip down to rest along the cream cheese mixture. Do this to both ends.
- Alternate left and right strips to braid the dough down across the center of the cream cheese filling. Tuck any strips that stick out
- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until the dough is light golden brown.
- While baking, mix cinnamon and sugar sprinkle ingredients together.
- Once the danish is removed from the oven, sprinkle them with cinnamon/sugar.
- This is danish is best enjoyed warm.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 | Calories: 328kcal | Carbohydrates: 32g | Protein: 9g | Fat: 17g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 199mg | Sodium: 235mg | Potassium: 69mg | Sugar: 23g
