Description
Easy cherry cheese danish recipe using frozen puff pastry. You can make these delicious pastries quickly.
Ingredients
Scale
- 17.3 ounces frozen puff pastry (1 box, 2 sheets)
- 6 ounces cream cheese
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 21 ounces cherry pie filling
- powdered sugar for dusting on top
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°.
- Lay out one roll of puff pastry and cut it in half and then in half again, making 4 even squares.
- Leaving a ½ centimeter edge, start ½ centimeter in from the corner and cut parallel to one side not quite to the middle.
- Start from where you cut at the corner and make an L going down the other side but not all the way to the middle.
- Do this on each corner.
- Repeat on all 4 squares.
- Mix cream cheese, sugar and vanilla extract in a bowl.
- Put one scant teaspoon in the middle of each corner of the pastry.
- Place one cherry and small amount of filling on each cream cheese corner.
- Dip finger in water and dampen each corner to help them stick.
- Fold each cut corner piece into the middle making sure to press slightly so it will hold.
- Put one cherry in the middle.
- Repeat with second roll of pastry.
- Bake for 12 min.
- Remove from oven and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Enjoy!
Notes
- You can use other fruit fillings.
- Adjust sugar to your taste.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 danish
- Calories: 250
- Sugar: 20g
- Sodium: 100mg
- Fat: 15g
- Saturated Fat: 8g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 30g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 40mg