Crescent Roll Cream Cheese Danish
This delicious and easy Crescent Roll Cream Cheese Danish recipe will satisfy your breakfast sweet tooth! These cheese danishes are made crescent dough and are stuffed with a simple homemade cream cheese filling.
Equipment
- cookie sheet
Ingredients
- 1 package crescent dough
- 4 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
- 2 tablespoons white sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ egg white
- rainbow sprinkles, optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375° Fahrenheit and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or spray with cooking oil. Unpackage the crescent dough and lay it flat on a lightly floured counter. Tear apart the individual triangles to make small rolled crescents or form two triangles into one large rectangle to make open-faced danishes. Fold in the edges of the rectangles to create a raised edge.
- Make the cream cheese filling. Using a fork, mix room temperature cream cheese, white sugar, vanilla extract, and the egg white in a small bowl until the mixture is smooth.
- Spread the cream cheese mixture onto the center of the rectangle crescent dough. Scoop 1 to 2 tablespoons onto the short side of the triangle crescents and top with rainbow sprinkles. Roll the triangles tightly and top with more sprinkles.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, until the dough is golden brown and the cream cheese filling is set.
- Remove from the oven and top the open-faced danishes with sprinkles while still warm.
Notes
Don't add the sprinkles on top of the filling before baking. The colors will bleed and the sprinkles will melt a bit.
Make them egg-free by eliminating the egg white in the cream cheese mixture. This will make the filling a little more runny after being baked, because the egg helps to set the filling.
Storing: store leftover cream cheese danishes at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 2 days. They can be frozen for up to 3 months.
Nutrition
Serving: 3ozCalories: 321kcalCarbohydrates: 30gProtein: 4gFat: 22gSaturated Fat: 11gPolyunsaturated Fat: 4gMonounsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 31mgSodium: 541mgPotassium: 46mgSugar: 13gVitamin A: 381IUCalcium: 28mgIron: 1mg
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