Thursday, January 27, 2011

Unbelievably Easy Cream Cheese Danish

I mean, really.  It's unbelievable how easy this teeny little danishes are.  Or maybe we should call them Danishettes. 
Are they as flaky and fabulous as the huge danish you get from your favorite bakery?  Of course not.  But hey, for 20 minutes and under $3 for a ton of these little ladies, I call this recipe a KEEPER.

You need:
2 Cans of crescent rolls
          ***Leave rolled up.  Slice into 1/4" thick slices.  Lay slices flat on cookie sheet (I bake mine on parchment paper so nothing sticks).  Use your fingers to flatten the center of each disc.

For Filling:
1 block of cream cheese
1 tsp lemon juice
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 C plus 2 TBS sugar
         ***MIX UNTIL SMOOTH.  Put 1 generous tsp of filling in the center of each danishette***

BAKE AT 350 for 12-15minutes until pastry edges are light golden brown.

For Glaze (Mix together while danishettes are baking):
2 C Powdered sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp lemon juice
1 TBS melted butter
       ***Mix until smooth...if mixture is too thick, add water 1TBS at a time until desired thickness (shoot for a smooth pancake syrup type consistency).  If mixture is too thin, add more powdered sugar.  To glaze danishetter, dip a fork into your glaze and quickly move back and forth over danishettes, re-dipping fork as needed.  You want them streaked with glaze.  You don't want glops of glaze to fall in large puddles on them  It won't be as pretty.***

This makes 35-40 Danishettes.   YUM!!

You can mix it up by adding jelly or pie filling to the cream cheese or even just doing pie filling without the cream cheese.  That would make these little ladies go even quicker!

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