This homemade cheese danish is everything you could want for a delicious breakfast treat: a buttery, flaky pastry with a creamy soft cream cheese filling inside. Skip the drive-thru or store-bought danishes and make this easy homemade version instead.
If you like fruit filling in your breakfast pastries, you’ll want to try blueberry hand pies and cherry danish.
These cheese Danish are the perfect breakfast treat. We love the buttery flaky texture of the pastry and the creamy soft custard filling inside.
Cheese Danish
This delightful Cheese Danish recipe comes together quickly and easily with only a few ingredients. A delicious creamy cream cheese filling wrapped up with a flaky puff pastry, it’s the perfect way to start the day!
Prep: 15min
Total: 45min
Yield: 8
Serving Size: 1 serving
Nutrition Facts: calories 163 kcal, Carbohydrate 21 g, Protein 2 g, Fat 8 g, Saturated Fat 4 g, Cholesterol 48 mg, Sodium 78 mg, Fiber 1 g, Sugar 20 g, unSaturated Fat 3 g, servingSize 1 serving
Ingredients:
- 6 ounces cream cheese (softened (170g))
- 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 batch puff pastry (or 1 box, thawed)
- 1 egg white (lightly beaten)
- 1 cup powdered sugar ((120g))
- 2 tablespoons milk
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
Instruction:
- Bake for 15 minutes. Rotate pans and continue baking for another 15 minutes or until the pastry is golden brown and puffed. Let cool on the baking sheet while making the glaze.
- While the pastries cool, whisk together the confectioners’ sugar, milk, and vanilla extract until smooth. Drizzle over the warm pastries before serving.
Cheese Danish
Love the Starbucks cheese danish? Save money by making these easy danishes at home with just a few ingredients!
Prep: 10min
Total: 25min
Yield: 8
Serving Size: 1 danish
Nutrition Facts: servingSize 1 danish, calories 152 kcal, Carbohydrate 9 g, Protein 3 g, Fat 12 g, Saturated Fat 6 g, Cholesterol 52 mg, Sodium 107 mg, Sugar 7 g, unSaturated Fat 4 g
Ingredients:
- 8 ounces cream cheese (softened)
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 1 sheet puff pastry (thawed if frozen)
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon water
Instruction:
- Preheat oven to 425°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a small bowl, beat together cream cheese and sugar until smooth.
- Unroll puff pastry and, if needed, use a rolling pin to gently roll out to a rectangle approximately 9×13 inches. Cut pastry into 8 rectangles.
- Transfer the rectangles to the prepared baking sheet, leaving some space between. (You might need two baking sheets.) Using a paring knife, score a smaller rectangle inside each piece of dough, leaving a ½-inch border all around. Be careful to not cut all the way through the dough.
- Spread about 2 tablespoons of the cream cheese mixture onto each smaller rectangle. Beat together egg and water, then use a pastry brush or paper towel to brush the egg wash on the uncovered pastry edges.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes, until puffed and golden brown. Let cool slightly before serving.
Cheese Danish Recipe with Crescent Rolls
This easy cream cheese danish recipe is a homemade version of the popular pastry that comes out of the oven warm and flaky.
Prep: 15min
Total: 70min
Serving Size: 1 serving
Nutrition Facts: calories 343 kcal, Carbohydrate 34 g, Protein 5 g, Fat 22 g, Saturated Fat 11 g, Trans Fat 1 g, Cholesterol 69 mg, Sodium 430 mg, Fiber 1 g, Sugar 23 g, servingSize 1 serving
Ingredients:
- 2 (8-ounce) cans crescent dough rolls
- 2 (8-ounce) packages full fat cream cheese, (softened)
- 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract, (divided)
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon water
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons milk
Instruction:
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray a 9×13-inch glass baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.
- Unroll a full sheet of crescent dough and press into the bottom and up the sides of the prepared baking dish, pressing the seam lines together.
- In a medium mixing bowl, beat together softened cream cheese, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, lemon juice, granulated sugar, and 1 egg. Spread mixture evenly over the crescent dough.
- Roll out the second sheet of crescent dough, pressing seams together with your fingers. Lay dough over the top of the cream cheese layer.
- Mix remaining egg with a tablespoon of water and brush over the top of the crescent dough top.
- Bake for 30 to 40 minutes or until crescent dough is golden brown on the top and on the bottom of the baking dish.
- Allow the cheese danish to cool for 20 to 30 minutes before topping with glaze.
- To make the glaze, whisk together ½ cup powdered sugar, remaining ½ teaspoon vanilla extract, and milk until smooth.
- Drizzle glaze over cooled danish.
- Cut into 12 bars and serve.
EASY Cheese Danish Recipe
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