Strawberry Cheese Danishes
A few weeks back I shared my recipe for Strawberry Cheese Danishes over at Crafty Meggy’s blog. It was something that I devised based on a Pinterest recipe and I made it on the fly so I hope you enjoy it!
I am always looking for new ways to clean out my refrigerator and use up the stuff I have in a creative way. Before my family and I embarked on our trip to Indiana to celebrate my brother in law’s wedding, I had one of those moments where I just wanted to clear out the refrigerator before I came back to a weird fridge monster. So I managed to cook a bunch of successful meals throughout the week. The day before our departure, I was left with a can of crescent rolls, a package of cream cheese and a container of one of Kaylee’s favorite fruits…strawberries. Now I was wondering what I could make with these items that we could actually finish eating before we left. I hit up my favorite place on the web…Pinterest. I found several concoctions that I could try but one stood out above the rest. I found a recipe for a cheese danish made with crescent rolls. I fancied it up with the strawberries and here is what I ended up with:
Strawberry Cheese Danishes
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Serves: 8
Ingredients
- Danish
- 2 tubes of crescent rolls
- 1 8 oz package of cream cheese (at room temp)
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- [br]Macerated Strawberries
- 2 cups chopped up strawberries
- 1/4 cup sugar
- [br]Icing
- 1 cup confectioner’s sugar
- 1 tbsp milk
- 1 tbsp butter (softened)
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a small bowl, combine the strawberries and sugar and allow them to sit for 15 minutes.
- Mix the cream cheese, 1/2 cup sugar, and vanilla with a whisk until it is somewhat fluffy.
- Open the tubes of crescent rolls. Without unrolling them (leave it in a log shape), cut into 8 pieces. Do the same to the other roll.
- Place the disks onto a lined cookie sheet and press your finger into the center of each disk, essentially making a little dough cup.
- Dollop the cream cheese mixture into each cup and top with the macerated strawberries.
- Make sure not to get too much of the strawberry juice onto the danish or it will make it a bit soggy.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.
- While the danishes are baking, make the icing by whisking the confectioner’s sugar, milk and softened butter until it forms a glaze.
- Remove the danishes from the oven and allow them to cool before spooning the icing over them
