Easy Cheese Danish
Today’s post is a result from finding crescent rolls and a miscellaneous package of cream cheese in my fridge. I usually never make plain crescent rolls. I always have to make something cooler than that! So, I made a danish of sorts. It’s technically not a danish, but it looks like one and tastes pretty close, so it’s a fake out recipe!
Did I mention it takes 10 minutes or less to make? With only 4 ingredients? Well, it does. 
My kind of treat. Scroll down to see all the ‘how to’ photos to see what little effort this takes! Happy Wednesday!
Easy Cheese Danish
yield: 8 servings
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Ingredients:
1 tube crescent rolls
1 8-oz. package cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 tablespoons all purpose flour
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1 cup powdered sugar
4+ tablespoons heavy cream
splash vanilla extract
Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a small bowl, combine cream cheese, sugar, flour and vanilla. Set aside.
Pop open crescent roll dough and unroll, leaving crescents in rectangles. On an ungreased baking sheet, lay the crescent roll rectangles together, lining them up width wise. Dough should be almost the entire length of a half sheet pan.
Press edges together to even out edges and seal any holes. Carefully spread cream cheese filling down the center of the dough to be about 2-3 inches wide.
Cut 1/2 inch diagonal strips up each side of the dough.
Fold 1/2 inch dough pieces up over filling alternating sides to get a braided pattern. You may have excess dough once you reach the end of the danish, so fold them in as best as you can.
Bake for 20-30 minutes or until filling is set and crescent dough is golden in color. Cool before removing from baking sheet.
Once danish has cooled, remove to serving platter. In a small bowl, mix together powdered sugar, vanilla and cream to create icing. You may need to add more cream to get the desired consistency. Drizzle icing over danish.
Cut into pieces and serve.
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Your photos are gorgeous! Isn’t it amazing what a difference having a dslr makes?
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Marilyn Brennan — December 1st, 2010 @ 4:45 pm
This is definitely one of my very favorites, Lauren! AND YES, it is just like a Danish!
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Ahhhhhhh….I just love a good danish! Your recipe looks so “do-able” and super yummy too!
Sorry to hear that you got the cold bug! Wishing you a speedy recovery.
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I have for some reason always put danishes away with the “will only buy” column. I’ll give this a try now!
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Hi Lauren,
I tried this recipe last night and then again today.
My attempts were not so good. On the first one all of the cream cheese filling oozed out of the dough. Today I tried using a rolling pin on the dough to flatten a little more, which seemed to work but the top braided area pulled apart exposing the filling. It all still tasted good but the appearance was not so good. I think I will try puff pastry next time. Or maybe you could give me some insight as to what I may be doing wrong ? I do love the filling for this recipe. I added some strawberry syrup to the one I made this morning.
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Hey Lauren! Just made this today and they are delish!! I’m taking a big huge bit right now as I am typing this (good thing I went to the gym this morning). Mine oozed out a bit too, but that’s probably because I over stuffed them. Oh, and I added some fresh lemon juice and zest to the glaze. Thanks for sharing!
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I made this tonight and it is delicious! I will definitely be making this again.
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Lauren — August 26th, 2011 @ 3:38 am
Awesome! Glad you liked it!
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holy yum! i JUST made this and it is out of this world!!! if i didn’t have my husband coming home soon and my brother and his girlfriend over, i might just end up eating the whole thing. wow! delicious!
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Lauren — September 12th, 2011 @ 8:45 pm
Yay! So glad you like it! It is addicting, isn’t it?!
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whats heavy cream? I saw another recipe that called for this and I don’t know what it is???
Thanks!!!
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I’ve made this danish twice in the last 2 weeks. I saw it on Pinterest and since cheese danish is my teenager’s favorite sweet breakfast, I just had to make it for him. He thought this one was the best he’s ever had! Tonight I made one as an after-dinner treat, and my husband ate half of it, LOL. It really is delicious, and it’s so easy to make. Thanks for such an awesome recipe!
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The pictures helped me a lot. Baking it now cant wait to taste
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This is very good, but next time I am going to try it with puff pastry dough.
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DAMM! I HAVE NO CREAM OR I WOULD MAKE ONE RIGHT NOW. IT SURE LOOKS GOOD.
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This recipe is amazing! Thank you for your time and effort, you truly make cooking fun versus a horrendous expedition! I love flipping through your recipe index! If you haven’t tried this Danish recipe yet, please get to it! Way too delicious to miss!
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I always tried making cheese Danish recipes that called for egg in the cream cheese mixture and was never happy w the results. This recipe was perfect! I mixed in a big spoonful of store bought lemon curd w filling and turned out great.
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I made this but used almond extract instead of vanilla and it was wonderful!!!
Thanks for posting such an easy, yet impressive, danish! Yum!
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I made this twice in last 4 days and it is GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD, I love it.
Thank you for the recipe!!!!
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I just made this today because I’ve been craving cheese danish the past 2 weeks. Gotta love pregnancy cravings! I had a sliver of it while it was still warm and it’s AMAZING. I love how it’s so simple to make. My pregnant sister snagged a chunk of it as well…we are in heaven.
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