There is nothing like warm crescent cheese danish with coffee. This recipe is one I found on Pinterest, and it is now a family favourite. Crescent roll dough makes these super easy to make, and within 30 minutes you can be enjoying a real treat.
This recipe will make 8 large danish or 16 small. For the pictures, I made small ones so 8 rectangles per tin of dough. If you’d rather make less, you can use only one tube of crescents, and save and freeze half of the cream cheese mixture for the next time. For baking I used a stone as I like the even heating. You can also use a nonstick cookie sheet or parchment paper.
Roll up from the long side….
Use your thumb to make a little centre for the cream cheese…
- For the danishes:
- 2 tubes crescent rolls
- 1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 1 tbsp. Vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp. melted butter
- 8 tbsp. light brown sugar
- For the glaze:
- ½ cup powdered (icing) sugar
- 1 tsp. Vanilla
- 4 tsp. milk
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- In a medium bowl, combine softened cream cheese with white sugar and vanilla. Beat until smooth and creamy.
- Separate the dough of first crescent roll tin into 4 rectangles, or 8 if you want smaller danish. I made small ones. Seal the perforations by pressing/pinching. This will prevent dough from separating when you roll them.
- Using a brush or spoon spread a small amount of melted butter on each rectangle. Leave edges clean so you can seal.
- Sprinkle each rectangle with about a tsp. or less of brown sugar. Again, keep the edges clean so you can roll and seal easily.
- Roll up from the long side. Pinch edges to seal. Then holding one end, loosely coil each rope into a coil.
- Using your thumb press the center to make a little “bowl” for the cream cheese filling.
- Top each coil with a dollop of cream cheese.
- Repeat with second tin of crescents. The reason I do this is because I leave one in the refrigerator while working with the other. The dough gets harder to work with as it sits out.
- Bake at 350 for 15-18 minutes or until golden.
- While baking, stir together the glaze ingredients and whisk smooth. After danish have cooled for 1 minute, drizzle glaze over the warm danish.
Delicious warm out of the oven…
These Crescent Cheese Danishes sound delicious! Looking for more inspiration? Check out some of Vicki’s other recipes here…
