Easy Cheese Danish

Here is another recipe that I found through Pinterest and adpated it and it was so delicious! Mine was not nearly as pretty as the one I found on the Lauren's Latest Blog, but it sure as heck tasted good! I will try to get mine to be flatter (wider) next time and using less icing.

Above picture from the http://www.laurenslatest.com/ blog

Ingredients:1 tube reduced fat crescent rolls
1 8-oz. package low-fat cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 tablespoons all purpose flour
icing:
1 cup powdered sugar
5+ tablespoons heavy cream
splash vanilla extract

Directions:1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a small bowl, combine cream cheese, sugar, flour and vanilla. Set aside.
2. 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.
3. Press them out so they stretch out 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.
4. Carefully spread cream cheese filling down the center of the dough to be about 2-3 inches wide.
5. Cut 1/2 inch diagonal strips up each side of the dough.
6. 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.
7. Bake for 20-30 minutes or until filling is set and crescent dough is golden in color. Cool before removing from baking sheet.
8. Once danish has cooled, remove to serving platter.
9. 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.
10. Cut into pieces and serve.

  

Recipe adapted from http://www.laurenslatest.com/easy-cheese-danish/