Easy Cream Cheese Danish

This quick and easy cream cheese danish starts with store-bought crescent roll dough, and can be made, start to finish in under 30 minutes. 
This quick and easy cream cheese danish starts with store-bought crescent roll dough, and can be made, start to finish in under 30 minutes.
The SWEET SMELL of FRESHLY baked DANISH…..
From the first sniff of Easy Cream Cheese Danish baking, you’ll have an audience in the kitchen, waiting for the treats to be cool enough to sink their teeth into. So easy, right!? Easy (Like, Really Easy) ? Easy like treat with store-bought crescent rolls dough. No, I’m also not one to encourage using store-bought pastry dough, but flaky, buttery pastry dough isn’t exactly the easiest or the fastest recipe known to man. So if you’re anything like me and looking for a quick and easy dessert – store bought crescent roll dough it is.
Also, once you taste these, you will not need to run into a bakery and buying one, and  you won’t care if they’re authentic cream cheese danishes or not. They’re good, amazing, awesome, beautiful, great, incredible, really nice and unbelievable, so that’s all that matters.

But hey, don’t take it from me – make this easy cream cheese danish ASAP !!!

This quick and easy cream cheese danish starts with store-bought crescent roll dough, and can be made, start to finish in under 30 minutes.

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Easy Cream Cheese Danish
 
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This quick and easy cream cheese danish starts with store-bought crescent roll dough, and can be made, start to finish in under 30 minutes.
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Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • 2 cans of crescent rolls
  • 1 8oz package of cream cheese at room temp.
  • 2 Tbsp granulated sugar, divided
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • ¾ tsp vanilla
  • 1 tsp sour cream
  • Optional: assorted jams and preserves or pie filling (raspberry, cherry, strawberry, apricot, blueberry, lemon, etc)
  • Icing:
  • 1 cup confectioner's sugar
  • 1 tbsp milk
  • 1 tbsp softened butter
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350.
  2. Unroll the crescent rolls and separate into rectangles of dough using two triangle.
  3. Pinch closed the diagonal cut to form one solid sheet of dough. Sprinkle light with sugar.
  4. Slice crescent roll dough into 1 inch x 8 inch slices.
  5. Gently lift dough slice and twist opposite ends in opposing directions into a loose rope.
  6. Spiral the rope around itself to form a loose circle/spiral.
  7. Place onto a cookie sheet lined with a baking paper, spacing danishes about 2 inch apart.
  8. Press the centers with a finger to make a well for the filling and stretch the sides a bit if it is necessary.
  9. In a large bowl, mix together cream cheese, sugar, lemon juice, vanilla extract and sour cream.
  10. Add a tablespoon of filling to each roll.
  11. Lightly brush dough with melted butter.
  12. Bake in preheated oven for 12 to 15 minutes. or until lightly golden brown.
  13. In a small bowl, stir together confectioners' sugar, milk and butter.
  14. You can use a spoon to drizzle it over the tops of the danish,
  15. or you can put it into a small zip-top bag and snip of the corner for an easy "piping bag."
  16. Take the danish out of the oven and allow them to cool for 10-15 minutes before icing.
  17. Voila! Cream cheese danish without leaving the house or breaking a sweat.


This quick and easy cream cheese danish starts with store-bought crescent roll dough, and can be made, start to finish in under 30 minutes.

20 thoughts on “Easy Cream Cheese Danish

  1. neuroticmom

    I make these all the time but an even easier way is to leave the rolls tube shaped slice the dough into about 8 slices and then place indentation in center. Love these filled with fresh blueberries or strawberry preserves.

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  2. Geegee

    Just made these a day or two ago. I am probably one of a handful of people who don’t like cream cheese filling, so I used cherry pie filling. They were almost better than bakery-purchased rolls. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe.

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  8. Aunt Sammie

    Genius! to cut into strips andtwist. I also like NeuroticMom’s idea of just slicing through the rolled up dough! Having an open can of pumpkin, I added it to the cream cheese mix along with an eggs and pumpkin pie spice. Because it’s just me, I used only one can of rolls and adjusted thefilling accordingly. The four are now baking in my toaster oven and will soon be brunch! Thanks for your ideas.

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  9. Kacky

    Great recipe. I took neuroticmom’s advice and sliced the dough. I cook with my adult son who has severe autism, and he would not have had patience tonight for the twisting, but it will add another level of interest in the future as his motor skills improve. He enjoyed pushing down on it with a wooden pestle-type tart former that I got at a catalogue party, so anytime he gets to use a gadget, it’s a bonus. Instead of mixing the cream cheese, I had him squish it through a potato masher until his arms were tired. We will definitely be making these again.

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  10. Anne A.

    Halfed the recipe for just the two of us. VERY delicious and easy! Will try varying the filling next time by doing some cream cheese and some with pie filling. Tho the pumpkin idea also sounded wonderful. Thankyou for sharing!

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  11. Yvonne Jefferson

    Since there are only two people in our household, I halved the recipe. The first time I made them I used the slice/flatten and indent method. My husband was an instant fan but we both thought that we’d like the cream cheese more evenly distributed. The next time I made them I opened the package of rolls and after dividing them into crescents I added a teaspoon of cream cheese mixture to each before rolling. They turned out perfect.

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