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This Apple Danish Recipe is quick, scrumptious and made with crescent roll dough, contemporary apples for the apple pie filling and a easy glaze! It’s significantly so easy to throw collectively and tastes superb proper out of the oven. An ideal Fall deal with or weekend brunch! Need extra Fall apple breakfasts/desserts? Strive my Apple Turnover and Buttery Apple Crisp.

Why You’ll Love This Recipe!

These Apple Danishes are the right semi-fancy-semi-easy recipe for Fall. With apple season upon us, you could be in want of a number of methods to make use of up your harvest! It is a fabulous breakfast, brunch or candy deal with that it’s essential to attempt. It’s smooth, candy, barely chewy, barely tangy, candy, spicy, and all-around satisfying. Delish! The principle motive why this recipe is so fast and simple is that I exploit a can of store-bought crescent roll dough. If that isn’t your factor, you possibly can completely make selfmade crescent dough as a substitute.

Extra Danish Pastries to attempt to love! Cheese Danish Recipe, Chocolate Cream Cheese Danish, Pumpkin Cream Cheese Danish, and Simple Blackberry Cheese Danish.

Aren’t Danishes Sometimes Made with Puff Pastry?

Sure, sure they’re. Puff Pastry dough is made with flour, water and butter. It’s then rolled out and folded a number of occasions creating layers. When it’s baked, it creates air pockets throughout the layers which makes the sunshine and flaky pastry. Crescent roll dough is made with comparable substances plus sugar making it a bit sweeter, however nonetheless has that mild and flaky texture that all of us love in a danish or different pastries. I used crescent roll dough for this recipe as a result of truthfully it’s what I had readily available. I discovered that it was a bit simpler to work with and it turned out nice too!

The best way to Make an Apple Danish

This Apple Cream Cheese Danish recipe makes use of easy substances and is fast to throw collectively. So in the event you’re in a pinch and wish an ideal autumn dessert or breakfast, that is your recipe. For full recipe particulars, together with substances and measurements wanted, see the printable recipe card down under. Right here is step-by-step what you possibly can anticipate when making this simple danish recipe:

Preheat Oven + Prep

Preheat the oven to 375° F. Put aside a cookie sheet.

Prepare dinner the Apples

In a medium nonstick skillet, soften butter over medium warmth. Add in diced apples, cinnamon, and sugar. Stir and cook dinner till tender, 10-Quarter-hour.

diced apples, cinnamon and sugar in a skillet

Make the Cream Cheese Filling

Whereas the candy apples are cooking, in a small bowl, mix cream cheese, sugar, flour, and vanilla. Put aside.

cream cheese filling ingredients in a bowl

Lay Out Crescent Dough on a Baking Sheet

Pop open crescent roll dough and unroll, leaving crescents in rectangles. On an un-greased cookie sheet, lay the crescent roll rectangles collectively, lining them up width smart. The dough needs to be nearly the complete size of a half sheet pan. Press edges collectively to even out edges and seal any holes. With a pointy knife or pizza cutter, lower 1/2 inch diagonal strips up both sides of the dough.

womans hands unrolling crescent roll dough

womans hands sealing up the holes in the dough

Unfold Cream Cheese Filling Down the Heart of the Dough

Fastidiously unfold cream cheese filling down the middle of the dough to be about 2-3 inches broad.

crescent roll dough on a baking sheet with diagonal slits down both long sides

crescent roll laid out, slits cut and cream cheese being spread down the middle

Subsequent, Prime with cooked apples.

apples being added to cream cheese and crescent pastry

crescent roll dough on a baking sheet with cream cheese filling and apples down the center

Fold Dough Slits Over the Filling in a Braided Sample

Fold 1/2 inch dough items up over filling alternating sides to get that basic danish braid sample. You could have extra dough when you attain the top of the danish, so fold them in as greatest as you possibly can.

womans hand folding in the sides creating a braid pattern

sides folded over the center toppings of crescent dough

Bake + Cool

Bake for 20 minutes or till cream cheese and apple filling is about and the crescent dough is golden brown in colour. Cool not less than 20 minutes earlier than eradicating from baking sheet. As soon as danish has cooled, transfer to a serving platter.

Make the Icing

In a small bowl, combine collectively powdered sugar, vanilla, and heavy cream. Chances are you’ll want so as to add extra heavy cream to get the specified consistency. Drizzle icing over danish.

Slice into Items + Serve Heat

Slice into equal items and serve! You’ll be able to eat this heat or at room temperature…if you wish to wait. However, I received’t blame you in the event you snarf it proper out of the oven. Watch out to not burn your self! 😉

Apple Danish Storing Instructions

Any leftovers may be positioned in an hermetic container refrigerated for as much as 7 days. As a result of this apple danish additionally has cream cheese in it, you can’t let it sit out on the counter. Micro organism might develop and make you sick!

Make-Forward Instructions

Fortunately this danish recipe is tremendous simple to make forward. That is nice to avoid wasting you much more time! Whether or not you make this the night time forward for breakfast within the morning or for dessert the following day you possibly can observe these simple steps.

First, observe the instructions as regular and cease earlier than baking!
Make some room in your fridge as a result of now you possibly can take your complete baking sheet and cowl with plastic wrap.
Maintain in your fridge for as much as two days.
When able to bake, pull it out of your fridge and let the danish get to room temperature. Then bake as you usually would! Get pleasure from!

pieces of apple danish on a plate with cinnamon

FAQ’s + Baking Ideas for This Apple Danish Recipe

What sort of apple is the most effective to make use of in a danish pastry?

You should use any kind of apple you will have readily available. Granny Smith is an efficient conventional selection. I used a fuji apple for this explicit recipe.

Can I freeze an apple danish?

Sadly, this apple danish doesn’t freeze properly. It’s because the cream cheese filling will change textures when frozen then thawed once more. It turns into much less of a creamy filling and extra of a crumbly grainy texture.
However if you wish to make this danish recipe with out the cream cheese filling you possibly can freeze it (baked or unbaked).
Unbaked. Put together recipe utterly as much as the purpose of baking. Place the unbaked danish on the parchment-lined baking sheet within the freezer for a couple of hours till frozen. As soon as frozen, take away from the baking sheet and place it into an hermetic container. Return to the freezer for as much as two months!
You’ll be able to bake the danish straight from the freezer. Give it an additional 15-20 minutes to bake and watch carefully!
Baked. Cool the danish utterly then place in an hermetic container. It may final for as much as two weeks within the freezer. When able to serve, take away from the freezer and let thaw within the fridge in a single day. To warmth the danish up place within the oven till heated by. Retailer any leftovers within the fridge.

What can I exploit as a substitute of a can of crescent rolls?

You possibly can use a pre-made puff pastry sheet bought in grocery shops or make selfmade crescent roll dough from scratch. I’ve an in depth recipe publish that may be a superb place to show to.

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Simple Apple Danish Recipe – Lauren’s Newest