Easy Breakfast Cheese Danish

Amelia Jane 9:56 AM
Easy Breakfast Cheese Danish

Most of the time we eat a healthy breakfast. Our staple daily favorites are egg bake and roasted vegetables, and/or berry bake. But once in a while, especially on weekends, we enjoy this easy breakfast cheese danish for breakfast and snacks,

This crescent roll cheese danish disappears quickly, so it’s a good thing it’s super simple to make.

If you have kids, this is also a kid-friendly recipe to make together, and soon you’ll be able to delegate it to them as one of their things to make for everyone. It’s a quick one to learn by heart, so by the second time you make it, you may not even need to pull up the recipe.

prep time: 15 minutes
cook time: 40 minutes
additional time: 25 minutes
total time: 1 hour 20 minutes

This super simple and easy breakfast cheese danish recipe will satisfy your sweet tooth craving without keeping you in the kitchen for too long.

Ingredients

  • 2 cans ready to use refrigerated crescent rolls 
  • 2 packages 8-ounce packages cream cheese
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 egg
  • 1 egg white + 1 Tbsp milk or water
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar (for glaze)
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract (for glaze)
  • 2 tbsp milk (for glaze)

Instructions

  1. Sit cream cheese out to begin softening.
  2. Preheat oven to 350* degrees
  3. Grease a 13X9-inch baking pan. We like to use coconut oil.
  4. Lay crescent roll sheet in the pan, pushing the dough gently out to the edges.
  5. Beat together the cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, and egg until smooth.
  6. Spread the mixture over the crescent rolls evenly.
  7. Top cheese mixture with second pack of crescent rolls dough.
  8. Brush with egg wash (egg white + 1 Tbsp milk or water)
  9. Bake for 35-45 minutes until the top is golden brown
  10. Cool for ~20 minutes, while you make the glaze. Drizzle and brush on cooled danish.

Notes

TIP 1: ADD SPECIAL TOPPINGS:

For a shortcut to making sauce toppings, you can use ready made preserves, jams, syrups, custard, and pie fillings to add more flavors and delight. Even better, add a few sprinkles of the actual fruit. E.g., if you use raspberry jam, add a few fresh raspberries, and even a drizzle of raspberry syrup! YUMMY and looks like gourmet fair.

TIP 2: ADD FRUIT TOPPINGS TO INTERIOR OPTIONS:

  • You can top the cream cheese mixture with your choice of fruit spreads before adding the top layer of dough.
  • Swirl syrup into the creamy batter for streaks of color and flavor
  • Add flavors to your cream cheese batter, such as lemon curd for a lemon cream cheese danish.

TIP 3: USE DOUGH SHEETS & TRIANGLE CRESCENTS:

We like using the solid sheet for the first layer and the triangle sheets for the top. Use a pizza cutter or knife to open the perforated dough to allow the cream cheese to bubble up in between.

TIP 4: LOWER SUGAR OPTIONS:

  • Omit the glaze and it's still delicious!
  • Substitute sugar in batter for maple sugar. The color will be more beige like the sugar. We use this organic maple sugar.
  • Create a fruit syrup or chocolate syrup instead of glaze, using maple syrup or honey to sweeten.

TIP 5 - LOWER FAT OPTION:

  • Use low fat cream cheese.
  • Use half the cheese / sugar batter for a lighter, thinner pastry.

TIP 6 - KEEP DOUGH REFRIGERATED

Keep the crescent dough refrigerated until ready to use to keep it from getting sticky and hard to work with.

Healthier Tweaks, if You Must 😉

If you want a treat but would like to modify the sugar and fat content a little, there are substitutions you can make that also work well. We often use substitutions to reduce sugar and improve nutrition without sacrificing delight.

For a lighter, less dense danish, you can use half the amount of cream cheese filling. Just halve all but the egg ingredients as well and it’s still very good. You can also choose low fat cream cheese. However, it will be more pastry and less filling, so we favor the full amount.

If you use the half filling method, it will probably bake in less time, more like 30-35 minutes.

Or just go all out and enjoy your treat! 😋

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Easy Breakfast Cheese Danish

Lori "Tried today. There was too much cheese mixture which made for a gooey mess. if I make it again will cut cheese mixture in half."

Easy Breakfast Cheese Danish Recipe (Modified)

If you found that there was too much cheese mixture in the original recipe, here's a modified version to address the issue and prevent a gooey mess:

Ingredients (Modified):

  • 1 can ready-to-use refrigerated crescent rolls 
  • 1 package (8-ounce) cream cheese 
  • 1/2 cup sugar 
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 
  • 1 egg 
  • 1 egg white + 1 Tbsp milk or water (for egg wash) 
  • 1/4 cup powdered sugar (for glaze) 
  • 1/4 tsp vanilla extract (for glaze) 
  • 1 tbsp milk (for glaze)

Instructions (Modified):

  1. Follow steps 1-4 from the original recipe. 
  2. In a bowl, beat together cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, and egg until smooth (using half the amount of cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla as in the original recipe). 
  3. Spread the reduced amount of cream cheese mixture evenly over the first layer of crescent rolls. 
  4. Continue with steps 7-12 from the original recipe👆. By cutting the cheese mixture in half, you should have a less gooey consistency in your danish. Enjoy your modified and less cheesy breakfast cheese danish!

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This Cheese Danish recipe is so easy to make, that yes, even my husband has made this one before!
This is a quick and easy recipe for cheese danish that my family simply adores. We love it best still warm from the oven, but it will keep well for a couple of days if it’s well covered and placed in the refrigerator.
It also reheats well in the microwave for a few seconds. Try this simple recipe for your own family and see if they don’t rave about it too!


Ingredients:

  • 2 cans ready to use refrigerated crescent rolls
  • 2 8-ounce packages cream cheese
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 egg
  • 1 egg white
  • Glaze:
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  • 2 Tablespoons milk
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350* degrees and grease a 13X9-inch baking pan.
  2. Lay a pack of crescent rolls in the pan and pinch the openings together.
  3. Beat the cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, and egg together until smooth.
  4. Spread the mixture over the crescent rolls evenly and then lay the second pack of crescent rolls on top of the cheese mixture and brush with egg white.
  5. Bake for 35-45 minutes until the top is golden brown.
  6. Top with glaze after cooling for 20 minutes.

Side Notes:

You can make this danish using low fat cream cheese and splenda (sugar substitute) and it’s delicious!
Original recipe calls for makes a VERY heavily filled danish. You can halve the filling using 1 package of cream cheese, 1/2 cup of sugar, 1 whole egg, and a 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract – still very good. If you use the half filling method, bake for closer to 30-35 minutes.



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