Looking for a way to use up cranberry sauce? This easy Cranberry Cream Cheese Crescent Danish pastry is a delightful treat. The best part? Use canned crescent dough as the base to make this recipe super simple! These cheesy Danish pastries can be filled with all types of jelly or jams if you don't have cranberry sauce on hand. Raspberry jelly is one of my favorite substitutions!
How do you make a Cranberry Cream Cheese Crescent Danish pastry using crescent dough? Start by separating your crescent dough into squares (not the precut triangles!). I mush together the seams so there aren't any holes.
Next, whip together some softened cream cheese, lemon, vanilla and sugar, and scoop a big spoonful onto each square.
Dollop your sauce or jam next, then fold up all of the edges to the middle so the filling doesn't spill out while baking.
Bake for 10 - 12 minutes, top with some glaze and enjoy a major sugar rush! To make the glaze, mix together some powdered sugar, lemon juice, vanilla, and warm water. Let the Danish pastries cool before drizzling it on!
This recipe makes eight Danish pastries, but you could certainly cut it in half if you don't need that much sugar on hand. We keep our leftovers in the fridge. You can reheat your leftovers by sticking them in a 300 degree oven for about 5 minutes or until they are warmed through. Or just eat them cold straight out of the fridge!
If you love this recipe I would love to know! You can rate this recipe and leave a comment, and tag a photo on Instagram @hungrywaitress! Here?s the recipe:
Print
Easy Cranberry Cream Cheese Crescent Danish
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 8 1x
Description
Looking for a way to use up cranberry sauce? This easy Cranberry Cream Cheese Crescent Danish pastry is a delightful treat.
Ingredients
- 1 8oz package cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 8oz cans crescent dough
- 1/2 cup leftover cranberry sauce | sub raspberry, peach, strawberry jam
Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon lemon
- 2 Tablespoons hot water
Instructions
- Heat oven to 375 degrees.
- Whip together 8 ounces cream cheese, 1/4 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, and 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract until smooth.
- Divide each can of crescent dough into four squares on a baking sheet.
- Add roughly 1 tablespoon of both the cream cheese mixture and jam onto the crescent squares.
- Fold up the edges of the crescent dough to make little nests and bake for 10-12 minutes.?
- Whisk together the glaze (powdered sugar, vanilla, lemon, hot water) and drizzle over the cooled Danishes.
- Prep Time: 10
- Cook Time: 10
Leave a Reply