Candy Cane Cherry Cheese Danish

Candy Cane Cherry Cheese Danish Recipe is an incredibly delicious puff pastry dessert with cream cheese and cherry filling, formed as a candy cane for Christmas and all your holiday gatherings!

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INGREDIENTS

– Cream cheese – Sugar – Egg yolk – Vanilla extract – Lemon juice – Puff pastry – Cherry pie filling – Powdered sugar – Milk – Egg – Water

Step 1

Combine cream cheese, sugar, egg yolk, vanilla, lemon juice, and a pinch of salt. Beat with a hand mixer on medium speed until everything is creamed and combined. Set it aside.

Step 2

Place one sheet of puff pastry on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Roll it into a rectangle.

Step 3

Add half of the cream cheese filling onto the pastry sheet and spread it down the center of the rectangle about 2-3 inches wide.

Step 4

Next, add half of the cherry filling and spread it over the cream cheese mixture. You should now have a 2-3 inch wide spread of cheese danish filling all the way down the center of the length of the rectangle pastry sheet.

Step 5

Use a pizza cutter to cut skinny strips about 1” wide along the length of both sides of the filling. 

Step 6

Braid the pastry by folding the strips from both sides so that they meet in the middle and overlap. Once you’ve formed the log of unbaked danish, you can then take one end of it and curve it gently to form it into a candy cane shape!

Step 7

Repeat the entire process with the second puff pastry sheet for two candy cane pastries, if serving a large crowd.

Step 8

Brush the assembled cheese danish with egg wash and bake for 25-28 in a preheated 400-degree oven. Once golden brown, remove it from the oven and drizzle with a powdered sugar glaze made with milk and powdered sugar.

Step 9

Garnish with extra cherries and a dusting of powdered sugar if desired. Enjoy!

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