Easy Breakfast Cheese Danish Recipe With Crescent Rolls Dough

Name: Easy Breakfast Cheese Danish Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
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)

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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.

Easy Breakfast Cheese Danish 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

Sit cream cheese out to begin softening.
Preheat oven to 350* degrees
Grease a 13X9-inch baking pan. We like to use coconut oil.
Lay crescent roll sheet in the pan, pushing the dough gently out to the edges.
Beat together the cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, and egg until smooth.
Spread the mixture over the crescent rolls evenly.
Top cheese mixture with second pack of crescent rolls dough.
Brush with egg wash (egg white + 1 Tbsp milk or water)
Bake for 35-45 minutes until the top is golden brown
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! 😋

More Delicious Breakfast Recipes to Enjoy

Buttermilk blueberry breakfast – perfect with a cup of coffee

Easy breakfast casserole – easy and quick; make on Sunday or Monday for several days of breakfast at the ready… like an square omelette.

Breakfast quesadillas – this is for when you don’t want to a sweet breakfast.

Healthy & Delicious Sweet Potato Breakfast Hash and Eggs – roasted sweet potatoes with “baked” eggs.

This easy breakfast cheese Danish made with Crescent rolls is simple to make and perfect for every occasion! It’s one of my favorite brunch recipes and our family loves it on Christmas morning and on weekends. It comes together really quick: open up your crescent roll dough, add the cream cheese filling, bake and enjoy. #CheeseDanish #Danish #CrescentRolls #CrescentRollsRecipe #Homemade #Breakfast #Desserts #WithPieCrust — Original image source unknown. This image came with this website when we bought it and is prettier than ours. If you’re the owner, please contact us with proof and your name so we may give proper credit. Thanks! Cooks@RecipesAndMe.com