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Easy Breakfast Cheese Danish Recipe

This super simple and easy breakfast cheese danish recipe will satisfy your sweet tooth craving without keeping you in the kitchen for too long.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Additional Time 25 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes

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.

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