Easy Breakfast Cheese Danish

Breakfast pastries on a white plate with a blue napkin

Have a craving for a homemade easy breakfast cheese Danish but are short on time? These beauties are easy to whip up using prepared frozen puff pastry, cream cheese and ready-made pie filling. You will be enjoying these lovelies in no time!

Prep Time30

Cook Time15

Total Time45

Servings: pastries

Calories: 226kcal

Author: Heavenly Home Cooking

Ingredients

1 8-oz. package cream cheese Use a good brand like Philadelphia
2 large eggs divided
⅓ cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 sheets frozen puff pastry thawed in the refrigerator
1½ - 2 cups fruit pie filling suggested: cherry, apple, blueberry, blackberry
4-6 slices fresh pear cut into thin slices (optional)
ground cinnamon To taste. (optional)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400°F (204°C). Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
In a medium bowl, beat cream cheese and one egg with an electric mixer until smooth. Beat in sugar and vanilla.
On a piece of parchment paper, roll one puff pastry sheet into a 10½-inch square. Cut into nine 3½-inch squares.
Carefully move parchment paper to a baking sheet. Prick each pastry square center several times with a fork. Leave about ½-inch of edges untouched.
In a small bowl, combine second egg and 1 tablespoon of water. Use a pastry brush to brush mixture over each pastry square.
Spread each square with 1 tablespoon of the cream cheese mixture.
Top each square with pie filling or sliced apple or pear. Sprinkle ground cinnamon on the squares that contain the sliced fruit.
Bake 15-18 minutes or until golden. Remove and let cool on wire racks.
Repeat steps 1-7 with remaining puff pastry.

Notes

Nutrition information is for one pastry square.

Recipe slightly adapted from Better Homes & Gardens' Cream Cheese Danishes.

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