Homemade Cherry Danish
Ingredients
- Cherry pie filling (canned from the grocery store)
- Pepperidge Farm puff pasty sheets
- Egg Wash
- 1 package Cream Cheese
- 2 tbs Granulated Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Thaw out your puff pastry before these other steps!
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- Soften cream cheese by leaving it on your counter for about 30 minutes. Put it in a bowl with 2 tbs of sugar and 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract. Set aside.
- Cut your puff pastry into rectangle pieces.
- Using the back of a butter knife lightly press against the edges of the rectangle to make an outline around the whole pastry. Do not cut through the dough.
- Spoon cream cheese on the dough and spread.
- Add a spoonful of cherry pie filling.
- Using the egg wash brush the edges of the dough.
- Cook at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes. Make sure it's brown.
- Optional: Powdered sugar icing! Scoop about ½ cup of powdered sugar and 1 tbs of milk into a bowl. Pour on top of the pastry.