Baked apple with cream cheese

Everything about these cream cheese danishes will bring holiday joy to your kitchen! Twirls of crescent dough layered with cream cheese and baked with a pool of strawberry jam and a buttery baked apple with cream cheese on top to finish. Add in those sugared cranberries to bring it right over the top! This recipe is sponsored by ALDI.

These cream cheese danishes are a thing of beauty! Croissant dough layered with cream cheese, twisted up and baked with a pool of jam on top, and a drizzle of buttery glaze to finish. The sugared cranberries on top are just the bonus for decoration and a bite of tart crunch. Hoo, wow, I’ve been eating them on the reg lately, and those layers of cream cheesy goodness hit just right when they are warm out of the oven. If you want to go all-out, some streusel crumbles on top would make it extra-danishy! You’ll also need some ALDI essentials as your extras which, if you’re me, you already have in your fridge anyway: organic eggs, organic milk, butter, powdered sugar, and cranberries. Let them cool enough to get the glaze on there without melting into a puddle, and then just sink your teeth into this very festive, warm, buttery, cream cheese and fruit deliciousness.

2 cup sugar for 3-4 minutes. Make the cream cheese danishes: Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Unroll the croissant dough out into one flat piece, and place on a clean work surface. Use a rolling pin to roll it out and press the seams together. You want to make a solid rectangle that is just a bit bigger than the original shape.

Using a butter knife, spread the cream cheese evenly over the croissant dough. Cut the dough into 4 long strips. Roll the rope into a spiral to make the shape of the danish. Transfer to a parchment-lined baking sheet. Mix the egg and milk to make an egg wash. Brush each danish with egg wash and dollop each danish with 1-2 tablespoons of the jam.

400 and bake for 3-5 more minutes to get desired browning. Finish and glaze: Remove from oven and let cool. While cooling, whisk the glaze ingredients together. The glaze is designed to set fast, so that you don’t have to wait too long or make too much of a mess to eat these!

So once you mix it up, don’t wait too long to use it or it will set and become harder to drizzle. When you sprinkle the sugar over the cream cheese, it might create a less-smooth texture with the cream cheese. But if it bothers you visually or texturally, you can always just use electric mixers to get your cream cheese and sugar worked together before you start spreading it on the dough. Thank you to ALDI for sponsoring this recipe! I used to be a teacher, and now making food and writing about it online is my full-time job. I love talking with people about food, and I’m so glad you’re here.

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