Easy Cheese Danish

Name: Easy Cheese Danish
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 227 grams cream cheese, at room temperature; 1 egg beaten with 1 tablespoon water, for egg wash; 2 extra larges egg yolks, at room temperature; 0 teaspoons kosher salt; 1 Tbsp grated lemon zest (2 lemons); 2 sheets (1 box) frozen puff pastry, defrosted; 2 Tbsps ricotta cheese; 79 milliliters sugar; 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Easy Cheese Danish is a vegetarian recipe with 8 servings. This recipe covers 8% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains approximately 8g of protein, 35g of fat, and a total of 497 calories. 17 people found this recipe to be tasty and satisfying. A couple people really liked this side dish. If you have puff pastry, ricotta cheese, vanillan extract, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper.

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Baking Paper

Oven

Frying Pan

Place the cream cheese and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and cream them together on low speed until smooth. With the mixer still on low, add the egg yolks, ricotta, vanilla, salt, and lemon zest and mix until just combined. Don't whip!

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Cream Cheese

Lemon Zest

Egg Yolk

Ricotta Cheese

Vanilla

Cream

Sugar

Salt

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Hand Mixer

Blender

Bowl

Unfold 1 sheet of puff pastry onto a lightly floured board and roll it slightly with a floured rolling pin until it's a 10 by 10-inch square.

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Puff Pastry Sheets

Roll

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Rolling Pin

Cut the sheet into quarters with a sharp knife.

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Knife

Place a heaping tablespoon of cheese filling into the middle of each of the 4 squares.

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Cheese

Brush the border of each pastry with egg wash and fold 2 opposite corners to the center, brushing and overlapping the corners of each pastry so they firmly stick together.

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Egg