Quick and Easy Cream Cheese Danishes

• Vegetarian

• Refrigerated

  • 1 Egg

• Baking & Spices

  • 1 1/2 cup Cherry pie filling, canned
  • 1 Chocolate
  • 1 sheet Puff pastry dough
  • 4 tbsp Sugar
  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract

• Dairy

  • 8 oz Cream cheese

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Ingredients

• 1 sheet Puff Pastry dough, thawed
• 8 ounces Cream Cheese, softened
• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 4 Tbsp Sugar
• 1 1/2 cup canned  Cherry Pie Filling
• 1 Egg + 2 Tablespoons water, whisked for egg wash
• Shaved Chocolate, optional

Directions

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking sheet. On a lightly floured surface roll out thawed puff pastry into a 12×9″ rectangle. Cut in half lengthwise, yielding 2 4-½” strips. Cut those two strips crosswise into thirds, to yield six 4×4 ½” pieces. With a knife, score ½” border around the edge of each piece of puff pastry. Use a fork to make five or six pricks into the dough within the border of each piece. This will help keep the middle of each piece from rising. In a bowl, stir together softened cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla. Spoon about 2-3 tablespoons of mixture into the middle of each piece of dough and spread around evenly, ensuring the mix stays within the borders. In the middle of the cream cheese, add about 6 cherries into the middle. Bake for 20 minutes, on the middle rack and rotate the baking sheet half way through baking. Remove from baking sheet and cool on a wire rack. Serve warm or room temperature. Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving. Shave chocolate over the top as well, if desired.