Semi Homemade Danish | Easy Breakfast | Crescent Sheets

cream cheese

🥗Healthier: Greek yogurt

💰Cheaper: ricotta

Greek yogurt reduces calories while maintaining creaminess.

puff pastry

🥗Healthier: phyllo dough

💰Cheaper: homemade dough

Phyllo dough is lower in fat and can be made from scratch easily.

fruit preserves

🥗Healthier: fresh fruit

💰Cheaper: canned fruit

Fresh fruit provides natural sweetness and is often cheaper.

butter

🥗Healthier: coconut oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Coconut oil is a healthier fat alternative.

Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C) with convection on.

Prepare blueberry pie filling by simmering a can of blueberries with other ingredients until thick.

Let the blueberry filling cool completely before using.

For the cream cheese filling, mix 8 ounces of room temperature cream cheese with lemon extract, sugar, and lemon zest until smooth.

Place the cream cheese filling into a disposable piping bag for ease of use.

Assemble the danishes on parchment paper on a baking sheet.

Spread cream cheese filling down the middle of the crescent roll dough.

Add fruit filling on top of the cream cheese, using less than a cup to avoid overflow.

Make cuts every inch on the sides of the dough and fold them over the filling.

Prepare an apple cinnamon crumble Danish using apple pie filling and topping with brown sugar crumb mix.

Cut and fold the apple Danish similarly to the cream cheese one.

Bake the danishes in the preheated oven for 20 minutes, rotating halfway if baking unevenly.

Let the danishes cool completely before glazing.

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