Mini Cherry Cheesecake Candy Cane Crescent Danishes
Updated Sep 23, 2019
There's truly no better way to begin Christmas morning than with these adorable mini candy cane-shaped crescent Danishes for breakfast! Top Pillsbury™ crescent rolls with sweetened cream cheese and cherry pie filling, then wrap and shape into festive candy canes. Once baked, drizzle each one with icing, and share with the people you love.
More About This Recipe
- These mini Danishes are reminiscent of our large-size Raspberry-Cream Cheese Candy Cane Crescent Danish, which is great for serving a crowd!
Mini Cherry Cheesecake Candy Cane Crescent Danishes
- Prep Time 25 min
- Total 50 min
- Ingredients 6
- Servings 4
Ingredients
- 4 oz (from 8-oz package) cream cheese, softened
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 can (8 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Original Crescent Rolls (8 Count) or 1 can (8 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Original Crescent Dough Sheet
- 3/4 cup cherry pie filling with more fruit (from 21-oz can)
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon milk
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 375°F. Line large cookie sheet with cooking parchment paper; spray with cooking spray.
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Step2In small bowl, beat cream cheese and granulated sugar with spoon until well blended.
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Step3For crescent rolls, unroll dough; separate into 4 rectangles. Pinch seams together. If using dough sheet, unroll dough; cut into four (6x4-inch rectangles). Place dough rectangles onto cookie sheet, short side closest to you, spacing them apart.
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Step4Spread 2 tablespoons of the cream cheese mixture onto left long side of dough, in a 2-inch-wide strip. Spread heaping 2 tablespoons of pie filling on top of cream cheese mixture; repeat for remaining dough, cream cheese mixture and pie filling.
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Step5Make six (1-inch) cuts on right side (with no filling); carefully fold over dough strips to enclose filling. Tuck ends of dough underneath bottom edge to attach. Gently pick up top end of dough, and curve one end to form top of candy cane; repeat.
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Step6Bake 13 to 18 minutes or until golden brown. In small bowl, mix powdered sugar and 1/2 teaspoon milk until well blended. If necessary, add additional drops of milk until thin enough to drizzle; drizzle onto crescents.
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Step7Use spatula to carefully transfer crescents from parchment to serving platter, loosening edges with spatula first, if needed.
Nutrition
400
Calories
19g
Total Fat
5g
Protein
51g
Total Carbohydrate
30g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Danish
- Calories
- 400
- Calories from Fat
- 170
- Total Fat
- 19g
- 29%
- Saturated Fat
- 10g
- 49%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 30mg
- 10%
- Sodium
- 520mg
- 21%
- Potassium
- 40mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 51g
- 17%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 30g
- Protein
- 5g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 8%
- 8%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 2%
- 2%
- Iron
- 8%
- 8%
Exchanges:
1 1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 3 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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