Raspberry Cream Cheese Danish Braid
Ingredients
RASPBERRY SAUCE
- ¾ cup raspberries
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1½ Tablespoons cornstarch
- ½ cup sugar
CREAM CHEESE FILLING
- 1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese, softened
- ⅓ cup sugar
- ½ teaspoon Almond Extract
PASTRY
- 1 box puff pastry (2 sheets), thawed to room temperature
FROSTING
- 1¼ cup powdered sugar
- ¼ Heavy Cream
- 1 teaspoon Almond Extract
- pinch of salt
Instructions
RASPBERRY SAUCE
- In a medium sauce pan, combine all the raspberry sauce ingredients ingredients and bring to a boil. Cook for 2 minutes. Set aside
CREAM CHEESE FILLING
- In a medium mixing bowl, combine cream cheese, sugar, and almond extract. Beat until smooth and creamy and set aside.
ASSEMBLY DIRECTIONS
- Open thawed puff pastry sheets on a flat working that has been sprinkled lightly with flour surface.
- Roll dough to make the square even. You aren't rolling to hard though, just lightly enough that you can get all the sides even. The dough will still look like a trifold with creases.
- With kitchen scissors, or a pizza cutter, make 9 even slits on both sides of the puff pastry, leaving the middle third of the 'trifold' untouched. BE CAREFUL NOT TO GO PAST THE FOLD LINES. Do this to both pastry sheets.
- Divide the cream cheese filling in half and carefully spread down the center of the pastry sheet of both pastries.
- Next carefully spoon some of the raspberry sauce over the cream cheese layer. Repeat for both pastures.
- Next starting at the top of the pasty fold the flaps diagonally and alternately over the raspberry layer. When you get to the end, tuck the ends under the pastry sheet. Repeat with remaining pastry. Place on cookie sheet line with parchment.
- Bake at 375 degrees F for 25 to 30 minutes or until golden brown.
- Cool for 10 minutes.
WHILE COOLING, PREPARE FROSTING.
- Combine all the ingredients in a small bowl and mix well. Drizzle the frosting over the top of pastry after it has been allowed its cooling time.
Yum! And Wow! This was super easy and looks so pretty!! Plus it's delicious. Puff pastry is amazing! I've never used it before and I'm hooked now. I liked making the raspberry sauce but you could also just use jam if you were in a pinch. I want to try different flavors like lemon and blueberry!
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