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Quick and Easy Apple Cream Cheese Danish

Quick and Easy Apple Cream Cheese Danish -- A Pinch of Joy

Cream cheese sharpened with lemon and topped with cinnamony apple pie filling on a barely there crust — heavenly for breakfast. Or dessert. Or anytime.

Ingredients

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  • 2 packages crescent rolls
  • 2 packages cream cheese
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
  • 2 cans no-sugar apple pie filling
  • 1/3 cup butter (6 tablespoons), melted
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Unroll the two packages of crescent roll dough and pat out in ungreased 11×15 jellyroll pan or cookie sheet with sides, pressing perforations together.
  3. Place the cream cheese, vanilla, lemon and 1/3 cup sugar in medium mixing bowl. Beat until fluffy.
  4. Spread cream cheese mixture across the crescent roll dough.
  5. Top with apple pie filling, distributing evenly.
  6. Mix 1/3 cup sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle over the pie filling.
  7. Melt butter in microwave and drizzle over the top of everything.
  8. Bake at 350 for about 25 minutes until golden brown.