Description
This is a great recipe and looks like it came from a professional bakery. It isn’t hard–just a little time-consuming.
Ingredients
- 1 (24 ounce) carton cottage cheese
- 3 apples – peeled, cored and thinly sliced
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, at room temperature
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 (17.5 ounce) package frozen puff pastry, thawed
- 3 tablespoons white sugar for decoration
Instructions
- Place the cottage cheese in a strainer lined with cheesecloth or heavy-duty paper towels. Pat dry with paper towels and set aside for 5 to 10 minutes.
- Place apples in a bowl
- and sprinkle with lemon juice to prevent browning.
- Combine the cream cheese
- drained cottage cheese
- 1/2 cup sugar
- egg
- and vanilla extract in the bowl of an electric mixer
- and mix 1 to 2 minutes on high speed
- until almost smooth.
- Preheat an oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Cut each of the puff pastry sheets into 9 pieces; you should have 18 total. Roll the pieces out
- one at a time
- to make 5 x 5-inch squares. To ensure the pastries puff up
- avoid using too much pressure or rolling over the edges of the dough.
- Place a square in front of you so that it looks like a diamond. Spoon a generous amount of cheese filling down the middle of each square
- leaving 1/4 inch of room at the top and bottom edges. Fan out 4-5 slices of apple down the center of each cheese-filled square. Bring the left and right corners together to meet in the center and pinch to seal.
- Transfer the Danish to a baking sheet and repeat with the remaining pastries. Sprinkle sugar over each bundle and bake in the preheated oven until the pastry is golden brown
- about 20 minutes.
Prep Time: 55 mins
Cook Time: 20 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins
Servings: 18