Cherry Cheese Danish For A Crowd

Total Time: 44 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 24 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, room temperature
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 (8 ounce) tubes refrigerated crescent dinner rolls
• 1 (21 ounce) can cherry pie filling
• 1 egg yolk, beaten with
• 1 teaspoon water
• powdered sugar

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 350*.
• 2 lightly grease or spray a large cookie sheet (with sides) or a jelly roll pan. i've found that a 10" x 13" cookie sheet works best.
• 3 in a medium sized bowl, mix cream cheese, sugar, egg and vanilla until smooth.
• 4 remove dough from 1 crescent roll tube.
• 5 unroll and place it in middle of the prepared pan. pat out with fingers, pressing perforations together, until dough completely covers bottom of pan.
• 6 warm in oven 4 minutes until slightly dry. this will set the bottom crust.
• 7 remove from oven and cool slightly.
• 8 spread cheese mixture over dough evenly to edges.
• 9 scatter cherry pie filling evenly over cheese.
• 10 unroll remaining sheet of crescent roll dough and separate into 8 triangles on top of cherries filling.they should not cover the surface completely; just be sure to space them evenly. *another option is to tear the 8 triangles into small 1" pieces and randomly scatter them over the top of the pie filling.
• 11 brush triangles or 1" pieces with egg glaze.
• 12 bake 20-30 minutes or until top crust is golden and cheese mixture is set.
• 13 cool in pan on wire rack before dusting with powdered sugar.