These cookies taste like you are eating a Cherry Danish. So, I guess that means you can eat them for breakfast without any guilt!
Our families loved them. These cookies are perfect for Christmas, Valentine’s Day or a yummy cherry dessert on President’s Day.
Recipe Ingredient Notes
To make Cherry Danish Cookies, you will need the following ingredients:
- 1 cup butter softened
- 8 ounces cream cheese softened
- 1 Tablespoon milk
- 1 Tablespoon sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 ½ cups flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 30 ounces cherry pie filling
Glaze
- 1 ½ cups powdered sugar
- 2 Tablespoons milk
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:
How to make Cherry Danish Cookies
Cookies
- Preheat oven to 400 ℉.
- Beat butter, cream cheese, milk and sugar together.
- Then add egg yolk. Stir flour and baking powder into butter mixture to make a stiff dough. Works best if chilled overnight or for a few hours.
- Roll out dough ¼” thick. Cut into circles with a 2 inch round cookie cutter.
- Place on ungreased cookie sheet 1″ apart. Make an indent in each cookie with your thumb and fill with 1 teaspoon of cherry pie filling.
- Bake 10-12 minutes. Cool completely.
Glaze
- Mix powdered sugar and milk. If it’s too runny add more powdered sugar. If too thick, add a little milk. Mix until smooth.
- Put glaze in a sandwich baggie with the corner snipped off. Pipe the glaze onto the top of each cookie.
Storage Suggestions
If you manage to not eat the whole tray of cookies immediately, these Banana Cream Pudding Cookies store well. Once cookies have completely cooled, here is how you can store them:
- Refrigerator: Store in an airtight container in a single layer for up to 7 days in a refrigerator.
- Freezer: These cookies freeze well. However, we do not recommend stacking them. We also recommend placing them in an airtight container, or a large ziplock bag, with all the air sucked out of it. These will be good in the freezer for about 2-4 weeks.
What other pie filling could you make this recipe with?
I love cherries. Especially in the summer time, there is no better fruit. I love when they pop in my mouth and how sweet and delicious they taste.
If you are looking for a simple and delicious cherry recipe, this is definitely one you need to try. If you don’t like cherries, or can’t eat them for some reason, don’t panic, you can easily substitute them for another pie filling.
Here are a few that we recommend:
- Strawberry Pie Filling
- Apple Pie Filling
- Raspberry Pie Filling
- Blueberry Pie Filling
- Rhubarb Pie Filling
Really any favorite pie filling would work for this recipe. You could also use fresh fruit if you are looking for a lower sugar, option.
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Cherry Danish Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 Tablespoon milk
- 1 Tablespoon sugar
- 1 egg, yolk
- 1 ½ cups flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 30 ounces cherry pie filling
Glaze
- 1 ½ cups powdered sugar
- 2 Tablespoons milk
Instructions
Cookies
- Preheat oven to 400 ℉.
- Beat butter, cream cheese, milk and sugar together.
- Then add egg yolk. Stir flour and baking powder into butter mixture to make a stiff dough. Works best if chilled overnight or for a few hours.
- Roll out dough ¼" thick. Cut into circles with a 2 inch round cookie cutter.
- Place on ungreased cookie sheet 1" apart. Make an indent in each cookie with your thumb and fill with 1 teaspoon of cherry pie filling.
- Bake 10-12 minutes. Cool completely.
Glaze
- Mix powdered sugar and milk. If it's too runny add more powdered sugar. If too thick, add a little milk. Mix until smooth.
- Put glaze in a sandwich baggie with the corner snipped off. Pipe the glaze onto the top of each cookie.
Notes
Nutrition
Did You Make This Recipe?We’d love to hear your thoughts! Leave a review or a question in the comment section below the post.
Oh yum. I might add a tiny bit of almond extract to the cookie dough. I LOVE almond and cherry together.
Oh. My. Wow. I love these!
These look like little danishes!
Sheree
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These look awesome! I will have to share this with my mom…she’s the cookie lady! Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Yum!! I’m thinking this would be great with apple pie filling. YUM-again!
These look great! I love anything with cherries, but I bet you could add any pie filling flavor.
Thanks for sharing.
Bev
I’m a sucker for a good cookie and these look so delicious! Thanks for linking to Simple Supper Tuesday! Hope to see you next week :o)
YUM. I’m such a sucker for cherries 🙂 Thanks so much for sharing at Super Saturday Show & Tell today… I’m so glad you came to party with me!! love you guys!! See ya next weekend. xoxo~ Ruthie
You gals were my inspiration for my linky party! These look delicious and oh so pretty! I’d love for you to come over to Finding the Pretty & Delicious Linky party and share your fun idea Party closes Tuesday evening!
I just started making these and saw that the only sugar in the cookie itself is 1 Tbsp. Has anyone else made these and if so, I would love to know if 1 Tbsp of suger works?
It really is just 1 Tablespoon of sugar. These are so moist and delicious!
Awesome….Thank you for your respose. They are in the refer right now and I can’t wait to bake them. I know this will be one of my husbads favorite.
I love cherry anything and everything. These cookies look fantastic.
I made these and they were delicious. I also made them using apple pie filling that I diced. Will make again. Next time I will try almond extract to the dough as suggested by other comments.
I’m making these, now. I did everything in the direction. My dough came out sticky v:(
Try adding a little more flour to the dough and see if that helps.
I want to make these cookies, they look so good! My question is….if you roll it out to 1/4″, how does that give you any room for indenting enough to be able to fill it??
Hi Linda, just press each cookie to make a little indent. You don’t want to push hard and break through the dough to the cookie sheet. A teaspoon of cherry pie filling isn’t very much. Maybe 2 cherries max and some cherry gel. Hope it all goes well! Merry Christmas!
These are so good! Can I freeze them?
These cookies should freeze fine in an airtight freezer container.