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This easy Blackberry and Cream Cheese Danish took just a couple of minutes to throw together, but tastes like it came straight from a pastry shop. To say we loved it would be an understatement.
This makes a great breakfast (we love serving it on Christmas morning!), brunch, or even dessert recipe. And we love how easy it is to double or customize.
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Recipe Ingredient Notes
To make Blackberry and Cream Cheese Danish, you will need the following ingredients:
- Cream cheese
- Sugar
- Vanilla
- Flour
- Pillsbury Crescent rolls , or crescent roll sheet
- Blackberry pie filling
- Fresh blackberries
Icing
- Powdered sugar
- Heavy cream
- Vanilla
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:
How to make Blackberry and Cream Cheese Danish
- Preheat oven to 375℉.
- In a small bowl, combine cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, and flour. Set aside.
- Open crescent roll dough and unroll, leaving crescents all together in one large rectangle
- On an ungreased baking sheet, lay the crescent roll rectangle. The dough should be almost the entire length of a half sheet pan. (If you’re not using a crescent roll sheet, be sure to press edges together to even out edges and seal any holes.)
- Cut ½ inch diagonal strips up each side of the dough.
- Carefully spread cream cheese filling down the center of the dough to be about 2-3 inches wide. Top with blackberry pie filling or fresh blackberries (or both). You may not need to use the whole can, just enough to cover it well.
- Fold ½ inch dough pieces up over filling alternating sides to get a braided pattern. You may have excess dough once you reach the end of the danish, so fold them in as best as you can.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes or until filling is set and crescent dough is golden in color. Cool before removing from baking sheet.
- Once danish has cooled, remove to serving platter.
Other Variations
We think the blackberries in this recipe are delicious, but you could easily make any flavor you’d like. Here are some of our favorites:
- Apples and cinnamon
- Cherry
- Just the cream cheese filling with almond slices on top
- Raspberry filling with a thin layer of Nutella added inside, too
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Blackberry and Cream Cheese Danish Recipe
This Blackberry and Cream Cheese Danish is flaky, buttery croissant braided and stuffed with cream cheese and blackberries.
Serving servings
Ingredients
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 Tablespoon flour
- 8 ounce tube Pillsbury Crescent rolls , or crescent roll sheet
- 21 ounces blackberry pie filling
- 1 cup fresh blackberries
Icing
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 2 Tablespoon heavy cream
- ⅛ teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375℉.
- In a small bowl, combine cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, and flour. Set aside.
- Open crescent roll dough and unroll, leaving crescents all together in one large rectangle
- On an ungreased baking sheet, lay the crescent roll rectangle. The dough should be almost the entire length of a half sheet pan. (If you're not using a crescent roll sheet, be sure to press edges together to even out edges and seal any holes.)
- Cut ½ inch diagonal strips up each side of the dough.
- Carefully spread cream cheese filling down the center of the dough to be about 2-3 inches wide. Top with blackberry pie filling or fresh blackberries (or both). You may not need to use the whole can, just enough to cover it well.
- Fold ½ inch dough pieces up over filling alternating sides to get a braided pattern. You may have excess dough once you reach the end of the danish, so fold them in as best as you can.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes or until filling is set and crescent dough is golden in color. Cool before removing from baking sheet.
- Once danish has cooled, remove to serving platter.
Icing
- In a small bowl, whisk together powdered sugar, vanilla and cream to create icing.
- You may need to add more cream to get the desired consistency. Drizzle icing over danish. Cut into pieces and serve.
Notes
We think the blackberries in this recipe are delicious, but you could easily make any flavor you’d like. Here are some of our favorites:
- Apples and cinnamon
- Cherry
- Just the cream cheese filling with almond slices on top
- Raspberry filling with a thin layer of Nutella added inside, too
Nutrition
Calories: 401 kcal · Carbohydrates: 71 g · Protein: 4 g · Fat: 12 g · Saturated Fat: 6 g · Polyunsaturated Fat: 2 g · Monounsaturated Fat: 2 g · Cholesterol: 20 mg · Sodium: 335 mg · Potassium: 193 mg · Fiber: 3 g · Sugar: 53 g · Vitamin A: 267 IU · Vitamin C: 4 mg · Calcium: 70 mg · Iron: 1 mg
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.
Looks delicious and easy!
I always thought that danishes were hard to make, but I have got to try this! I think I better start working out more, since I feel like I HAVE to make all your delicious recipes. 🙂
Oh,YUM! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Ashton
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Do you think this freezes well? Would you cook first then freeze?
oh my! this looks so delish! saving it!
stacey
Blackberry is one of my favs!! I’m so pinning this!!
I love this recipe, but had a really hard time with the dough cooking all the way through. Did anyone else have this problem? If so how did you fix it??
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Made this morning and it was super easy and delish! Im going to try to freeze a few pieces and see how it goes. I had the same problem with cooking all the way through, it really needs the 15-20 minutes even thiugh it gets golden brown first. My oven is hot so I turned it down a bit for the last 5 minutes so they didn’t burn.
such a great idea!! wan this..now!!
Oh fun! I made one exactly like this a while back! So easy, right?
I shared this recipe on my blog after I made it. It was so easy, and so very yummy! thanks!
Can i make these in individual small pieces instead of one large one then cutting it?
That should work. Watch them closely because the cooking time may not be as long.
You can get crescent rolls in one large sheet now. Not all places have it, but if you look closely, this will make it easier!
Sisters, I cannot visualize what you did with the dough and triangles. Can you post a picture or provide some clarification. They look wonderful!
Hi Lori, I understand that this can be kind of confusing. Open your dough and when you unroll it you will have two rectangles that have 4 rolls hooked together with seams. You will want to place one rectangle on the cookie sheet so that it’s a horizontal rectangle (lying down). Then place the other on right above it so that they are touching. Then with your finger gently push on all the seams of each roll and where the two pieces connect so that they don’t come apart during cooking. So you basically have one big seamless rectangle dough sheet (Pillsbury also makes crescent roll dough like this now which would save you this crazy step) spread out on your cookie sheet. It really will only take you one minute to do this, just sounds complicated for your first time. Then with kitchen scissors or a knife make 1/2 inch slits up both sides of the dough. About 1 inch apart. Then you add all the ingredients down the center. Then carefully starting at one end pull on piece of dough from the side and cross over the filling, then pull from the other side and cross that dough over. Just continue down with a weaving/braiding pattern. That’s all there is to it. Hope this helps. Let me know if I can answer anymore questions.
Cyd (mom of the Six Sisters)
Your instruction above to Lori to cut 1/2″ strips “about 1 inch apart on both side” is very helpful to me. I made this and it was a very yummy mess because I did not get the braid correct.
Also the ingredient list says “1 tube …rolls”. I guessed 8oz with 8 rolls. Are you leaving the size off so we can choice what we like? Or is one size better than another?
Thank you
It’s the 8 ounce tube of crescent roll dough. Pillsbury also makes a seamless dough that is great with recipe too and is 8 ounces.
Can you put this together the night before and bake in the morning??
It should work fine. Cover with plastic wrap and keep in the fridge overnight.
Would this work with puff pastry?
Yes, Puff pastry should work too.
If using fresh blackberries do you have to cook them down to make a “filling”???
In the picture we used both blackberry pie filling and fresh blackberries for the recipe. You can just fresh blackberries if you want. We like it with the gooey pie filling.