How to make Cheese Danish – Recipe by Laura Vitale – Laura in the Kitchen Episode 71

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Hi guys I’m Laura Vitale and on this episode of Laura in the kitchen I’m going to show you how to make homemade cheese danishes they’re so so good and they’re very easy to make very few ingredients most of them you probably already have in your fridge um I love

Them like I said they’re easy they’re so good I mean who doesn’t love a good cheese danish and today they’re not gonna come out of any box any bag that you tear open you eat just like a stale one of them be nice warm and fresh and

Puffy and delicious okay let me show you what you gonna need so we can get started one sheet of frozen puff pastry thawed cream cheese sour cream egg yolk lemon zest sugar whip egg wash and some vanilla extract like I said this is very easy to make and wait till you see how

Good they are it’s unbelievable okay first thing to do we’re gonna make our filling we need 4 ounces of plain cream cheese and it’s important that your ingredients are at room temperature well except for the puff pastry you kind of want to have that phone in the fridge because otherwise and become really

Difficult to work with now I’m going to need some sour cream about a tablespoon of sour cream now I like to put sour cream in it just because it gives a little bit more of a tang and I love that we need an egg yolk to bind it we

Need some lemon zest the lemon zest is key here because without the lemon zest you’re not going to get that delicious cheese danish the lemon zest is very important it really just kind of cuts the heaviness of it then we’re gonna need 3 tablespoons of sugar

You’re gonna need a little bit of a know about 1/2 I have a teaspoon if I can get it open 1/2 a teaspoon of vanilla and the egg wash over there is just an egg with a little bit of water that I beat together so they can brush it on top of

My pastries and also it’s gonna act like glue okay you want to just mix this together I’m going to switch to a whisk I’m just make each other combined that’s perfect you just want to mix oh you don’t want to overmix it cuz you don’t want to like whip it okay we had

That done I think it’s gonna be four which I got a really really good for as soon as they come out of the oven I love to dig into one like five minutes later and then I’m gonna have to breakfast where I wanted the difference is some coffee

Alright this is a puff pastry I’ve let the star out in the fridge now if you want to and I don’t know why you would want to you can make your own puff pastry speaking from experience it’s very tedious it takes a long time and

You kind of have to it’s like a layer it’s a layer between a pastry and butter it’s very very tedious so I buy the supermarket it’s in my freezer section and it’s like three dollars for two sheets of them and in this case we’re going to use one but you can always just

Double up the ingredients and just make eight of them if you have guests coming over now we’re going to flour our board just a bit because I want to roll it out until it’s about like ten by ten and I want to make sure to flour my rolling pin there we go

And this is so awesome when it when it bakes puff pastry when it bakes the butter the little pieces of butter which you can actually see they kind of puff up and then make so amazing you can see all the little pieces in there it’s pretty awesome like I said to make it

From scratch if you want to go right ahead and I’ll give you props but you really don’t have to okay got this well floured and now we’re just gonna roll it out a little bit more not too too much like that that’s about right you don’t have to actually measure anything I’m

Not going to come to your house with a ruler measure so cut this in quarters however there we go that looks about right now take each one take a tablespoon of your filling roughly a tablespoon put it right in the center and it looks like it’s not a lot

But it does spread out quite a bit you don’t want to fill these too much otherwise kind of soggy just basically divide your filling into four equal equal parts here okay taking your egg wash take a pastry brush and just all around the border of the

Pastry last one okay now we’re going to take the two opposite corners okay and just pinch them together and just drop them back down just like that and you’re going to have perfect cheese danishes pinch together make sure you do otherwise it kind of fall apart it really doesn’t matter

Poke one more okay now I want to transfer these on to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper like so and these are going to go into the fridge for about 30 minutes they do need to firm up the filling needs to firm up the patient needs to be nice and cold cold

Cold before it goes into the oven so it puffs up really nicely so it’s a fridge for about 30 minutes and then when I see you next we’ll be ready to bake them now guys I had these in the fridge for 30 minutes and meanwhile you want to

Pre-heat your oven to 400 cuz I’m gonna bake them now remember that egg wash we had leftover I’m just gonna brush the top of them because I want them to be really nice and shiny and glossy so that when they bake they get nice and golden and they puff up and they’re absolutely

Delicious just like so okie doke and these are ready to hit the oven 400 degrees 20 to 25 minutes so lightly golden brown and nice and puffy and then we’re going to try them out you bet we’re gonna try them out now guys these faced for about

25 minutes and as you can see they’re nicely golden and puffed up they look amazing and smell even better now that is cool for about five minutes you don’t need to let them cool cute too much I’m just going to put these on a plate while they look beautiful give them a

Nice sprinkling of confectioner sugar just like that tell me you’re gonna get that out of any box I think not now you and I did them together and we both saw how incredibly easy they were to me and now for your ingredients and when you taste them you will never ever buy

Another box up cheese danish when you can make them yourself just that easily and look at that you can hear the crunch there’s still warm see how incredible they are on the inside filling now Wow oh my goodness that is like price worthy it’s so incredible to get this recipe

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