Apple Cream Cheese Danish Braid

Apple Cream Cheese Danish Braid is a perfect way to use apples. For breakfast or dessert this makes a tasty delectable treat!

Do you ever feel like you have more apples than you know what to do with? If so, this Apple Cream Cheese Danish Braid is right up your alley. Filled with sweet tastes and of course, apples, you’ll never have to wonder what to do with your excess apples ever again.

Made with the simplest of ingredients like puff pastry instead of bread dough or a homemade pastry. You really can’t get much easier than this. It looks fancy but is super easy.

This can be made with just a few simple ingredients!

We absolutely love this apple recipe. While we tend to make it during the Fall, it’s hearty and delicious to make any time of the year. It’s amazing how the cream cheese and apple filling go perfectly together and make every single bite 100% enjoyable from start to finish.

Can you use other fruits for this Apple Cream Cheese Danish Braid?

You sure can! The great thing about this dessert is apples are readily available all year long. So this can be whipped up any time of year. We love the smell of apples and cinnamon cooking throughout the house so this get made all year long. You can of course use many different fruits to make this danish. We have used peaches when in season and strawberries and blueberries too. A mix of berries would be delicious also.

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Easy Apple Cream Cheese Danish Braid Recipe

There are actually a lot of different ways that you can enjoy this treat. From your morning coffee to an afternoon snack, you’ll find us noshing away at this apple treat anytime we happen to walk past it in the kitchen. And don’t forget brunch. You definitely need a couple of sweet treats to go with those egg dishes.

This can be made with crescent rolls but it won’t taste anywhere as good. The puff pastry is light flaky and puffy and although we love crescent rolls it won’t give you the same flavor. But it still would be good.

What exactly is a danish braid?

As you can see from the picture, it’s a danish pastry that’s pretty much braided to add a fun design and look. It still has the same taste and flavor as your other danish pastries but we just feel that the braid gives it a little bit cooler effect and look.

How to make this Apple Cream Cheese Danish Braid:

Cook apples, brown sugar, vanilla, and cinnamon in a saute pan over medium-high heat, stirring frequently, for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside.
Beat together cream cheese, powdered sugar, and heavy cream until smooth.
Fold your puff pastry into thirds and then lay out flat on a baking sheet. If you made your own, cut into a large rectangle.
Cut slits on each side of your pastry, pointed upwards diagonally, in ½ inch increments.
Generously spread cheesecake mixture over the middle third, tuck in the top and bottom flap, and then “braid” up each pastry piece, alternating, until you get to the end.
Brush with butter, and bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes or until golden and puffy.
Remove from oven, let cool.

When was the danish pastry invented?

Can you believe that Danish pastries have been around for hundreds of years?! Who knew that this wonderful dessert had such a long lifeline in history. It was originally said to have been started by Australian bakers and then introduced into Vienna during the 1850s but the dates go back even further than that.

We did find that it was introduced to America sometime during the early 1900s. The more you know, right?

Have fun creating this delicious Danish dessert. It’s a fun and simple recipe that looks like it took a very long time to make. But that will just be your little secret…Enjoy every single bite of this Apple Cream Cheese Danish Braid!