The Easiest Cheese Danish Recipe 🥐

Hi Bold Bakers! Cheese Danishes are a staple for breakfast when you're out and about — but they're even better when you make my Cheese Danish recipe at home.

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🥣INGREDIENTS🥄

Danish Dough
* 1 ½ cups (7 ½ oz/213 g) all-purpose flour
* 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
* 2 teaspoons instant yeast
* ½ teaspoon salt
* 1 cup (8 oz/225 g) cold butter, cubed
* 1 large egg
* 6 tablespoons (3 fl oz/90 ml) whole milk
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Cream Cheese Filling
* ½ cup (4 oz/115 g) cream cheese, softened
* 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
* 1 large egg yolk
* ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
* Egg wash, for glazing

🥐📋 Cheese Danish Recipe Chapters 📋🥐
00:00 - This week on Bigger Bolder Baking...
0:13 Making the dough (Dry ingredients)
2:02 Making the dough (wet ingredients)
2:28 Wrapping and chilling the dough
3:08 Rolling out the dough
7:35 Making the filling
8:45 Cutting and shaping the dough
11:25 Filling the dough
11:45 Proofing the danishes
12:25 Baking instructions
12:43 Tasting!

📌 ABOUT GEMMA & BIGGER BOLDER BAKING 📌
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[katioconnor]

Lovely and easy, haven't made a croissant dough in years, this will be my go to .... I have guests coming next week and will be making this recipe for us to enjoy....Thankyou Gemma!! USA - Idaho

[BiggerDreamer]

love from botswana u saved my restaurant...inspired me to be more inspired and creative

[selinadudley]

Cheese danishs are my favorite! Thank you for sharing this recipe! ❤

[JudyNiemeyer]

Thank you for giving a written recipe that we can upload!

[bionicbunny]

Cheese danish looks amazing Gemma hope you get to have a great summer.

[olamuyiwaojo]

Gemma your desserts are always lovely thank you so much for sharing your years of Baking with us❤❤❤🎉🎉🍫🍭❣❣

[kingsdaughter]

Great Job Gemma, these turned out Beautiful 👏. Can’t wait to try my hand at making them. Thanks, sweet Irish ☘️ girl. Blessings to you and your beautiful Family 💞

[daniyalkhizar]

Thank you for making a video of this recipe! I’ve been wanting to make this for so long but I was looking for a video to guide me ❤ 😁

[helenkozerski]

You've just made my week🎉Thank you!! Have an awesome weekend!!

[ChristineHK]

Cheese Danish!! I haven' had that since I left New York. I love Cheese Danish!! Definitely going to print out this recipe! All hat rollling and folding reminds me of the one time in my life I made croissants! They came out fantastic and were gone in a flash; they were so good.

[marilynjohnson]

Thanks for making this process easier. Will definitely make this!

[patwagner]

My mouth literally waters when I see this picture of cheese Danish. 😋

[melmil]

Gemma, you had me at Danish!!! l love them more than any other dessert. Absolutely amazing recipe l will definitely be making these today. ❤🇦🇺

[mmakomanyatja]

Many thanks Gemma so easy nd simple bless to your family 🙏

[simplebirthdaycakes]

Thank you for sharing it looks delicious! I will try it.

[BakingCorner-ceyq]

It's really delicious! Thanks for sharing.❤

[sandyreyes-zq]

my brother michael love cheese danish i will make them for him thanks gemma you are amazing.

[AussieAngeS]

those look absolutely amazing! wow all those layer are magnificent

[sarahwatters]

They are orgasmic! Can you freeze the dough? I would love to see a video on a batch bulk pastry. One where you turn it into various items like you do with your cookies ❤❤❤

[AnilKumar-khrh]

Hi Bigger bolder baking chef Iam from India I search for this recepi it's sooo good yummy I remember my childhood