Apple Danish Braid
Source of Recipe
Pampered Chef
List of Ingredients
1 pkg. (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
1/3 cup powdered sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup pecans, chopped
2 pkgs. refrigerated crescent rolls
2 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, and sliced
1 TBS. sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 TBS. maple-flavored syrup
Recipe
Preheat oven to 375F. In a bowl, combine cream cheese and powdered sugar until well blended. Add egg mixing until smooth. Chop pecans. Unroll 1 pkg. of crescent dough; do not separate. arrange longest sides of dough across width of 12 x 15" rectangle baking stone. Repeat with remaining pkg. of dough. Roll dough to seal perforations.
On longest sides of baking stone, cut dough into strips 1-1/2" apart, 3" deep using pizza cutter (there will be 6" in the center for the filling). spread half of cream cheese mixture evenly over middle of dough. Peel, core and slice apples using A/P/C/S. Cut slices crosswise in half; evenly arrange apple slices over cream cheese mixture.
Combine sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over apples. Scoop remaining cream cheese mixture over apples; sprinkle with pecans. to braid, lift strips of dough across mixture to meet in center, twisting each strip one turn. Continue alternating strips to form a braid. Tuck ends under to seal at end of braid. Bake 25-28 min. or until deep golden brown. Remove from oven; brush w/ syrup using pastry brush. Cut & serve.
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