Orange Cheese Danish Pastry

Orange Cheese Danish Pastry
INGREDIENTS



1 cup (8 oz.) Sargento® Part-Skim Ricotta Cheese
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
2 Tbsp. butter, softened
1 Tbsp. all-purpose flour
2 tsp. grated orange rind
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 sheet (1/2 lb.) frozen puff pastry dough, thawed
1/2 cup confectioners sugar
1 Tbsp. orange juice
2 Tbsp. chopped walnuts or sliced almonds






DIRECTIONS
Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Baking Time: 25 minutes
Serves: 10



Combine cheese, sugar, egg, butter, flour, orange rind and vanilla in large bowl. Beat with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended.
Unfold pastry into rectangle; place on baking sheet. Make 2-inch-deep cuts at 1-inch intervals on long sides of pastry. Spread cheese mixture down center 3 inches of pastry. Crisscross strips over filling, alternating sides and bringing strips all the way across filling.
Bake in preheated 400°F oven 25 minutes or until bottom is golden brown.
Cool on wire rack. Mix confectioners sugar and orange juice in small bowl until smooth. Drizzle mixture over pastry; sprinkle with walnuts.



A great dish for that sweet tooth in the morning or late night snack.


Dany Eason
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