Appetizers & Side Dishes
Orange Cheese Danish Pastry
Prep Time: 15 min | Cook Time: 25 min | Servings: 10 | Calories: 134
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Prep Time
15 min
Cook Time
25 min
Servings
10
Calories
134
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
- 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.
