Cream Cheese Filling

Name: Cream Cheese Filling
Ingredients: 1 package, cream cheese (8 ounces/227 grams), cut into 1-inch pieces, at room temperature; 1/2 teaspoon, grated lemon zest from 1 lemon; 1/4 cup, sugar (1 3/4 ounces/50 grams)

Desserts or Baked Goods
Cheese
Quick
Breakfast & Brunch

Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2007

Tired of the dull-tasting, sticky-sweet Danish you buy at the store? This filling was one secret we found to great-tasting homemade Danish.

SERVES 16 (Makes enough for 16 individual Danish or 2 braids)

TIME 25 minutes

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