Cheese Danish
This very traditional, Polish sweet rolls are made with a slightly sweet yeast dough that is topped with sweet cheese filling, but can be filled with many other toppings. In Poland you can find them filled with any fruit, streusel, or mushroom.
This sweet rolls are usually considered a breakfast pastry, but you can serve them at any time of the day. They are a perfect snack on the go and you can buy them in one of the many bakeries.
Polish bakery is filled with the variety of sweet cakes, breads, pastries, cookies, doughnuts (paczki). It is very hard to pick just one , so usually I would leave the bakery with a full bag filled with yummy treats.
Prep: 30 min Bake: 20 min Oven: 350F Makes:12
Classic Yeast Dough
Ingredients:
1 package dry yeast
1 cup/250 ml warm milk
2 Tbl spoons sugar
4Tbl spoons butter (melted)
1 egg
½ tsp salt
500g / 3 1/2 cups flour
Cheese filling:
400g farmer’s cheese or 2- 8 oz cream cheese
2 egg yolks
1 tsp vanilla
1 Tbl sugar ( if you like it to be more sweet add more sugar here)
Additionally:
1 egg
Directions:
1.Preheat the oven to 350 F or if using convection oven 325F.
2.Dissolve yeast in warm milk in a large mixing bowl, add sugar, 1Tbl of flour; let stand 10 min. in a warm place.
3.Beat at low speed with an electric mixer and add egg, salt and gradually flour and butter until all ingredients make a soft dough.Place the dough in a greased bowl, cover with a towel and let stand for about 50 min. to an hour until dough doubles in size.
4.In the meantime prepare the filling by mixing all ingredients.
5. When dough is ready transfer it on a floured surface, knead a few tamest help get the air out. Portion the dough into 12 pcs, roll each piece into a circle. Place circles on two baking sheets lined with parchment paper, leaving 1-1 1/2 inch space between them. Leave them for 15 min. After 15 min. indent circles in the center and fill with the divided cheese filling.
6.Lightly beat an additional egg with the fork and carefully brush the dough (not cheese filling) with an egg.
7. Bake for about 20 min or until golden brown
8. Cool on the baking racks or how I like eat them warm.
*If not using convection oven switch baking sheets after 10 min ,so they bake evenly.
Smacznego!
