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  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 25 minutes
  • Yield: Serves: 10
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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

  1. Combine cheese, sugar, egg, butter, flour, orange rind and vanilla in large bowl. Beat with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended.
  2. 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.
  3. Bake in preheated 400°F oven 25 minutes or until bottom is golden brown.
  4. Cool on wire rack. Mix confectioners sugar and orange juice in small bowl until smooth. Drizzle mixture over pastry; sprinkle with walnuts.

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