Cherry Cream Cheese Pastry Ring
This cherry cream cheese pastry ring combines a golden, flaky crescent dough ring with sweet cherry and tangy cream cheese fillings to create a pastry appetizer, dessert, or brunch item that's easy to make and hard to resist.
Servings: 8 Servings
Ingredients
- 2 containers Pillsbury™ refrigerated crescent dinner rolls
Cherry Filling
- 3 cups fresh cherries
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp water
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
Cream Cheese Filling
- 8 oz cream cheese room temperature
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Glaze Drizzle
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 ½ tbsp milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°
Cherry Filling
- In a small saucepan over low heat, add fresh cherries, sugar and lemon juice. Stir and cook for approximately 5-6 minutes until hot and bubbly.
- In a small bowl, mix water and cornstarch together until combined then add to the cherry mixture.
- Continue stirring until the cherry mixture has thickened. Remove from heat and set aside to cool.
Cream Cheese Filling
- In a medium bowl, beat cream cheese until light and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes.
- Add sugar, egg yolk, vanilla and lemon juice. Beat for an additional 2 minutes.
Making the Pastry Ring
- Unroll crescent rolls and separate into the precut triangles.
- Place triangles on an ungreased baking sheet, or a round pizza tin, so that the wider end of the crescent is in the center forming the circle with about a five inch opening in the center. The smaller tip of the crescent is on the outside. *When forming the circle, the wider ends of the crescents will overlap each other.
- Spread cream cheese mixture over the wide part of the crescents.
- Spoon cherry filling on top of the cream cheese mixture.
- Fold the small tip of the crescent over and tuck under the wider part to secure forming the ring.
- Bake for approximately 20 minutes or until golden brown.
- Remove from the oven and let cool.
Glaze Drizzle
- In a small bowl, mix powdered sugar and milk together until combined.
- Drizzle over the pastry ring. Cut and enjoy!
Notes
Storage
- Refrigerate for up to 4 days in an airtight container.
- Bring to room temperature or microwave individual portions at 20-second intervals until warm.
- Stir your cherry filling constantly while cooking to prevent scorching.
- Ensure the wide ends of your triangle overlap to form a solid base while laying them out to create the crescent ring.
- Try to leave a little room between the filling and both the inner part of the ring and the outer portion where the triangles split apart. This helps keep the filling in the ring where it belongs.