When you’re a kid and play sports seven days a week you can polish off danishes like it’s your job. I wish I could get that job again.
And in high school and college, I could do some major damage on Entenmann’s danishes and crumb cakes. With danishes, I love the filling that’s encased within layers of dough and the density and heaviness. I don’t go for light and airy desserts. I go for thick, dense, heavy slabs. The kind of heavy tonnage that makes you wonder how on earth an 8-by-8-inch baking pan weighs 14 pounds as you’re hoisting it into the oven. Butter, sugar, cream cheese, jelly, and dough will do that.
But it’s the crust that really sold me on this one and normally I avoid crust. It’s usually boring and dry. Since I just made mango and streuesel-topped muffins and cinnamon bun crumble-topped pie, I wanted to mix it up with this one and make a solid layer of crust that’s as flavorful as a crumble topping, while avoiding any blandness or dryness. The resulting crust is a solid wall of butter, sugar, brown sugar, and cinnamon. The best kind of wall, and it’ definitely not boring, bland, or dry.
In each bite there’s a little cream cheese and a little jelly, and there’s softness and squishy tenderness. And then there’s the robustly flavored cinnamon and sugar crust, which is a little bit crunchy and the perfect contrast to the soft filling.
The best part of these is that they’re easy and use a shortcut. It’s called a can of Pillsbury Crescent Rolls.
I don’t know about you, but I’d rather be playing with my daughter, outside enjoying the fresh air, organizing my sock drawer, or doing just about anything other than making and rolling out pastry dough. I’m all about baking and I like a good project and challenge, and I have the utmost respect for Christina Tosi who appears to enjoy making things as complicated as multi-staged as possibly, but I just don’t have the time and energy. Hello, shortcut.
I’m all about the shortest distance between two points. Those points would be me and a bite of this.
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