Apple Danish Braid Recipe

How to make it

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• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• In a bowl, combine cream cheese and powdered sugar until well blended.
• Add egg mixing until smooth.
• Unroll 1 pkg. of crescent dough; do not separate.
• Arrange longest sides of dough across width of 12" x 15" rectangle baking stone.
• Repeat with remaining pkg. of dough.
• Roll dough to seal perforations.
• On longest sides of baking stone, cut dough into strips 1-1/2 inches apart, 3 inches deep using pizza cutter (there will be 6 inches in the center for the filling).
• Spread half of cream cheese mixture evenly over middle of dough. Peel, core and slice apples.
• Cut slices crosswise in half; evenly arrange apple slices over cream cheese mixture.
• Combine sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over apples.
• Scoop remaining cream cheese mixture over apples; sprinkle with pecans.
• To braid, lift strips of dough across mixture to meet in center, twisting each strip one turn.
• Continue alternating strips to form a braid. Tuck ends under to seal at end of braid.
• Bake 25-28 minutes or until deep golden brown.
• Remove from oven; brush with syrup using pastry brush.
• Cut & serve.