This Puff Pastry Danish with Blueberries and Cream Cheese starts with puff pastry that is topped with sweetened cream cheese and a blueberry mixture for a perfectly decadent breakfast treat.
Blueberries for breakfast? You should also check out these Blueberry Waffles or this Blueberry Banana French Toast Bake.
Look no further for the easiest breakfast pastry!
This Puff Pastry Danish is made easy by using frozen puff pastry. So not only are these easy, but they can be done quickly, as well!
If you are tired of paying way too much for bakery pastries that often have very little flavor, then this is the recipe you need!
Ingredients
- Cream Cheese: I have only used full fat cream cheese, but low fat should work, as well.
- Sugar: This is to sweeten the cream cheese mixture.
- Lemon Juice: The lemon juice will give it a little bit of brightness. If you don’t have it, you can skip it, but I do love what it adds.
- Vanilla: The vanilla adds some extra flavor.
- Blueberries: This is a great use of frozen blueberries. No need to thaw, just add them from frozen. You could also use fresh blueberries.
- Blueberry Preserves: Most grocery stores will carry blueberry preserves. If you can’t find them, you can order it online, (my favorite is Bonne Maman), although then you usually have to buy in bulk.
- Puff Pastry: You can find this in the frozen section at your grocery store. This is not the same as phyllo dough, which is usually found in the same location. Just make sure it is labeled as puff pastry.
- Egg: You’ll mix this with a little bit of water to make an egg wash to brush over the pastry.
How to Make a Puff Pastry Danish
FILLING: Make the filling by beating the cream cheese, then adding the sugar, lemon juice, and vanilla. Combine the blueberries with the blueberry preserves in another bowl.
PASTRY: Slightly roll out your sheet of puff pastry, then cut it into 6 rectangles. Repeat with the second sheet for 12 rectangles. Prick the surface of the pastry, then brush them all with the egg wash.
ASSEMBLE: Add a spoonful of the cream cheese mixture to each rectangle, then add another spoonful of blueberries over the cream cheese mixture.
BAKE: Bake the pastries until they are golden brown. Let them cool slightly before serving.
Puff Pastry Danish Video
If you want to see a visual on how to make this recipe, watch the video below.
Tips and Tricks
Change things up and use a different fruit! Blackberries or raspberries would be delicious.
You will want to make sure your puff pastry is thawed enough to roll it out slightly, but you don’t want it all of the way thawed.
These are best enjoyed the day they are made. If you do have leftovers, store them in the refrigerator. You can reheat them in the oven or in an air fryer, but they won’t be quite as good as leftovers.
More Breakfast Pastries
Kolaches
Homemade Cinnamon Rolls
German Scones with Cinnamon Honey Butter
Hot Cross Buns
Cinnamon Biscuits
Cake Donut Recipe
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Puff Pastry Danish with Blueberries and Cream Cheese
Ingredients
- 1 package 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup frozen blueberries
- 1/2 cup blueberry preserves
- 1 package (17.3 oz) frozen puff pastry sheets (2 sheets), thawed
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon water
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese until smooth. Add the sugar, lemon juice and vanilla and beat until combined. In another small bowl, combine the blueberries and the blueberry preserves.
- Lightly flour a work surface and roll out each of the sheets of puff pastry to about a 10-inch square. Cut each piece into 6 rectangles, (12 rectangles total), about 5”x3 1/2” each. Transfer the rectangles to the prepared baking sheets.
- Using a fork, prick the centers of the rectangles of puff pastry, leaving a 1/2” border unpriced around the edges. Mix together the egg and the water and brush over each of the rectangles.
- Take a spoonful of the cream cheese mixture and place it in the center of each rectangle of puff pastry, distributing equally among the pieces. Spread over the rectangle, leaving a 1/2” border. Top each with a spoonful of the blueberry mixture, spreading it evenly over the cream cheese layer.
- Bake the pastries for 15-18 minutes, or until the pastry is golden brown. Transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
Laura (Tutti Dolci) says
Gorgeous, love the blueberry topping!
Chels R. says
This looks like the kind of pastry you would buy from Starbucks and I’m in love with all of their pastries. It looks so good.
I try hard to be a morning person. I’m so not.
Jen says
I hear you! I was great about making the kids breakfast in the beginning of the school year, but now they are lucky if they get cereal. Sometimes I just throw them a cereal bar as they are leaving the house. These look great and I love working with puff pastry! What temperature do you use to bake the pastries?
Deborah says
Oops! The recipe has been updated. 🙂
Sarah says
What temperature do you bake these at? I can’t find it in the recipe. Thanks.
Joanne says
I always feel that anything homemade is by default better than anything storebought…so these definitely are better than cereal! Personally, I would be more than happy to wake up to these!
Emily says
I need to be your neighbor so I can sample all these delicious recipes!
dina says
they look delicious!
kelley {mountain mama cooks} says
These are my favorite splurge when I go to the grocery store- you know the 4-pack of cream cheese danishes? How easy to make them at home. Love these, Deb!
Angelyn @ Everyday Desserts says
mmmm, these look so wonderful!
michelle says
late nights is right lady!!!!! Best years ever!
Christina @ The Beautiful Balance says
That’s so funny because I switched the opposite way. I used to be a night owl and had late nights and early mornings, but now I prefer to wake up before the rest of the world and have early nights and early mornings. Either way, day or night, I would demolish an entire batch of these blueberry cream cheese pastries. I grew up with my grandmother teaching my how to make puff pastry from scratch and make danishes with different fillings. So, so good.
Rebecca @ Dorm Room Baker says
Wow I’m actually so impressed that you were able to wake up so early in college. My sleep schedule looks more like going to sleep at 3am and waking up at 12pm! I should probably fix that at some point…anyway as much as I love my morning cereal I’m pretty sure I’d totally throw it out the window for one of these in the morning!
Matt Robinson says
We’ve made it a point to be better at making breakfasts too and I love these so much!
How to Philosophize with Cake says
Yum, I wish I had some of those for breakfast this morning! 🙂 Blueberries and cream cheese just go so well in baked goods.
Belinda@themoonblushbaker says
Gorgeous and so very yummy!
Blueberries, cream cheese and puff is the best way to start a day. Late night or not
Chloe @ foodlikecake says
These pastries looks awesome!