Cherry-Cheese Coffee Cake
- 1-8 oz. Cream Cheese, softened
- 1/3 Cup Powdered Sugar
- 1 Egg, separated
- 1/2 Tsp. Vanilla or Almond Extract
- 2 Cans (8 oz. each) Refrigerated Crescent Rolls
- 1 Cup Cherry Pie Filling
- Powdered Sugar Glaze, optional
- Beat cream cheese, sugar, egg yolk and extract together until smooth.
- Remove rolls from cans.
- Save 4 pieces of dough and arrange the other 12 pieces on 15 inch baking stone with the long points in the center.
- The pieces will hang over the edge of the baking stone.
- Push the dough together to cover the stone, leaving the center open.
- Fold up the center tips of dough to leave hole in the middle.
- Spread cream cheese mixture over dough.
- Top with pie filling.
- Press perforations on saved dough and cut lengthwise into 8 strips.
- Twist each strip and lay over filling like spokes on a wheel.
- Fold dough over spokes around outer edge and also fold tips of dough in center.
- Brush dough with beaten egg white.
cream cheese, powdered sugar, egg, vanilla, crescent rolls, cherry pie filling, powdered sugar
Taken from www.cookbooks.com/Recipe-Details.aspx?id=91991 (may not work)