Low Carb Cheese Danish
I don’t have the words to explain how much I love cheese danish. It has to be the kind with the turnover-like dough. I can’t stand the processed cakey kind that comes in a box. This has to be fresh from the bakery.
Ingredients
Dough :
1 1/4 cup 2% mozzarella shredded cheese (140 grams)
6 tbsp Almond Flour (42 grams)
3 tbsp Coconut Flour (21 grams)
4 tbsp sugar equivalent (I used 5 tsp Truvia)
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp vanilla
4 tbsp butter (omit if you are using a higher fat cheese but I implore you to use the 2% or part skim mozzarella cheese!)
1 egg (large)
Filling :
6 oz cream cheese
1 tsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup sugar equivalent
1 egg yolk
Frosting :
3 tbsp powdered sweetener (3 tbsp truvia in a coffee grinder for 30 secs and then measure out 3 tbsp of the powdered.)
2 tbsp heavy cream
2 oz cream cheese
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Filling
- Soften cream cheese and combine with lemon juice, vanilla, and sweetener and egg yolk using a whisk or electric mixer. Set aside in the fridge until you are ready with the dough.
- Dough
- Measure out almond flour, coconut flour, and baking powder. Combine well with a whisk.
- Melt 4 tbsp butter and add vanilla and sweetener. Stir.
- Melt 1 1/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese in the microwave (30% power for 2 minutes with a 1200 watt microwave).
- Combine all the ingredients and add an egg.
- Stir until batter is combined and the cheese and dough are completely mixed. Use your hands or a spatula to press and fold the cheese and the batter together. Reheat for 10 seconds in the microwave. Press and fold some more until 99% of the dough is all one color. (Tip-this gets sticky and if you wet your hands a little it helps tremendously. The water from your hands will stop the stickiness on the outside of the dough making it very easy to roll out.)
- Reheat dough for 10 seconds and roll out into a square the approximate length of a rolling pin and slice into four quarters with a pizza slicer.
- Fold the corners into the center repeating with all four squares.
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