Cream Cheese Danishes

My 13-year-old keeps saying... we need donuts... we need cookies... we need cake...  Today, when I said, "then why don't you make some," she acted.  It was cream cheese danishes.

We found a recipe on the internet.  It wasn't for whole wheat but we quit worrying about that a long time ago.  The first step was to mix butter (homegrown and homemade) with a little bit of flour (home-ground).  She rolled it out between sheets of wax paper and chilled it until it was hard.  She held it up to show me how firm it was.

Then she made a dough from flour (home-ground), milk (homegrown), and sugar, yeast, salt, and almond extract (store-bought).  She kneaded it up like bread and let it rise.

After an hour, she rolled the dough out and put the chilled butter inside.  She folded the sides over and then rolled it out big again.  She folded the sides back over and rolled it out again.  Back in the refrigerator for an hour and she did the whole process again.

She rolled the dough out and sliced it up into squares.  In the center of each square she put a mixture of cream cheese and sour cream (homegrown and homemade) with sugar and vanilla (store-bought).  She pulled up the corners and let them rise for a half-hour.  They baked only fifteen minutes.

We decided there wasn't quite enough cream cheese mixture, so we added some more.  Then she drizzled each one with butter and milk (homegrown and homemade) mixed with powdered sugar (store-bought).

They were very good.  Very good.  The crust was light and flaky.  The cream cheese was smooth and delightful.  The only improvement is to roll them out thinner because the dough got heavy and thick in some areas. Definitely worth doing again.