How To Make Blueberry Cream Cheese Danish With Claire Saffitz | Dessert Person
A treat for me as a kid was walking from my house to the St. Louis Bread Company, a family-owned, fast-casual bakery and cafe (later sold and turned into the Panera chain), and buying a snack from the pastry case. I would often get one of their cherry or blueberry and cheese danishes. It felt like a very fancy treat then, and that’s still how danishes feel to me now. Watch and follow along as Claire Saffitz walks you through her Kouign-amann recipe and creates delicious Blueberry Cream Cheese Danishes.

Blueberry Cream Cheese Danish
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1 pound (454g) fresh or frozen blueberries
1/3 cup blueberry jam
1/4 cup sugar (1.8 oz / 50g)
Finely grated zest of 1 lemon1 dash of vanilla extract/paste
1/4 cup confectioner’s sugar
6 ounces (170g) full-fat cream cheese, preferably Philadelphia, at room temperature
1 large egg yolk (0.6 oz / 16g)

Kouign-amann dough (page 257) cut into 24 squares unbaked:
Ingredients:
1 teaspoon active dry yeast (0.11 oz/ 3g)
3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (14.6 oz / 423g), plus more for rolling out
3 tablespoons unsalted butter (1.5 oz / 43g), melted and cooled
1 1/2 teaspoons Diamond Crystal kosher salt (0.16 oz / 5g)
1 1/4 cups sugar (8.8 oz / 250g)
12 ounces ( 340g) salted European-Style butter, cut into tablespoons, chilled
Butter and sugar for the muffin tins.

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