Easy Apple Danishes (+Video)

This recipe for Easy Apple Danishes is made with crescent rolls and topped with apple pie filling and drizzled with icing.

A SIMPLE DANISH RECIPE WITH CRESCENT ROLLS

Most days I would consider myself a lazy baker. Don’t get me wrong, when I get in the mood and have time, I like to throwdown and go all out preparing dinner and dessert. But most days, I want to just throw a few things together and call it done.

TIPS FOR MAKING DANISHES WITH CRESCENT ROLLS:

• This recipe can be used in so many ways! It can be breakfast, brunch or even dessert!
• You can use any canned pie filling you enjoy so it’s easy play around with different flavors!
• Don’t need as many danishes? Just use one can of crescent rolls.
• These can be frozen. Wrap each in plastic wrap then put in a freezer safe Ziploc bag and freeze for up to 3 months. Warm up in the oven, microwave or air fryer.
• To make cinnamon sugar, combine 1/2 cup granulated sugar with 2 Tablespoons ground cinnamon.
• Salted or unsalted butter can be used. It’s your personal preference. I prefer to use salted butter.

INGREDIENTS NEEDED: (FULL RECIPE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST)

• crescent rolls
• apple pie filling
• butter
• cinnamon sugar
• powdered sugar
• vanilla extract
• milk

HOW TO MAKE EASY APPLE DANISHES:

Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Separate dough into eight rectangles (only 4 are pictured). Seal perforations. Using a brush or spoon, spread melted butter all over crescent rolls. 

Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar mixture (2 tbsp. white sugar mixed with 1 teaspoon of cinnamon)

Roll up from long side; pinch edges to seal. Holding one end, loosely coil each. Coil them up like snakes. Place on cookie sheet that has been sprayed with nonstick spray.

Now, you want to get in there with your fingers and spread out the dough some to make room for the filling. Just pull and stretch and make a nice dent in the middle.

Open can of apple pie filling and using a knife, cut apple slices into smaller chunks. Just keep poking and slicing around until all your apples are cut into more manageable pieces.

Top each crescent roll “coil” with about 2-3 tablespoons of apple pie filling. Sprinkle the tops with a bit more cinnamon sugar mixture.

Bake at 350(F) for 15-18 minutes, or until golden brown. For the glaze, in a bowl, combine powdered sugar, vanilla and milk. Stir until smooth and drizzle over each warm danish. These taste best when served warm. Makes 8 danishes.

Cook’s Note: This would be wonderful with any type of pie filling. Peaches, strawberry, lemon or cherry would all be amazing. You can just skip the cinnamon sugar part for the strawberry or cherry & lemon fillings. Also, if you don’t need so many danishes, just use one tube of crescent rolls and save the leftover pie filling for another time. Just put it in a container with a lid and store in the fridge for up to a week.

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Easy Apple Danishes (+Video)

This recipe for Easy Apple Danishes is made with crescent rolls and topped with apple pie filling and drizzled with icing.

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Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 18 minutes minutes

Total Time: 28 minutes minutes

Servings: 8

Author: Brandie @ The Country Cook

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Ingredients

• ▢ 2 (8 ounce) tubes crescent rolls (8 crescent rolls per tube)
• ▢ 20 ounce can apple pie filling
• ▢ 2 Tablespoons salted butter, melted (unsalted can be used)
• ▢ 3 Tablespoons cinnamon sugar
• ▢ ½ cup powdered sugar
• ▢ 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ▢ 3-4 teaspoon milk

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees (F)
• Separate all the crescent roll dough into eight rectangles. (2 crescent roll triangles make one rectangle).Seal perforations.
• Using a brush or spoon, spread melted butter all over crescent rolls.
• Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar mixture (2 tablespoons white sugar mixed with 1 teaspoon of cinnamon)
• Roll up from long side; pinch edges to seal. Holding one end, loosely coil each.
• Place on cookie sheet that has been sprayed with nonstick spray. Spread out the dough in the center to make room for the filling.
• Open can of apple pie filling and using a knife, cut apple slices into smaller chunks.
• Top each coil with about 2-3 tablespoons of apple pie filling.
• Sprinkle the tops with a bit more cinnamon sugar mixture.
• Bake at 350(F) for 15-18 minutes, or until golden brown.
• For the glaze, in a bowl, combine powdered sugar, vanilla and milk.
• Stir until smooth and drizzle over each warm danish.

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Notes

• Best served warm. This would be wonderful with any type of pie filling. Peaches, strawberry or cherry would all be amazing. You can just skip the cinnamon sugar part for the strawberry or cherry fillings.
• Also, if you don’t need so many danishes, just use one tube of crescent rolls and save the leftover pie filling for another time. Just put it in a container with a lid and store in the fridge for up to a week.
• To make cinnamon sugar just combine 1/2 cup of granulated sugar with 2 Tablespoons of ground cinnamon. 

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Nutrition

Calories: 175kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 8g | Sodium: 255mg | Sugar: 12g

Nutritional Disclaimer

“The Country Cook” is not a dietician or nutritionist, and any nutritional information shared is an estimate. If calorie count and other nutritional values are important to you, we recommend running the ingredients through whichever online nutritional calculator you prefer. Calories and other nutritional values can vary quite a bit depending on which brands were used.

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Originally published: May 2011
Updated & republished: May 2019