ISO recipe for cheese blintz-danish

[Miri1]

I'm not a big fan of things that come from a bakery but once in a while I get a craving for one thing, and one thing only- a cheese danish that looks like a cheese blintz and is, in fact, called blintz in the (Kosher) bakery. It's basically a danish made from a sort of flaky dough, filled with a sweet cheese filling and then rollled like a blintz, I assume baked, not fried, and usually dusted with powered sugar. I like it so much because it has more cheese filling than your usual danish and are a little flakier, too. Does anyone have a recipe like what I'm describing? I had one today from Eilat Bakery on Fairfax in L.A. and it was just so good!

Thanks!
Miri

[todao]

Your description produces a picture in my mind's eye of a typical danish puff pastry folded over a cheese blintz filling If you use pasteurized eggs, this filling recipe might interest you:

http://www.grouprecipes.com/sr/66146/...

[Miri1]

Yum! Not sure, though, if they use a typical danish pastry or not. I may just have to make a dough and try it. What's the worst that can happen? Anything with cheese is a winner in my book! :)

[todao]

I agree. There is a variety of cheese to go with just about anything and just about anything goes well with some variety of cheese. It's a love affair made in heaven.

[toveggiegirl]

I love cheese danishes too but I've never made them. These recipes might help:
http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/6215/cheese-pockets
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/13/din...

[ChrisKC]

What about Ina's recipe that uses puff pastry? I personally have not tried it yet but it's on my list! I've heard good things about it

[gwendolynmarie]

That sounds awfully like a bureka, but burekas are usually more savory, so I'm almost positive that those pastries are delkelekh/delkelach. You can find a recipe online, but I'd trust my grandmother- cheat with frozen puff pastry dough, and for the filling use a mixture of cheeses amounting to about a pound(ricotta, cottage, cream cheese, and sour cream), a few big soup spoons of sugar, a dash of vanilla, a pinch of salt. Lemon juice and two egg yolks are optional.

That said, was the dough more flakey like strudel - looking somewhat like this: http://www.agakitchen.com/home/2010/1...? In which case, you could use a similar filling, and phyllo. Or was the dough more similar to that of a croissant, shaped more like pan au chocolat?

[eatmyfood]

From your description, I envision a sweet cheese danish. I have adapted a Barefoot Contessa recipe that includes sauteed apples. but if you just want a cheese danish, omit the apples.

Apple Turnovers filled with Spiced Cream Cheese

makes 8 turnovers - 4 for yourself and 4 to share

2 sheets of puff pastry - like Pepperidge Farm
4 apples, peeled and sliced kinda thin
2 -3 TB brown sugar
dash of cinnamon
1 TB butter
4 oz cream cheese, room temp.
1 egg yolk
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp cinnamon
dash of nutmeg
sugar for sprinkling - best if you have the big crystals

1 egg mixed with 1 tsp water for the egg wash

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a pan, cook the apples, in the butter with the brown sugar and cinnamon. They should just begin to get tender. Let cool. Mix together the cream cheese, egg yolk, cinnamon and nutmeg. Roll out one sheet of the pastry to about a 12 inch x 12 inch square. Cut into 4 smaller squares. Place a dollop of the cream cheese mixture in the center of each square of the pastry and top with a glob of the apples. Brush the edges of the square with the egg wash and fold the 2 opposite corners to the center to overlap. Brush the outside of the pastry with the egg wash and sprinkle with sugar. Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Repeat with the remaining pastry to make a total of 8 turnovers. Bake for about 20 minutes until golden brown.

http://www.dinnersforayear.blogspot.com

[housewolf]

Did they look like these?
http://pinkstripes.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/cheese-danish/

Or was the cheese filling completely encased inside the dough, sort of like a chocolate or almond croissant? Sort of a croissant pillow with filling? Something like these
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgur...

Danish dough is basically croissant dough with the addition of eggs. If you wanted to experiment, you could find a cream cheese danish recipe and just shape the dough into rectangles instead of triangles, place fillling in on the rectangle, fold it up and bake as filled croissant.

[Gmdavis]

I've got the original recipe you want and will post it here tomorrow when I'm home from traveling. It's from my grandmother who made it from the old country recipe. It's wonderful and the real thing and not changed from the traditional recipe.