For Pies and pastries, I went out on a limb and created my own pie. I have seen pictures of cinnamon roll crusts all over Pinterest and decided to jump on board. Most of the pies created with that kind of crust were either apple or pumpkin. I have enough of those here on the blog, so I put on my thinking cap.
Each Christmas I make some kind of cinnamon roll or other pastry for breakfast. I got to thinking about danishes…mostly because I need to make them again to take a better photo. Then I wondered if I could make a cheese fruit pie with the cinnamon roll crust.
I wanted to put cherries or apples on the top of this pie, but the Comedian insisted on peaches. I still think cherries would have been better, but I am not the one who ate it, so I have to keep my mouth shut. I only had one package of 8 cinnamon rolls (because I had to try making the other package I bought in a waffle iron—that works, too!). So I only made a very small pie that sort of oozed over the sides of the pie tin. It really should have been bigger, so I accounted for that in the recipe below.
1. Info for Cheese Danish Pie
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2. Ingredients for Cheese Danish Pie
- 2 rolls 8 count refrigerated cinnamon rolls
- 1 8 oz cream cheese
- 2 eggs
- ⅓ cup real maple syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ⅓ cup flour
- 1 can fruit pie filling
3. Directions:
- Remove cinnamon rolls from packages.
- Place next to each other on a floured counter or board.
- Pinch the together.
- Using a rolling pin, flatten the rolls to ¼ inch.
- Place in a pie tin.
- Make the filling, beat cream cheese until fluffy.
- Add maple syrup, eggs and vanilla.
- Scrape down sides of bowl and beat again.
- Add flour and mix until smooth.
- Pour into pie crust.
- Bake 325 degrees for 45-60 minutes until it barely jiggles.
- Cool and refrigerate.
- Top each piece with fruit filling.
