King's Hawaiian Cheese Danishes
These King’s Hawaiian Cheese Danish are a super easy danish recipe made with store-bought Hawaiian Rolls. We fill the rolls with cinnamon sugar butter, a delicious cheesecake filling, and then bake for a bit. After cooling we top with a sweet icing glaze.
Servings: 12 rolls
Ingredients
Rolls
- 1 package King's Hawaiian Rolls 12 count
- 8 oz Butter melted
- 3 tbsp Brown Sugar
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- 8 oz Cream Cheese softened
- 1 Egg
- 3 tbsp Sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 1/3 cup Cherry Pie Filling
Icing
- 1 cup Powdered Sugar
- 1 1/2 tbsp Milk
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Remove rolls from packaging and place on a nonstick baking sheet.
- Cut a square from the top and most of the way through each individual roll. Discard cut pieces.
- In a mixing bowl, combine the melted butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. Stir until blended.
- Brush this mixture over the rolls and inside of the cut out squares.
- In another mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese until fluffy.
- Beat in the egg, sugar and vanilla until combined.
- Fill the cutout squares in each roll with this cream cheese mixture.
- Add a spoonful of cherry pie filling on top of the cream cheese mixture.
- Bake for 20 minutes, until cream cheese mixture has set.
- Allow to cool.
- Combine icing ingredients and stir until blended.
- Drizzle over tops of rolls.
Notes
For the BEST Hawaiian Roll Danish you will want to be sure to thoroughly coat the insides and the outsides of the roll with the butter/cinnamon sugar mixture.
Nutrition
Calories: 368kcal | Carbohydrates: 34g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 24g | Saturated Fat: 15g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 83mg | Sodium: 273mg | Potassium: 50mg | Fiber: 0.1g | Sugar: 21g | Vitamin A: 763IU | Vitamin C: 0.2mg | Calcium: 32mg | Iron: 0.1mg