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Orange Cheese Danish Pastry

Prep Time: 15

Cook Time: 25

Serves: Serves: 10

Ingredients

• 1 cup (8 oz.) Sargento® Part-Skim Ricotta Cheese
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 Tbsp. butter, softened
• 1 Tbsp. all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp. grated orange rind
• 1/2 tsp. vanilla
• 1 sheet (1/2 lb.) frozen puff pastry dough, thawed
• 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
• 1 Tbsp. orange juice
• 2 Tbsp. chopped walnuts or sliced almonds

Directions

• Combine cheese, sugar, egg, butter, flour, orange rind and vanilla in large bowl. Beat with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended.

• Unfold pastry into rectangle; place on baking sheet. Make 2-inch-deep cuts at 1-inch intervals on long sides of pastry. Spread cheese mixture down center 3 inches of pastry. Crisscross strips over filling, alternating sides and bringing strips all the way across filling.

• Bake in preheated 400°F oven 25 minutes or until bottom is golden brown.

• Cool on wire rack. Mix confectioners sugar and orange juice in small bowl until smooth. Drizzle mixture over pastry; sprinkle with walnuts.