How To Make Blueberry Cream Cheese Danish With Claire Saffitz | Dessert Person

Summary by Krater

Claire Saffitz demonstrates how to make blueberry cream cheese danishes from scratch, including making kouign-amann dough with laminated layers of butter, preparing cream cheese and blueberry fillings, and assembling and baking the pastries.

From the video

Answers: How do I make blueberry cream cheese danishes from scratch?

• Kouign-amann dough preparation
• Butter block lamination technique
• Cream cheese pastry filling
• Blueberry danish assembly and baking

Ingredients

• all-purpose flour
• three sticks or 12 oz European-style butter
• active dry yeast
• sugar
• kosher salt
• 1 cup water
• 1 pint blueberries
• wild blueberry jam
• confectioner's sugar
• 8 oz cream cheese
• 1 lemon
• 1 egg yolk
• vanilla paste

What it concludes

• The best danish you will ever have is the one you make at home.
• The danishes, stored airtight at room temperature, will keep up to 3 days but are best served the day they're made.