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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 25 Minutes |
Ready In: 25 Minutes Servings: 8 |
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Great breakfast, brunch or snak item. A Pampered Chef recipe. Ingredients:
1 - 8 oz pk cream cheese, softened |
1/3 c powdered sugar |
1 egg |
1/4 cup pecans, chopped |
2 pkgs. refrigerated crescent rolls |
2 granny smith apples, peeled, cored, and sliced |
1 t sugar |
1/2 t cinnamon |
1 t maple-flavored syrup |
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. In a bowl, combine cream cheese and powdered sugar until well blended.
3. Add egg mixing until smooth.
4. Unroll 1 pkg. of crescent dough; do not separate.
5. Arrange longest sides of dough across width of 12 x 15 rectangle baking stone.
6. Repeat with remaining pkg. of dough.
7. Roll dough to seal perforations.
8. On longest sides of baking stone, cut dough into strips 1-1/2 inches apart, 3 inches deep using pizza cutter (there will be 6 inches in the center for the filling).
9. Spread half of cream cheese mixture evenly over middle of dough. Peel, core and slice apples.
10. Cut slices crosswise in half; evenly arrange apple slices over cream cheese mixture.
11. Combine sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over apples.
12. Scoop remaining cream cheese mixture over apples; sprinkle with pecans.
13. To braid, lift strips of dough across mixture to meet in center, twisting each strip one turn.
14. Continue alternating strips to form a braid. Tuck ends under to seal at end of braid.
15. Bake 25-28 minutes or until deep golden brown.
16. Remove from oven; brush with syrup using pastry brush.
17. Cut & serve.
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