Cream Cheese Cherry Ring

Time :30

Yield :16 servings

Recipe Background

A dessert that could also be a breakfast treat? That has a nice ring to it. This circle-of-love, the Cream Cheese Cherry Ring, is packed and ready to delight with a flaky crescent roll crust and tart-but-sweet cherry pie filling. Golden-brown and topped with a delicious glaze as the proverbial "cherry on top," Cream Cheese Cherry Ring is bakery-worthy and beautiful!

Ingredients

1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 (8-ounce) cans crescent rolls
1 (21-ounce) can cherry pie filling
1 cup confectioners' sugar
1 tablespoon milk

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Line a large pizza pan with parchment paper.
In a large bowl, add the cream cheese, the granulated sugar, and the vanilla extract and using an electric handheld mixer, beat to combine.
Transfer the crescent rolls from the cans, unroll them, then separate them into the perforated triangles.
On the prepared pizza pan, place the crescent dough triangles, overlapping them with the long-pointed end outward, leaving an approximately 6-inch circle in the middle of the pan.
Where the wide area of the crescent dough triangles overlap and come together, evenly spread the cherry pie filling onto the circle.
Evenly spread dollops of the cream cheese mixture on top of the cherry pie filling layer.
Fold the pointed ends of the crescent dough triangles over the filling and pinch the dough points into the wider ends of the dough to seal.
Bake the ring until golden-brown, about 18-20 minutes.
Transfer the ring from the oven to a wire rack and let it cool slightly.
In a medium bowl, add the confectioners' sugar and the milk and mix until a smooth glaze forms.
When the ring is slightly cooled, evenly drizzle the glaze over the top of the ring.
With a sharp knife, cut the ring into serving-sized slices and serve.