King Hawaiian Rolls Cream Cheese Danish
These King’s Hawaiian Roll cream cheese danishes come together in minutes and make an easy, crowd-pleasing brunch option any time of year. They’re light, fluffy, and so delicious—even those who don’t usually love cream cheese treats won’t be able to resist them.
Ingredients
- 12 count King’s Hawaiian Sweet Rolls
- ½ cup melted salted butter
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 8 oz. cream cheese (softened)
- 3 tbsp granulated sugar
- 1 egg (room temperature)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
For glaze:
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tbsp milk
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray baking dish with non-stick spray. Next, take a serrated knife and cute a square in the top of each roll halfway down. Pop the square off.
- Stir the melted butter with the brown sugar and cinnamon.
- With a pastry brush, brush the rolls all over with the cinnamon sugar butter mixture. Be sure to coat heavily around the sides, tops, in between each roll and inside of the squares in the roll.
- Now with a hand mixer, mix together the cream cheese, granulated sugar and egg.
- Then spoon the cream cheese mixture into the rolls and fill up to the top of each roll.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until the center of the cream cheese is set.
- Let cool for 20 minutes so the cream cheese mixture sets.
- Meanwhile mix together the powdered sugar, milk and vanilla
- Drizzle tops of the rolls with the icing mixture using a spoon.