Holy moly, spring is in full swing! It seems like everyone wants us to be here or there. Sheesh! I want a weekend at home to re-cooperate!
So weigh in day went ok…294.6! Can’t complain about that after such a big drop last week, and the fun weekend we had!
The last couple of days I’ve been well behaved; drinking all my water, eating clean and hovering around 1200 calories/25 grams of carbs or less, getting a walk in or moderate physical activity in. I feel like I should up my activity, maybe add some high intensity interval training to really maximize my workout time.
As I promised, here is the Cheese Danish recipe…trust me, and make this. It doesn’t taste like diet food at all. Creamy, cheesy, decadent breakfast pastry goodness that totally feels like a cheat and isn’t!
adapted from uplateanyway.com….such a great blog! This is a three step process that *looks* like hard work but really, isn’t too bad and comes together super quickly.
Ingredients:
Dough
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- 1 1/4 cup 2% mozzarella shredded cheese (140 grams) (this type of cheese is important; using other types of mozzarells alters the texture and adds starch, etc.)
- 6 tbsp Almond Flour
(42 grams) (I didn’t have almond flour, so I used soy flour instead…turned out just fine, but did alter the carb count from the original recipe)
- 3 tbsp Coconut Flour
(21 grams)
- 4 tbsp sugar equivalent
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1 egg (large)
Filling
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- 6 oz cream cheese
- 1 tsp lemon juice (I omitted this and it turned out fine)
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup sugar equivalent
- 1 egg yolk
Glaze
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- 3 tbsp powdered sweetener (she ground hers up in a coffee grinder, I just used regular Splenda in the giant bag; it was very thick though)
- 2 tbsp heavy cream
- 2 oz cream cheese
- 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
Directions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Soften cream cheese and combine with lemon juice, vanilla, and sweetener and egg yolk using a whisk or electric mixer. Set aside in the fridge until you are ready with the dough.
- Measure out almond flour, coconut flour, and baking powder. Combine well with a whisk.
- Melt 4 tbsp butter and add vanilla and sweetener. Stir.
- Melt 1 1/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese in the microwave, working in 1 minute increments.
- Combine all the ingredients and add an egg.
- Stir until batter is combined and the cheese and dough are completely mixed. Use your hands or a spatula to press and fold the cheese and the batter together. Reheat for 10 seconds in the microwave. Press and fold some more until 99% of the dough is all one color. (Tip-this gets sticky and if you wet your hands a little it helps tremendously. The water from your hands will stop the stickiness on the outside of the dough making it very easy to roll out.)
- Reheat dough for 10 seconds and roll out into a square the approximate length of a rolling pin and slice into four quarters with a pizza slicer. You could also make 6 danishes to stretch the recipe a bit further and cut the carbs down even more! They won’t be huge, but they will still hit the spot.
- Fold the corners into the center repeating with all four squares.
- Spoon the filling into the center of each danish.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes. (Check on this at 10 minutes and make sure to remove it from the oven as soon as it has a deep golden brown color!)
- Soften cream cheese in the microwave and add powdered sweetener, heavy cream and vanilla. Mix well with a whisk and pour into a ziploc bag. Cut a tiny hole in the corner and pipe onto each danish.
These are divine little bits of heaven!!!
Hope you enjoy the recipe!
KK
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