Cherry Cheese Danishes with Walnut Crumble

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 sheet puff pastry

  cut into 16 squares
• 2 tablespoons whole egg

  for egg wash
• 1 cup pitted cherries

  cut into halves
• 0.5 cup white sugar
• 2 egg yolks
• 0.5 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
• 0.33 teaspoon salt
• 5 tablespoons walnuts

  finely ground
• 70 grams white flour

  0.60 of a cup
• 50 grams butter

  3.5 tablespoons
• 50 grams sugar

  4 tablespoons
• pinch salt

Instructions

• 1 If starting with whole walnuts, then add them first to the bowl of the food
  processor and pulse until finely ground.
• 2 Add the flour, butter and sugar. Pulse until the mixture just begins to come
  together into small clumps and stop immediately. Refrigerate until ready to use.
• 3 Cut the cherries in half and mix all the filling ingredients together in a bowl.
  Refrigerate until ready to use.
• 4 Cut the puff pastry into squares - +/- 16 pieces depending on the dimensions of
  your puff pastry.
• 5 Follow the directions and photos in the recipe post on how to make the frames.
• 6 When ready to bake, preheat oven to 180 C / 360 F
• 7 Apply egg wash to the puff pastry (optional) then spoon in about 2-3 tablespoons
  of the filling (more or less depending on size of the puff pastry frame).
• 8 Top each frame with about 1.5 tablespoons of the crumble (more or less depending
  on size of the puff pastry frame).
• 9 Bake for 18 - 20 minutes or until golden.

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