Puff Pastry
2 cups (10 oz) unbleached all purpose flour
20 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold
6 tablespoons ice water
1 teaspoon salt
Cheese Filling
1 (8 oz) package cream cheese
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg, beaten
Optional: berries
Glaze
1 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons milk
Place flour and 4 tablespoons of the butter, cut into tablespoons, in the food processor. Pulse 10 times to distribute. Add the remaining 16 tablespoons butter, cut into tablespoons, and pulse 4 times. Dissolve the salt in the water. Turn the processor to on and pour the salt water through the feed tube. Run until it forms a ball of dough.
Turn out onto a well floured counter and roll with a rolling pin into a large rectangle. Fold it long-ways in thirds, then roll up from the small end to make many layers. Pat into a square, wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour. Clean out the food processor.
Heat oven to 425 and line a baking sheet with parchment.
In the clean food processor, add the cream cheese, sugar, and half of the beaten egg (save the other half). Process until smooth.
Roll out the cold dough into a rectangle slightly larger than 12 by 16 inches. Trim the edges to make it nice and straight. Cut into 12 even squares. Dollop the cream cheese filling in the center of each square. Use the back of the spoon to gently spread it into an oval shape going diagonally across each square. Don't spread it all the way to the edges, leave about a half inch at the corners. If desired, place sliced strawberries, or raspberries, blueberries, etc. onto the cream cheese filling.
Use the reserved half an egg to brush one corner of each square of dough. Fold the opposite corner over the filling, then fold the egg-washed corner over that and press to seal. Move shaped danishes to the baking sheet. Brush the tops with the remaining egg. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes until deep golden brown. Let cool on a wire rack.
Mix together the powdered sugar and milk until smooth. Place in a sandwich bag and snip one corner. Drizzle the glaze over the Danishes. Transfer to a serving platter and serve.
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