Starbuck's Copycat Sugar Plum Cheese Danish

These Sugar Plum Danishes are really easy to whip up at home with only a few ingredients!

This spiced jam filling gives this pastry such a warm, holiday flavor. It just tastes like Christmas!

You can use plum jam or jelly–whatever you can find. You could even sub in any red jam/jelly for a similar flavor in a pinch.

Adding the cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves into the sweet jam is what gives it that spiced sugar plum taste.

The combo of sugar plum jam on top of the cream cheese filling, all tucked inside a fluffy, buttery crust, and you will have visions of sugar plums dancing in your head, too. 

Puff pastry is one of life’s greatest inventions. I mean, making a buttery pastry with all these flakey layers is a lot of work. Puff pastry lets you get that same thing, by just pulling the box from the freezer. Thank you, Pepperidge Farms.

The Starbucks version of this Danish has those cute little rolled up corners, so the best way to do this at home is to use a muffin tin.

Tuck each square of pastry into a well of the muffin pan, and then fill with the cream cheese and sugar plum jam.

To retain the flakiness of the pastry, it’s really important to work with puff pastry that has been thawed enough to be pliable, but is still cold. Make sure you set your pastry out on the counter for 30 minutes or so before beginning, but don’t let it warm up too much past that, or it will be sticky and doughy.

This is the hardest part of the whole process. You must carefully pay attention to the baking process and pull the pastries out at just the right time. That could be anywhere between 13-ish minutes and 20-ish minutes.

These are easy to make, and tastes so Christmas-y with the tiny bit of spice in the plum jam. And you can make them right at home, without leaving for the coffee shop!

I hope you'll visit me at The House on Silverado to see more recipes like this one, including my other copycat recipes!

-Niky @ The House on Silverado