Lemon Cheese Danish Cups

These Lemon Cheese Danish Cups are simple to make and only require a few ingredients. Makes a great breakfast when you want that sweet fill but want to stay within calories and points range. Serve warm with coffee or have it as a dessert. Either way its delicious!

Ingredients

• 1 tube Pillsbury crescent rolls
• 4 oz low fat cream cheese, softened
• 1.5 tbsp. granulated sugar
• 2 tbsp. low fat milk
• 2 tsp lemon juice (or more to your liking)
• zest of a lemon
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• Pam spray

Directions

1. Set oven to 350 degrees
2. Spray a muffin tin pan with Pam spray and roll out crescent dough
3. Take each crescent and fit it into muffin tin making a cup, repeat with the other 7 crescents
4. In a small bowl, whisk or beat cream cheese and sugar well, add milk, lemon juice, lemon zest, and vanilla extract, mix well.
5. Pour 1 tbsp of filling into each crescent cup

6. Bake for 15 minutes or until crescent cups are light brown

7. Cool for 10 minutes, serve warm.

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Yield: 8 (1 Lemon Cheese Danish cup per serving)

Nutrition Info per serving (using myfitnesspal)

Calories: 162, total fat: 10 g, total carbs: 16 g, protein: 2 g

myWW smartpoints per serving (using weightwatchers recipe builder)

Green, blue and purple: 7 smartpoints