Cream Cheese Bread...

This recipe is one that a friend of my mom's used to bring us every Christmas. This is a danish type pastry that is wonderful with coffee in the morning. I have never made it myself, but intend to sometime in the near future. As I remember it is a bit time consuming to make.. but worth it in the end.

Cream Cheese Bread

Courtesy of Susan Dillard

Bread Dough:

8 oz sour cream scalded
1 stick butter melted
1 tsp salt
1/2 C sugar
2 pkg quick rise yeast
1/2 C warm water
2 eggs beaten
4 C bread flour

Filling:
2-8 oz pkg cream cheese
1 egg beaten
3/4 C sugar
2 t. vanilla
1/8 t. salt

Glaze:
2 1/2 C powdered sugar
2 t. vanilla
1/4 C milk.

Preheat oven to 250 then turn off. Combine sour cream, sugar, butter and salt. Mix well. Let cool until lukewarm. While cooling, dissolve yeast in water in bowl you will mix bread in. Stir in sour cream mix, eggs, and flour 1 C. at a time. Oil a glass or aluminum bowl. After mixing up the dough, knead with flour until it is no longer gummy. Now put dough in oiled bowl and flip it over. Put in oven and let rise until doubled 1.5 hours. After it has risen knead again. Now divide into 4 equal parts. Take each fourth of mixture and knead on heavily floured surface. Roll each fourth into a 12x8 rectangle. Mix filling ingredients with

A mixer. Take 1/4 of filling and spread over rectangle with 1/2 inch margin on edges. Roll up like jelly roll. Pinch edges and ends. Place rolls seam side down on greased 9x13 pan. Make an x shaped cuts on top of each loaf through the first layer of dough. Put in over and let rise until doubled again (1-2 hours). Bake at 375 for 15-20 min. While cooling combine glaze ingredients and mix well with spoon. Drizzle glaze on top while loaves are warm.

4 loaves.