danish anyone?

This week I decided to make a Danish Braid. The recipe is from the book, Baking With Julia. The danish took a couple days to make because you have to chill the dough overnight. The making of the danish wasn't hard or really too time consuming and the finished product looked similar to the photo in the book. The cool thing is that the dough can be refridgerated for a while and you can use it for other pastries, the recipe for the braid only used half the dough recipe. The end result is very pretty and impressive even though it is not too difficult to make. The down side is that it taste good but not great. I used a berry filling with pastry creamfor the inside and it tasted like those nutri-grain strawberry and cream granola bars. Then I cut another piece and sprinkled some of the coffee sugar glaze on it and it tasted better. I think the second piece had more of the cream and that helped, the first piece was on the end. My conclusion, make it if you really want to impress with a fancy looking danish but throw away the end pieces and definately pour on the glaze. It was fun and now I can say I made a danish, plus I got to use my food processor I got for Christmas for the first time. Adios!