CHRISTMAS CRESCENT RING

I made it this morning to go with our coffee, and it is delicious! The almond and raspberry flavors are fantastic together! This is easy, attractive and very tasty.

Total Time- 25mins

Preparation Time- 5mins

Cooking Time- 20mins


Ingredients-

• 2 (8 ounce) packages crescent roll dough
• 1 (7 ounce) containerpure almond paste
• 1⁄4 cup seedless red raspberry jam or 1⁄4 cup cherry jam

Glaze-

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 1⁄2 tablespoons water
• 1⁄4 teaspoon almond extract
• sugar dipped cherries and small pear (optional)

Direction-

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Line a heavy large baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
• Unroll crescent dough; separate along dough perforations into 16 triangles.
• Overlap 8 dough triangles on prepared baking sheet, forming a 10-inch-diameter dough disk that looks like the sun with a hole in the middle.
• Press edges together to seal the dough "disk".
• Using a rolling pin, roll out almond paste between 2 sheets of waxed paper into a 9-inch diameter disk.
• Place almond disk atop dough disk.
• Spread jam over almond paste.
• Using remaining 8 dough triangles, arrange second 10-inch diameter dough disk atop jam.
• Pinch edges of dough disks to seal; tuck edges under.
• Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until golden brown.
• Remove from oven and cool for 10 minutes.
• While ring is baking, make glaze by stirring powdered sugar, water, and almond extract together in a medium bowl until smooth.
• Drizzle half of glaze over warm crescent.
• Let glaze set for 10 minutes and then drizzle remaining glaze over.
• Decorate with sugar-dipped cherries and small pears, if desired.

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