Cherry-Cheese Coffee Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1-8 oz. Cream Cheese, softened
1/3 Cup Powdered Sugar
1 Egg, separated
1/2 Tsp. Vanilla or Almond Extract
2 Cans (8 oz. each) Refrigerated Crescent Rolls
1 Cup Cherry Pie Filling
Powdered Sugar Glaze, optional

Preparation

Beat cream cheese, sugar, egg yolk and extract together until smooth.
Remove rolls from cans.
Save 4 pieces of dough and arrange the other 12 pieces on 15 inch baking stone with the long points in the center.
The pieces will hang over the edge of the baking stone.
Push the dough together to cover the stone, leaving the center open.
Fold up the center tips of dough to leave hole in the middle.
Spread cream cheese mixture over dough.
Top with pie filling.
Press perforations on saved dough and cut lengthwise into 8 strips.
Twist each strip and lay over filling like spokes on a wheel.
Fold dough over spokes around outer edge and also fold tips of dough in center.
Brush dough with beaten egg white.