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means A sweet, flaky pastry with a soft, tangy cream cheese filling baked right into its folded or swirled dough.

from The 'danish' part comes from Denmark — though ironically, Danes call this style of pastry 'wienerbrød' (Vienna bread), crediting Austrian bakers who brought viennoiserie techniques north in the mid-1800s. Danish bakers took that laminated, buttery dough and made it their own, and when it crossed the Atlantic, Americans simply named it for the country they associated it with. The cream cheese filling is a later, largely American addition — a nod to cheese-filled pastries from various European baking traditions, married to Denmark's reputation for rich dairy.