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To make cream cheese filling add cream cheese, sugar, lemon juice and vanilla in a bowl. Mix until ingredients are well blended. Set aside.
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In a medium pot add butter and melt over medium heat. Add apples, sugar, cinnamon and water. Cook over medium heat until apples are soft (about 5 minutes). Remove from heat and allow filling to cool about 3 minutes.
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Roll your dough into a rectangle. Make 2" diagonal cuts down the side about an inch apart.
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Spread the cream cheese filling down the center. Next add the apple filling on top of the cream cheese filling.
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Next crisscross the strips of dough over the filling to create a braided look.
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Bake at 350° for 20 minutes. While apple braid is in the oven make your glaze. In a bowl add the powdered sugar, water and vanilla extract. Stir and mix well. If glaze is too runny add a small amount of powered sugar until you reach desired consistency.
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Remove from oven and allow to cool for a 2-3 minutes. Drizzle glaze on the top of apple braid and enjoy.