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heart shaped raspberry cream cheese danishes on a cutting board

HOW TO MAKE HEART-SHAPED DANISH PASTRIES

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Equipment

  • baking pan
  • parchment
  • Mixing bowls
  • Spatula

Ingredients

The filling:

  • 4 oz cream cheese softened ½ block of cream cheese
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/4 cup powdered sugar ½ cup to make sweeter
  • 1/3 cup raspberries

Glaze:

  • 1 tablespoon Lemon juice Fresh squeezed recommended
  • ½ cup powdered sugar

Instructions

  • Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare baking pan by lining it with parchment paper.

Raspberry Cream Cheese Filling

  • In a medium-sized mixing bowl, mix the softened cream cheese, vanilla extract, powdered sugar, and raspberries.
    spatula in a bowl of raspberry cream cheese mixture

Crescent Roll Pastry

  • Prepare crescent dough by cutting the roll in half. Set the halves side by side, with the dough sheet bottom facing each other.
    knife near cut log of crescent roll dough
  • Overlap the dough out slightly and press the dough sheets together.
  • Slice the double log of dough into 1 inch thick slices.
    a slice off two logs of crescent rolls
  • Form into heart shapes by pinching the end into a point and pressing with your fingers in the dough to round out the heart shape. Make the center a bit sunken to make room for the filling.
    crescent dough formed into a heart
  • Lay each heart shape onto the parchment paper in the baking pan.
  • Spoon the raspberry cream cheese filling onto each crescent dough center, following the heart shape.
    spooning raspberry cream cheese mixture onto heart shaped crescent rolls
  • Bake for 15-18 minutes or until golden brown.
    freshly baked heart shaped pastries

Glaze

  • In a small bowl, squeeze about 1 T of lemon juice and stir in the powdered sugar.
    fresh orange juice being poured into powdered sugar
  • Drizzle over each heart shape and enjoy.
    spooning orange glaze onto a heart shaped raspberry danish