Cream Cheese Raspberry Coffee Cake

This recipe comes from the good folks over at Pillsbury. They have some wonderful recipes available on their website. This coffee cake is divine!

 

Cream Cheese Raspberry Coffee Cake

 

 Coffee Cake

 2 cans (8 oz each Pillsbury® refrigerated crescent dinner rolls
1 teaspoon sugar                               
                               

Filling

1 package (8 oz.) cream cheese, softed

1/4 cup sugar

2 teaspoons grated orange peel                                          

1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
1 pint (2 cups) fresh raspberries                                          
                                           

Glaze

1/2 cup powdered sugar                              

1 tablespoon butter, softened
2 teaspoons orange juice

Heat oven to 350°F. Spray large cookie sheet or 14-inch pizza pan with nonstick cooking spray. Unroll both cans of dough; separate into 16 triangles. Reserve 4 triangles for topping. On sprayed cookie sheet, arrange 12 triangles in circle with points toward center, leaving 3-inch hole in center. Press dough to form 14-inch ring; press seams together to seal. Fold outer and center edges up 1/4 inch.

In medium bowl, combine all filling ingredients except raspberries; mix well. Gently stir in raspberries. (Mixture will be thin.) Spoon filling over dough.

With scissors or pizza cutter, cut each reserved triangle lengthwise into thirds. Place 1 teaspoon sugar on work surface. Press each dough strip into sugar. Arrange sugared dough strips, sugar side up, evenly in spoke-fashion over filling. Press ends to seal at center and outer edges.

Bake at 350°F. for 25 to 30 minutes or until golden brown. Cool 10 minutes.

In small bowl, combine powdered sugar, butter and orange juice; stir until smooth. Drizzle over coffee cake. Serve warm.

White Chocolate-Raspberry Pie

White chocolate and raspberry? Sounds like a winning combination to me. It comes from the Pillsbury site. Apparently, this recipe is for the top prize-winning pie from the 2010 State Fair Pie Contest.

White Chocolate-Raspberry Pie

1 Pillsbury® refrigerated pie crust, softened as directed on box
5 oz white chocolate baking squares
3 tablespoons milk
5 oz cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 to 1 teaspoon grated orange peel
1 cup whipping cream, whipped
3 cups fresh raspberries

Heat oven to 450°F. Make pie crust as directed on box for One-Crust Baked Shell, using 9-inch glass pie plate. Cool completely.

In microwavable bowl, microwave 4 squares of the white chocolate and the milk uncovered on MEDIUM about 2 minutes or until almost melted. Stir until melted. Cool to room temperature.

In small bowl, beat cream cheese, powdered sugar and orange peel with electric mixer on low speed until smooth. Beat in white chocolate mixture. Fold whipped cream into white chocolate mixture. Spread in bottom of cooled baked shell. Arrange raspberries on filling.

Melt remaining square of white chocolate; drizzle over pie. Refrigerate about 2 hours or until set. Cover and refrigerate any remaining pie.