These raspberry twists with lemon glaze combine sweet raspberry filling with golden, buttery crescent dough, and a sweet, citrusy glaze to create a delicious treat you’ll love.
We love making pastries of all sorts. They’re the perfect sweet breakfast, brunch, or dessert recipes.
Recipes like blueberry cream cheese crescent rolls and puff pastry caramel apple slices give any start to the morning or afternoon a nice dose of sweetness.
These fruity, citrusy bites are a new and delicious entry to our pastry recipe rotation, and you’re going to love them. With so much raspberry, lemon, and buttery pastry flavor, you can’t resist them!
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Simplie Ingredients: Everything you need is either in your kitchen or your local grocery store.
- Easy: This simple recipe requires little effort for all the flavor you get.
- Sweet, Tart, and Citrusy: The raspberry filling is sweet and slightly tart, and the glaze is bright and citrusy.
- Customizable: You can easily create all kinds of variations with one simple change.
- Versatile: This recipe is perfect for breakfast, brunch, or afternoon snacking.
Key Ingredients
You’ll find a full list of ingredients and their exact amounts in the recipe card at the bottom of the post.
- Crescent Dough: The buttery flavor of crescent dough works perfectly with the other fruity, citrusy flavors in this recipe.
- Raspberries: Raspberries are bright, sweet, and a bit tart, making a perfect balance of flavors for the filling.
- Lemon Juice and Zest: Lemon juice and zest give the simple glaze its bright, tart, and sweet citrus flavor.
Variations
- Filling: Use any of your favorite berries for this recipe. Finely diced apples, pears, peaches, or pineapple also work well.
- Glaze: You replace the lemon juice and zest with milk for a sweet, plain glaze.
- Puff Pastry: Use puff pastry for a flakier twist.
How to Make Raspberry Twists with Lemon Glaze
Step 1: Bring the filling ingredients to a boil over medium heat and cook until thickened. Let cool.
Step 2: Lay the crescent dough out and pinch the perforated lines together. Then, slice the sheets lengthwise into strips and cut them in half.
Step 3: Add a little filling to the center of one strip and place another strip on top.
Step 4: Twist the strips together and place on a prepared baking sheet. Repeat until all the dough is used.
Step 5: Bake until golden brown. Then, set aside to cool.
Step 6: Mix the glaze ingredients, then spoon it over the twists. Enjoy!
Expert Tips
- Keep your heat on medium when cooking the filling to avoid burning.
- Give the dough a gentle roll to even out the edges after sealing the seams.
- Let the twists cool fully so the glaze stays in place instead of sliding off.
Raspberry Twists with Lemon Glaze FAQs
Raspberry twists are an easy pastry made with raspberry compote-filled crescent strips that are twisted and baked until golden.
No, you don’t. Crescent dough naturally becomes golden while baking. However, adding an egg wash will give it extra sheen.
Refrigerate these twists for up to 5 days in an airtight container.
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Raspbery Twists with Lemon Glaze
Ingredients
- 2 cans Pillsbury crescent rolls
Raspberry Filling
- 12 ounce fresh raspberries
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
Lemon Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Raspberry Filling
- In a saucepan over medium heat, add raspberries, sugar, brown sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice, and cornstarch. Stir and bring to a boil until the raspberries start to thicken. Let cool.
- On a lightly floured surface, lay out crescent dough, one can at a time, and pinch the perforated lines together.
- Roll dough so edges are even.
- Carefully slice into 1-inch strips lengthwise and then cut each strip in half. (Should have 14 pieces of dough from each can of crescent rolls)
- Add some raspberry mixture down the center of one strip.
- Place another strip on top of the raspberry mixture.
- Gently twist the two strips together and lay on the prepared baking sheet.
- Repeat with the remaining ingredients.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden.
- Remove from the oven and let cool.
Lemon Glaze
- Mix all the glaze ingredients together and spoon glaze over the cooled twists. Enjoy!
Notes
- Keep your heat on medium when cooking the filling to avoid burning.
- Give the dough a gentle roll to even out the edges after sealing the seams.
- Let the twists cool fully so the glaze stays in place instead of sliding off.
These are so good. I love the raspberry with the lemon glaze, and they’re so easy.
Love this combo of flavors, and just twisting the dough is so much easier than braids and other fancy stuff. Great recipe.
These are so brilliant. They look really cool, but were so easy to make. Most importantly, they were delicious. I will make these again.
I baked these this morning and they were delicious. The raspberry filling and lemon glaze are such a good combo!
These were so delicious! We made them during the snowstorm and it was such a cozy treat to have the next morning with coffee. Love a homemade pastry!
I love this easy snack! Adding raspberry jam is my new favorite twist.