To truly appreciate this delicious pastry, it helps to understand what exactly makes it so special. At its core, a Sweet Raspberry Cream Cheese Danish is a multilayered breakfast pastry that features a sweet cream cheese filling and a fruit topping. The foundational element is a laminated dough, which contains hundreds of microscopic layers of cold butter folded into the flour. When placed in a hot oven, the moisture in the butter evaporates, creating steam that lifts the layers of dough and gives the pastry its signature flaky, airy texture.