9 Easy Crescent Roll Recipes That Cover Breakfast to Dessert (2024)

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Whether you're craving crescent roll recipes made from scratch or are dreaming of semi-homemade recipes that use crescent roll dough, these sweet and savory crescent roll recipes will rise to the occasion. Check out recipes such as chicken pot pie with crescent rolls (talk about easy!), crescent-wrapped apple dumplings, and party-starting crescent roll appetizer recipes.

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Air-Fried Donut Sticks

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Make any day feel like it's state fair season with this easy air fryer dessert. Flavored like a churro but a breeze to prep in a mere 15 minutes, we love to serve this unique recipe that uses crescent roll dough. Portion six sticks around each dipper so each diner can grab one and dunk as desired in jam, melted chocolate, honey, caramel sauce, or frosting.

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Make-It-Mine Pot Pie

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If you prefer your recipes to allow for some flexibility, this comfort food dinner idea is for you. Choose your favorite meat, frozen vegetables, condensed soup or gravy, seasoning, cheese, and topper to BYOP (build your own pie). For a far-simpler but just-like-Grandma-made variation, we adore chicken pot pie with crescent rolls, cream of chicken soup, peas and carrots, and dried thyme.

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Nutty Honey Mini Rolls

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Bust out your mini muffin tin. It's the perfect tool to help make these two-bite treats just the right portion size for brunch parties and bake sales. It will be our little secret that the honey-scented, almond-sprinkled crescent roll breakfast started with a package of crescent roll dough.

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Mummy Hot Dog

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One conundrum we will never understand: Why are hot dogs typically sold in packs of 10, while their buns come in bags of eight? Steer clear of this mismatch entirely by trading a tube of purchased dough for the buns to make crescent roll hot dogs. This savory crescent roll recipe is like a cheese dog wrapped end to end in a flaky, buttery "bun."

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Pumpkin Crescent Rolls with Honey Butter

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Next time you're brainstorming what to do with extra canned pumpkin lying around after using a half cup or so for another recipe, make some rolls. Pumpkin-spiced rolls, that is! This crescent roll idea features canned pumpkin in the yeast bread dough, which yields remarkably tender results. Honey butter, cinnamon, and brown sugar pretty much guarantee these will steal the show at any meal or party you serve them.

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Crescent Rolls

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Mashed potatoes are the secret ingredient in one of our Test Kitchen's most popular cinnamon roll recipes. And here, mashed potato flakes are the secret to this tender, soft, and pillowy made-from-scratch crescent roll recipe. A bit of butter and brown sugar make these half-whole-wheat yeast rolls pleasantly sweet and ideal for brunch or snack time.

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Egg-in-a-Bundle

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A BEC (bacon, egg, and cheese) sandwich is a New York City staple for good reason…it's fast, filling, and flavorful. For a speedy and less messy rendition, nestle bacon and eggs into a hand-held pastry for breakfast or lunch on the go.

Test Kitchen Tip: Get a headstart on this stuffed crescent roll recipe by purchasing prepared hard-cooked eggs. (Or if time allows, choose your favorite from our top four ways to hard-boil eggs at home.)

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Crescent Roll Cinnamon Rolls

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Drive or stroll right past the bakery. These crescent roll cinnamon rolls taste just as good as the pricey purchased treats—and require just 10 minutes of prep time. Plus there's no need to fuss with yeast, kneading, and flouring up your kitchen as you might with DIY sweet rolls. Round up one package of crescent roll dough and a few other baking staples and you're all set.

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Ham-and-Cheese Crescent Snacks

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Feed a crowd of hungry kids (or kids at heart) with this 12-slice snack. Inspired by a Denver omelet, this ham and cheese crescent roll flatbread has become one of our go-to party snacks. Simply press a package of rolls into a 9- x 13-inch pan, top with a mustard-butter "sauce," and garnish the savory pie with the usual omelet fixings: ham, onion, bell pepper, and cheese.

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What is the difference between crescent and crescent rolls? ›

Croissants are made from puff pastry, which gives you layer upon layer of flaky, crisp, buttery pastry. They traditionally are rolled triangles that are slightly curved into a crescent shape. Crescent rolls have the same basic shape as croissants, but are made of bread dough; hence, they are rolls and not pastry.

How healthy are crescent rolls? ›

They contain trans fat.

The downside to using hydrogenated palm oil is that it contains trans fat, which is bad for your cholesterol. It's not so good for your body, which is why you should definitely eat these babies in moderation.

What are the ingredients in crescent rolls? ›

Enriched Flour Bleached (wheat flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), Water, Vegetable Shortening (soybean and palm oil, hydrogenated palm oil, fractionated palm oil, water, mono and diglycerides, TBHQ and citric acid [preservatives], beta carotene [for color]), Sugar, Soybean Oil ...

What is the difference between puff pastry and crescent rolls? ›

The crescent-shaped croissant is a flaky pastry with buttery layers whereas a puff pastry is a drier composition of dough. Both use similar ingredients and preparation work.

Can you use crescent dough sheets instead of puff pastry? ›

Lucky for you, easy-bake crescents stand in for traditional puff pastry. It's a classic dessert with convenience!

What is the difference between a croissant and a Cornetto? ›

Typical of the Italian tradition, cornetto involves the use of eggs and tends to be sweet and flavored; on the contrary, the croissant has no eggs and has a fairly neutral taste, except for the characteristic hint of butter.

Is it OK to have a croissant for breakfast? ›

Is a croissant a healthy breakfast? A croissant on its own won't make for a healthy breakfast. This is because croissants aren't considered a nutrient-rich food. However, if eaten in combination with other foods that have more nutritional value, croissants can be incorporated in a healthy and balanced breakfast meal.

Can you eat a croissant every day? ›

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recommends several servings of grains daily — 6 ounces for women or 7 ounces for men — as part of a balanced diet. While at least half of your grain servings should come from whole grains, you can also consume some foods made from refined grains, including croissants.

Why are crescent rolls so good? ›

Flavor: Butter is the key flavor in crescent rolls. It's what makes them so darn craveable (and it's the reason there's never one left in the bread basket). Canned crescent rolls should have perfect butter flavor with a hint of salt—the right combo for munching solo or using as the foundation for plenty of recipes.

Can you save unused crescent roll dough? ›

Our biscuits crescent and cinnamon rolls are in pressurized cans, you should NOT freeze them. However, if you open the container and have unbaked leftovers, you can freeze them in a sealed bag for up to two weeks. Before preparing them, defrost the frozen dough so they bake properly.

Why are Pillsbury crescent rolls so good? ›

The spongy dough, the prefabricated demarcations for separating each piece into its own obtuse triangle, the saccharine smell as they bake off, puffing up higher and higher until the layers finally congeal and toast to the perfect golden color.

What is a crescent shaped roll made with butter flakey and sometimes filled? ›

A croissant (UK: /ˈkrwʌsɒ̃, ˈkrwæsɒ̃/, US: /krəˈsɒnt, krwɑːˈsɒ̃/, French: [kʁwasɑ̃]) is a French pastry made from puff pastry in a crescent shape. It is a buttery, flaky, viennoiserie pastry inspired by the shape of the Austrian kipferl but using the French yeast-leavened laminated dough.

Are Pillsbury crescent rolls the same as croissants? ›

Crescent rolls have a similar crescent-moon shape as croissants, but most aspects of these baked goods are different. Unlike croissants, crescent rolls are not laminated. This makes crescent rolls more bread-like than croissants.

What is crescent pastry called? ›

croissant, French pastry that is typically crescent-shaped, which is the origin of its French name. Although there are earlier culinary references to “croissants,” the first recipe for the croissant as it is known today emerged only as recently as 1906.

Why are they called crescent rolls? ›

Croissants are named for their historical crescent shape. The dough is layered with butter, rolled and folded several times in succession, then rolled into a thin sheet, in a technique called laminating. The process results in a layered, flaky texture, similar to a puff pastry.

What makes a crescent a crescent? ›

It is a circular disk with a portion of another disk removed from it so that what remains is a shape enclosed by two circular arcs which intersect at two points. In simpler terms, crescent shapes are made when two circles overlap or when one circle is removed from another.

What are crescent rolls in USA? ›

Crescent rolls
  • Croissant, a crescent-shaped puff pastry.
  • Pillsbury Crescents, a type of premade puff pastry dough made by The Pillsbury Company invented in the United States in the 1960s. ...
  • Crescent roll dough, a yeasty dough similar to puff pastry and pie crust.

Why is a crescent called a crescent? ›

The word crescent is derived etymologically from the present participle of the Latin verb crescere "to grow", technically denoting the waxing moon (luna crescens).

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