We love desserts and this Strawberry Cream Cheese Dessert is one of new favorites! This easy to make dessert is made with just a few ingredients and one being Pillsbury Crescent Rolls. I would normally use these crescent rolls to make cinnamon rolls, pigs in a blanket for the kids and spinach and cheese rolls. This Strawberry Cream Cheese Dessert is going to be moving those out of the way for my favorite thing to make with the crescent rolls.
This recipe is so easy to make you will wonder how you never did this before now. If you are like me, you like recipes that don’t put you in the kitchen for hours especially when you have kids running around. This recipe takes no time at all. It takes about 30 minutes to make the entire dessert.
Easy to make and fun for kids
To get started make sure you have 2 packages of the Pillsbury Crescent Rolls, fresh strawberries, cream cheese, sugar, and strawberry jam. If you don’t like strawberries you can always substitute them with fresh blackberries and blackberry jam, fresh raspberries and raspberry jam, or apple pie filling.
I used a pizza pan since it will help create the round ring shape we will be making. Line it with a circle piece of parchment paper. Pop open the cans of dough and cut each slice in half. Then place them in a wreath shape with the small ends hanging off the pan and the large ends all touching in the middle. Leave an open circle in the middle of the pan. Press together the crescent roll large ends so they are all connected.
Then you will spread the cream cheese mixture on the large part of your crescent rolls making a full circle. Layer the fruit mixture on top of the cream cheese. Kids will like to do this part.
Fold over the crescent roll ends to the center of the pan and bake for 15-18 minutes. While baking, make your glaze mix with only milk and powdered sugar and a splash of vanilla extract if you wish.
This dessert is perfect for the holidays or everyday get togethers. I love this so much it will be our next Christmas morning breakfast.
Strawberry Cream Cheese Dessert
Ingredients
- 2 cans Pillsbury crescent rolls
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 8 oz cream cheese (softened)
- 1 1/2 cups fresh strawberries
- 1/4 cup strawberry preserves
Glaze
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°
- Line a pizza pan with parchment paper and cut it in a round shape the size of the pan.
- Pop open the crescent roll cans and unroll them. Slice each of the triangles into two smaller triangles lengthwise.
- Place the triangles in a circle on the pan with the wide end in the middle and the smaller end hanging off the side of the pan. Overlap them a little then press the crescent roll pieces together at the bottom .
- Stir the cream cheese and sugar together.
- Spread the cream cheese mixture over the wide part of the crescent rolls.
- In another bowl, mix strawberries and preserves. Spread this ontop of the cream cheese.
- Fold over the small end of the crescent triangles over the fruit and cream cheese pinching the ends together in the middle of the wreath.
- Bake for 15-18 minutes or until the top is golden brown.
- While baking, in another bowl, mis the powdered sugar and milk until blended. Add more milk if it's too thick or sugar if it's too runny.
- Drizzle over the baked crescent roll dessert.
- Best served warm. Enjoy!
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