Perfectly flaky crescent rolls with a cinnamon sugar filling and sweet vanilla glaze. This delicious recipe will become one of your favorite crescent roll desserts!
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Easy Dessert in 20 minutes
Do you ever find yourself craving dessert late at night but don’t feel like baking up a storm? These dessert crescent rolls are the PERFECT treat and are easy to whip up! :)
I made these cinnamon crescent rolls yesterday and they were such a yummy treat. The boys loved them and were begging for seconds. These were seriously very easy to make and it’s the perfect treat to let your kids help out with.
With this recipe, you can have a yummy dessert prepared and cooked in 20 minutes. They’re perfectly flaky, with a delicious cinnamon sugar filling and sweet glaze. Similar flavor to a cinnamon roll or cruffin, but easier and more flaky!
If you’re a fan of all things cinnamon and sugar, you’ll love my easy homemade churros, monkey bread, cinnamon oat baked apples, cinnamon swirl bread and cinnamon roll sugar cookies.
Ingredients
Find the full printable recipe with specific measurements below.
- Pillsbury crescent rolls: You can find these in a can in the refrigerator section.
- Butter: This will add great flavor and help bind the sugar and cinnamon.
- Brown sugar: This will make the sweet filling even more delicious.
- Cinnamon: This adds the perfect flavor and replicate a cinnamon roll.
- Powdered sugar glaze: just powdered sugar and milk to create this easy powdered sugar icing.
How to Make Cinnamon Crescent Rolls
Step 1: Preheat oven and prepare baking sheet
Preheat the oven to 375°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Roll out the crescent dough and lay on top of the baking sheet.
Step 2: Spread filling on crescents
Mix together butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. Using a spoon, spread the filling on top of crescent dough. Then roll up the crescents and place on baking sheet with seams down.
Step 3: Bake crescents
Bake the cinnamon crescent rolls for 9-12 minutes, or until tops are lightly golden.
Step 4: Drizzle with glaze
Whisk together the powdered sugar, milk and vanilla. Then once the crescents have slightly cooled, drizzle glaze on top. Serve and enjoy!
Crescent Roll Desserts Variations
- Add chocolate chips or Nutella to make a delicious chocolatey version. It has similar flavors as my chocolate chip cinnamon rolls, but made with less work and time.
- Add nuts or chopped fruit for more flavor and texture.
- Other yummy toppings: powdered sugar, cream cheese glaze, caramel or melted chocolate.
- Can also make a variation for Nutella crescent rolls. Check out the ingredients and instructions in the recipe card below.
- Another fun variation is to make a cheesecake filling by spreading cream cheese on top of the dough before adding the brown sugar. You could even add some diced strawberries.
- I love using Pillsbury crescent roll dough for convenience just like with my crescent roll pizza recipe, but feel free to use homemade dough if desired
Storage and Reheating
- Storage: Add to an airtight container or zip top bag and store in fridge for 2-3 days.
- Freezing: Wrap each crescent individually in foil, then place in a freezer bag. Store in freezer for 1-2 months.
- Reheating: Reheat in the oven at 300°F until warm for best results (about 3-5 minutes).
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Cinnamon Crescent Rolls
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Ingredients
- 8 ounce package Pillsbury Original Crescent Rolls (8 rolls)
Filling:
- ¼ cup butter , softened
- ¼ cup light brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
Glaze:
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1-2 Tablespoons milk
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract , optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Roll out the crescents and lay them on the baking sheet or counter.
- Mix together the butter, brown sugar and ground cinnamon. Spread the filling on top of the crescent rolls with a spoon. You may not use it all. Then roll up and place on sheet with seams down.
- Bake for 9-12 minutes, or until lightly golden around the edges.
- Whisk together the powdered sugar, milk and vanilla. Once the crescents have slightly cooled, drizzle glaze on top. Enjoy while warm.
Notes
- Feel free to use homemade dough if desired.
- Can add in extras like chocolate chips, nuts or chopped fruit before you roll.
- Other yummy toppings: powdered sugar, caramel or melted chocolate.
- Freezing: Wrap each crescent individually in foil, then place in a freezer bag. Store in freezer for 1-2 months.
- Reheating: Reheat in the oven at 300°F until warm for best results (about 3-5 minutes).
Nutrition
Nutrition provided is an estimate. It will vary based on specific ingredients used.
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Categorized as: American, Biscuits + Rolls, Bread, Freezer-Friendly, Nut-Free
Jamielyn Nye is the founder and recipe creator at I Heart Naptime. She is the author of the I Heart Naptime Cookbook and shares easy family-friendly recipes and desserts for every occasion.
This was super quick and easy. There are only 2 of us in the house now so a whole roll of crescent is a lot. Saw this and baked 4 as dinner rolls and 4 as cinnamon crescent rolls. They were very tasty and hit the “quick dessert” button. Would definitely make them again! Thanks!
Yeah for making it work for you! Thanks for the review of the dessert cinnamon crescent rolls!
Super easy and quick dessert to make for my family and they all said, “Wow, these are really good!”
Thanks for the review, so glad the family enjoyed these!
What a great and simple recipe! Made this morning and everyone loved it. Nice size. Perfect sweetness. Thanks for a great recipe!
I’m so glad you enjoyed the crescent rolls Mary Kay :)
Way too much butter. Would cut that down by half next time I make them.
I made the mistake of using salted butter, as I saw I had a half stick in the fridge and didn’t check if it was salted or unsalted. However 5 stars because had I used unsalted they would have been great! Very easy.
Thanks CJ! I’m glad you enjoyed the recipe :)
Made and were delicious! Wondering if I added drained crushed pineapple if it would work?
Hi Ginny! I haven’t tested this recipe with pineapple. If you try it, let me know how it is!
I used the butter crescent rolls and added chopped pecans on top of the filling. Also, since I’m really not into glaze, and I had quite a bit of filling left over, I just spread it on top of the rolls before cooking. Served em warm, and OMG, they were amazingly good!!
Was wondering how long before baking you think I could do prep/filling before baking? Would love to have freshly baked after Christmas Eve dinner but don’t want to do the prep while guests are here.
You could roll them and place them in the refrigerator early in the afternoon. Or you could have them baked and just reheat in the oven for a couple minutes then add glaze.
These were delicious! Mine were a little messier than yours, but still certain tasty!
filling needs more cinnamon, but it’s yummy and tastes similar to cinnamon raisin toast.
I added finely chopped walnuts to the center before rolling them up. Then I sprinkled the nuts on top after drizzling with the glaze. Delicious!
I will try these recipes I am sure they will be all gone quickly. Thank you for the recipes they sound so good.