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.
Omg! Incredibly easy to make and so delicious! Yummy. Will be making these over and over again.
I’m so glad you enjoyed them! :)
Very easy to make. Delicious!!
I’m so glad you enjoyed them!
SUPER EASY & FAMILY FAVORITE
I was craving something sweet and came across this recipe and happen to have all the ingredients These turned out perfect and tasted so good
I’m so glad you enjoyed these! :)
My sister in law makes something like this but she rolls a marshmallow in the butter/cinnamon/sugar and then wraps the crescent roll around it. Marshmallow disappears during baking and creates sweetness inside.
We make those during Easter time and call them Resurrection rolls. Such a fun treat to make with kids. :)
OMG so good. I love crescent rolls – there’s so much you can do with them, I always have at least one roll of them in the fridge at all times. Made these for dessert last night and they were a huge hit!
YUM! I made these as an alternative to homemade cinnamon rolls, and my girls loved them!
I know what I am having for breakfast tomorrow! This looks like a great way to start my day! Delish!
If you make them, just know that they’re totally addicting!!
Love how easy these are to make! So YUMMY! Thank you!
I’m so glad you enjoy them!
Have you ever cut each crescent roll into 2 or 3 triangles? It makes each roll single bite size. I do that for pigs in a blanket. I will try it with peanut butter and jelly. WhT do you think?
Sounds delicious! I think it will work great! :)
can you use can chocolate icing instead of the nutella ?are just some melted chocolate
?We dont’ really like the nutella, on the dessert crescent rolls
Absolutely! That would be delicious!
Just made these. I am a big fan of chocolate, banana, and peanut butter together, so I added banana slices. I also added some toffee bits. Holy moly is that good!
I must admit I had my doubts about this recipe.. However, I ended up using the Hershey’s version version of Nutella…Although when I got it home.. I noticed it was just plain Hershey’s chocolate. I made just the one batch, OMG
Amazing, right?! :)
We put a few chocolate chips and a spoon full of raspberry jam and have them for breakfast.
Sounds delicious Megan! Thanks for stopping by! :)
These might just be my new addiction! So yummy!
Seriously, I love how easy and delicious these are!!
Omg that looks so good.
We always make them just using the Nutella and sprinkle them with powdered sugar when they are done. Everyone LOVES them in our house. As my boys get bigger though, it is getting harder and harder for me to only make one batch of them…. Much less one batch of anything! I’m going to be cooking massive amounts of food when they hit their teen years!