Rise and shine with this Easy Sausage & Cream Cheese Crescent Roll, which features flaky, golden crescents filled with a warm, savory blend of melted cream cheese and juicy sausage.
Sausage and Cream Cheese Breakfast Crescent Roll
These Sausage and Cream Cheese Crescent Rolls are bursting with flavor and guaranteed to please a crowd. Just imagine…warm, flaky crescent bread oozing with melted cream cheese and sausage. These sausage filled crescents are the perfect way to start the day, whether you’re feeding a hungry family or hosting a holiday brunch.
Simple to prepare and incredibly satisfying, these crescent rolls are sure to become a new breakfast staple. Plus, the gooey cream cheese and savory sausage filling is sure to leave everyone asking for seconds!
This recipe is really easy but is also really delicious. There are only five ingredients (though you can get away with just three) if you don’t have poppy seeds on hand.
A friend gave me this recipe last year and said that it was a family favorite in their family. Now that I’ve made this crescent roll sausage bake, I can understand why. It is my newest favorite and I can’t wait to serve it to my family!
Growing up, crescent rolls were a treat in our family. I would be an adult before I tried my first croissant. When I was a young mom, crescent rolls were the base for many recipes, especially recipes to share with friends or take to potlucks.
As much as I loved crescent rolls, I had never tried them combined with sausage and cream cheese. This combination is classic and popular recipe online. Our recipe takes it a step further by adding and egg wash and poppy seeds to the top.
This recipe can do many duties. It would be absolutely perfect to serve for breakfast, which is how I served it. However, it would also make a delightful party appetizer to serve in your own home or take to any gathering. I also think this works well as lunch or dinner. Served with a salad or fruit, it is very satisfying. I know because I did have it for dinner!
Ingredients
- 2 packages of crescent roll dough
- 1-pound mild breakfast sausage
- 8 ounces of cream cheese
- 1 egg for egg wash (optional
- Poppy seeds (optional)
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Instructions
To Prep: Preheat oven to 350°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Brown and break up the sausage in a large skillet. When cooked through, drain if needed. Cut up the block of cream cheese into small pieces. Stir into the still warm sausage.
- Roll out the crescent dough sheets onto your prepared pan and smooth out the perforations. Spoon half of the sausage mixture on the center of each sheet of dough. Fold each side of the dough into the middle and tuck in the ends, forming a large rectangle or loaf shape.
- Make the egg wash by beating on egg until the white and yolk are combined. Brush the tops of the with egg wash and sprinkle with poppy seeds.
- Bake for 25 – 30 minutes until golden brown.
Prep Tips
- Make-Ahead – To save time, you could prepare the sausage the night before and keep in the fridge. In the morning, simply assemble the crescent rolls and cooked sausage and bake!
- Sausage – I used a mild breakfast sausage when preparing this recipe. If you like it spicy, you could also try something with more of a kick! You could also use something lighter, such as turkey sausage, but you want to make sure that it is breakfast sausage (which is seasoned) or it might taste bland.
- Add-Ons – This is a super simple recipe, but you can add in more ingredients if you’d like to customize the flavors. Cooked onions or bell peppers would go well with the sausage and cream cheese filling, if you want to add some veggies. You could even add more cheese, such as cheddar cheese. But I do think this recipe is perfectly flavorful as is!
- Serving – When serving, I cut into slices, for easy hand-held bites.
Cream Cheese and Sausage Crescent Roll Recipe (Printable Recipe Card)
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Cream Cheese and Sausage Crescent Roll
Equipment
- large skillet
- Baking pan
Ingredients
- 2 rolls crescent roll dough
- 1 pound sausage
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- Egg Wash optional
- Poppy Seeds optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Brown and break up the sausage in a large skillet. When cooked through, drain if needed.
- Cut up the block of cream cheese into small pieces and stir into the warm sausage.
- Roll out the crescent dough sheets out onto prepared pan and smooth out the perforations.
- Spoon half or the sausage filling on the center of each sheet of dough.
- Fold each side of the dough into the middle and tuck in the ends.
- Make the egg wash by beating on egg until the white and yolk are combined.
- Brush the tops of the with egg wash and sprinkle with poppy seeds.
- Bake for 25 – 30 minutes until golden brown.
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