Cottage Cheese Crescent Roll Recipe

Don’t you love it when you find a recipe that is sinfully good and is quick and easy to make with few ingredients?  Well, this is the recipe, Cottage Cheese Crescent Rolls. So when I say a few ingredients this recipe only takes three; butter, flour, and cottage cheese. Of course, there is the option to add more ingredients if you want to sweeten things up a bit, but the basic three will get you deliciously rich, flaky and buttery rolls. I added a simple almond-flavored powdered sugar icing to dress them up.

Flaky Buttery Crescent Rolls

These easy Cottage Cheese Crescent Rolls are also known as butterhorn rolls and are a favorite treat in our house.  It’s hard to resist rolls that are light, tender, flaky, buttery and melt-in-your-mouth delicious. Think of them as little puff pastries in the shape of crescent rolls.

There is one ingredient in these tasty crescents that makes these rolls amazing. This recipe calls for Cottage Cheese! Yes, the humble white cheese curds add moistness to the rolls and makes them tender.

 Here are the three ingredients for the rolls, so simple.

1. Butter
2. Flour
3. Cottage Cheese

Here are the three ingredients for the almond-flavored icing

• Powdered Sugar
• Milk
• Almond extract

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How to make Cottage Cheese Crescent Rolls

1. Make sure your butter is cold and cut into very small cubes. Optionally, you can grate the butter.
2. Mix the cottage cheese, butter, and flour in a large bowl until combined
3. Turn the dough out on a floured pastry cloth and form into a disk
4. Roll the dough into a large circle then with a pizza cutter, cut into 16 triangles
5. Roll each triangle up starting at the wide end and place on a baking sheet
6. Bake until nice and golden brown

Look how nicely this dough comes together. It’s nice and moist and you can see the pieces of butter and cottage cheese.

Roll out the dough into 10 to 12″ circle then cut into four wedges.  I actually use my pizza cutter for this

Cut each of the four wedges four more times and roll up starting at the widest end.

Place the rolls on a rimmed baking sheet with the rolled end down this will keep the rolls intact while baking. 

And these become golden brown, tender flaky bites of deliciousness with a sweet almond icing.

It is amazing what a few simple ingredients can turn into. Bake up a batch of these delectable homemade crescent rolls for breakfast, brunch, or maybe a potluck.  I guarantee everyone will love these rolls.

Sweet Crescent Rolls

Baking equipment for this recipe

Make sure you have a baking sheet that has a rim around it, and I like to use a pizza cutter since it’s fast and easy to cut the dough into wedges.

I am a big fan of bite-sized treats for desserts and appetizers.  Here are a few of my favorites.

Pecan Tassies are just like mini pecans pies and very easy to make.

Swiss Cheese Quiches are bite-size quiches filled with a savory egg custard.

Jelly Roll Pie Tarts are simply made with pie dough and your favorite jam or jelly, these are a favorite.

Mini Chicken Taco Cups have all the flavors of a taco but in a bite-size cups.

Let’s bake these delicious cottage cheese rolls.

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Cottage Cheese Crescent Rolls

Butter, flour and cottage cheese are the base to this bite-sized Cottage Cheese Crescent Rolls that are topped with a sweet almond icing.

Course Bread

Cuisine American

Keyword crescent rolls

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Chill time 15 minutes

Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes

Servings 32 rolls

Calories 100kcal

Author Jere Cassidy @ One Hot Oven

Equipment

• Rolling Pin
• Rolling Mat
• Pizza Cutter
• Rimmed Baking Sheet

Ingredients

Cottage Cheese Crescent Roll Dough

• 2 cups flour
• 2 cups small curd cottage cheese
• 1 cup butter, cut into small cubes

Almond Icing

• 1 cup powdered sugar sifted
• 1/2 - 1 tbls. milk
• 1/2 tsp. almond extract

Instructions

Making the crescent dough

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  
• In a large bowl add all the dough ingredients and mix with a spoon until well combined
  
• Divide the dough into two equal portions, wrap in plastic and chill until firm about 15 minutes.
  
• On a lightly floured surface roll each dough portion into a 1/8" thick circle about 10-12 inches.
  
• Cut the dough circle into quarters, then cut each quarter into four smaller triangles. Roll each small wedge starting at the widest part and place each crescent on a rimmed cookie sheet, seam side down.
  
• Bake for 30 - 35 minutes until lightly browned. Some butter will bake out of the rolls, the colder the dough is the better.
• Move the rolls to a cooling rack.

Making the almond icing

• In a small bowl add the sifted powdered sugar, milk and almond extract. Add additional milk if the icing is too thick.
• Leave the rolls on the cooling rack and place a piece of parchment or wax paper under the rack. With a fork, drizzle the icing over the rolls.
• These rolls are best eaten the day they are made.

Notes

Use a rimmed cookie sheet to bake the rolls on. 

Bake the rolls as soon as they are rolled out to keep the butter cold.

Some butter will melt out of the rolls during baking 

Nutrition

Serving: 16g | Calories: 100kcal | Carbohydrates: 16g | Protein: 1.9g | Fat: 6g | Sodium: 140mg