Cottage Cheese Crescent Roll Recipe

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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; add a simple almond-flavored powdered sugar icing to dress them up. Think of these rolls as little puff pastries in the shape of crescent rolls.

These easy Cottage Cheese Crescent Rolls are also known as butter horn rolls are a favorite treat in our house. The dough is super easy to make and you can even make the dough ahead, chill it and roll the crescents later.  I have even frozen the dough and the rolls come out just as delicious.

You can add so many other flavors to these crescents

Try these favorites

• Cinnamon Crescent Rolls – just add a sprinkling of cinnamon to the dough before rolling
• Spread the dough with your favorite jam
• Sprinkle with cheese
• Make these rolls savory herbs like thyme, rosemary or chives
• Go south of the border and sprinkle with ground cumin and diced pepper

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

• Butter
• Flour
• Cottage Cheese

Here are the three ingredients for the almond-flavored icing

• Powdered Sugar
• Milk
• Almond extract

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. You may need to rechill the butter so it is nice and cold
2. Mix the cottage cheese, cold 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 rimmed baking sheet
6. Bake until nice and golden brown, then remove from the oven to cool on a wire rack
7. Make the icing by combining the powdered sugar, milk, and almond extract, and stir until the icing is nice and smooth.
8. Finish the crescents by drizzling the icing over the rolls.

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 a 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 so you end up with 16 wedges, then roll up each wedge starting at the widest end.

Place the rolls on a rimmed baking sheet with the rolled end down this will keep the crescent shape intact while baking. Some butter will melt out of the rolls while baking. Sometimes, I will drain off some of the butter from the baking pan with a spoon if there is too much butter. 

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.

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Make sure you have a baking sheet that has a rim around it

A pizza cutter makes it’s fast and easy to cut the dough into wedges

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Cottage Cheese Crescent Rolls

Butter, flour and cottage cheese are the base to these tender bite-sized Cottage Cheese Crescent Rolls that are topped with a sweet almond icing. Bake a batch of crescent rolls for a brunch, dessert or just for snacks.

Course Bread, Pastries

Cuisine American

Keyword butterhorns, crescent rolls

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Chill time 15 minutes

Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes

Servings 32 rolls

Calories 107kcal

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

• Cut the cold butter into small cubes or you can grate the butter. Rechill the butter while prepping the other ingredients.
• In a large bowl add all the flour, cottage cheese, and the chilled butter cubes 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. Store any leftover rolls in an airtight container.

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.

If it is a hot day you can put the rolls in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.

Some butter will melt out of the rolls during baking, you can drain some of it off the baking sheet with a spoon if necessary

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 107kcal | Carbohydrates: 10g | Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 16mg | Sodium: 99mg

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About Jere’

From learning to cook on a farm in Indiana to culinary school in California,  my passion for food is never-ending.  Turning on my oven to bake something for friends and family is my happy place, and I am glad to be here at One Hot Oven sharing both sweet and savory recipes with all my baking friends.

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