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; 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.

Three ingredients for the rolls, so simple

• Butter
• Flour
• Cottage Cheese

Three ingredients for the almond-flavored icing

• Powdered Sugar
• Milk
• Almond extract

How to make and bake

Step 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

Step 2. Mix the cottage cheese, cold butter, and flour in a large bowl until combined

Step 3. Turn the dough out on a floured pastry cloth and form into a disk

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

Step 4. Roll the dough into a large circle then with a pizza cutter, cut into 16 triangles

Step 5. Roll each triangle up starting at the wide end and place the rolls on a rimmed baking sheet with the rolled end down, this will keep the crescent shape intact while baking.  Sometimes, I will drain off the butter from the baking pan with a spoon if there is too much butter.

Step 6. Bake at 350 degrees F. for 30 minutes until nice and golden brown, then remove from the oven to cool on a wire rack

Step 7. Make the icing by combining the powdered sugar, milk, and almond extract, and stir until the icing is nice and smooth.

Step 8. Finish the crescents by drizzling the icing over the rolls.

 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.

These rolls are best eaten the day they are made, but if you do find yourself with leftovers since this recipe makes 32 rolls they will still taste good over the next couple of days but the texture will not be the same.

Baking equipment for this recipe

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

A cloth rolling mat is a must for working with pastry doughs and pie doughs

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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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