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Cottage Cheese Crescent Roll Recipe

October 5, 2020 By Jere Cassidy 12 Comments

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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.

Crescents rolls on a cooling rack

First Published: Sept. 27, 2014… Last Updated: Oct. 15, 2020

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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

 

Cottage Cheese Crescents

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.

Mixing crescent rolls ingredients and dough

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

Cutting the crescent dough into trianlges for rolling

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.

crescent rolls on a cookie sheet ready to bake

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.

Baked and iced Cottage Cheese Crescents 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.

cottage cheese crescent rolls

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

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Baked Cottage Cheese Crescent Rolls in a cooling rack
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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.
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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
2 baking sheets.
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

  • Baking temperature - 350° F. You will need to use a baking sheet with sides since some butter will melt out of the crescents.
  • 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 at 350 degrees F., 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: 1 | Calories: 107kcal | Carbohydrates: 10g | Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 16mg | Sodium: 99mg

Glazed Cottage Cheese Crescent Rolls with blackerries and a cup of tea

Thank you for stopping by the One Hot Oven blog.  Please leave a comment to say Hello or just let me know what you are baking these days, I always love hearing from fellow bakers.

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.

Have any questions or just want to chat about the recipe? Contact me here, and I’ll be happy to help!

 

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Comments

  1. Bhawana

    October 12, 2019 at 9:18 pm

    5 stars
    such a mouthwatering dessert one can have. I loved this detailed post and bookmarked. came out really well.

    Reply
  2. Adrianne

    October 12, 2019 at 8:33 pm

    5 stars
    Not only do these sound delicious, they look delicious too!! Love how simple the ingredients are and that I don’t need to buy 100 things to make them! Thanks

    Reply
    • Jere Cassidy

      October 14, 2019 at 9:33 am

      These rolls are delicious and I agree I just don’t want tons of ingredients when I want to bake something.

      Reply
      • Jane

        September 27, 2020 at 7:24 pm

        5 stars
        Since we’re not fans of sweet rolls, I cut each dough circle into 8 pieces, put ham, pickled red pepper strips and a bit of Parmesan cheese on the triangle and rolled it. Let me tell you, it was amazing! Thank you for the recipe. It’s a regular now 🙂

        Reply
        • Jere Cassidy

          September 29, 2020 at 7:11 pm

          Well, that sounds absolutely delicious. These crescents are perfect for making savory.

          Reply
  3. Tayo

    October 12, 2019 at 7:54 pm

    5 stars
    So easy and with only three ingredients! Can’t wait to make this. Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  4. Beth

    October 12, 2019 at 7:50 pm

    5 stars
    I love everything about this recipe: cottage cheese, crescent rolls, almond icing and my favorite, quick and easy!! This has been added to my “Must Try” list!

    Reply
    • Jere Cassidy

      October 14, 2019 at 9:34 am

      Thanks so much, these rolls are so delicious.

      Reply
  5. Denay DeGuzman

    October 12, 2019 at 7:37 pm

    5 stars
    These delicious crescent rolls with almond icing look absolutely stunning! I’d love to bake up a batch for Sunday brunch.

    Reply
    • Jere Cassidy

      October 14, 2019 at 9:35 am

      These are the perfect little sweet rolls to add to a brunch.

      Reply
  6. OneHotOven

    January 8, 2015 at 7:17 pm

    Making these for a tea party. They will go nicely with my favorite jasmine tea.

    Reply

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