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.
There one ingredient in these tasty crescents that makes theses rolls amazing. 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
- Make sure your butter is cold and cut into very small cubes. Optionally, you can grate the butter.
- Mix the cottage cheese, butter, and flour in a large bowl until combined
- Turn the dough out on a floured pastry cloth and form into a disk
- Roll the dough into a large circle then with a pizza cutter, cut into 16 triangles
- Roll each triangle up starting at the wide end and place on a baking sheet
- 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.
Cottage Cheese Crescent Rolls
Equipment
- Pizza Cutter
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 20-30 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
Nutrition
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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
These rolls are delicious and I agree I just don’t want tons of ingredients when I want to bake something.
So easy and with only three ingredients! Can’t wait to make this. Thanks for sharing!
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!
Thanks so much, these rolls are so delicious.
These delicious crescent rolls with almond icing look absolutely stunning! I’d love to bake up a batch for Sunday brunch.
These are the perfect little sweet rolls to add to a brunch.
I have an acquaintance who used to bring something similar to church to go with coffee before service. I asked her for the recipe, but she declined to provide it. She just said teasingly, “You’d never guess it’s made with cottage cheese.” This was before the age of widespread computer searches, and long before Pinterest. When I saw these, I went, “BINGO!” I just made them and they aren’t as good as I remember hers, and mine got more brown on the bottom before lightly browning on top. (I readily admit to being an awful cook, but I keep trying) Any suggestions for fixing that issue? Mine also seem much smaller. How long should I let the dough chill?
I have made these crescent rolls countless times and I have also had an issue with browning on the bottom. I moved my oven shelf up a bit and that solved my problem. I don’t always chill my dough if my kitchen is cool that day. However, I would roll these up and pop in the fridge for a 1/2 hour to firm up the butter.
You can make your rolls larger, just cut into bigger wedges. I have made mine as big as a croissant before and really liked how they turned out. Hope all these suggestions help.
Making these for a tea party. They will go nicely with my favorite jasmine tea.