Cinnamon Glazed Chocolate Crescent Rolls
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These soft and flakey Cinnamon Glazed Chocolate Crescent Rolls could not be easier to make. Warm from the oven with a cinnamon sugar glazed from baking, these have chocolate on the inside and are the perfect little breakfast pastry with that morning cup of coffee or tea.
Refrigerated crescent dough gets stuffed with mini chocolate chips, brushed with browned butter and rolled in cinnamon sugar. Easy peasy right?
Sometimes I play that game with myself and open the refrigerator and look around. What could I make with what’s here? I mean they have cooking shows on that, right?
Well I often times do it and that’s how these little Cinnamon Glazed Chocolate Crescent Rolls came to be. These are rather addictive! For these I thought, to add another flavor dimension, I’d brown the butter. I love the slightly nutty flavor it adds, but feel free to just use melted butter.
I know time can be hard pressed with kids, helping your spouse, or let alone yourself, get up and out the door everyday. With the holidays there’s always that added bit of stress and that’s where you need these.
I love how the outside cinnamon sugar glazes and adds a little crunch to the exterior when biting into each one. I mention each one, because I didn’t stop at just one… or two actually. Taste testing purposes.
Anyways, these are super quick, super easy to make and just the perfect sweet nibble as a breakfast or afternoon snack. Enjoy! If you like this you might also enjoy my Chocolate Caramel Butter Bars or Slab Pecan Bars too.
Cinnamon Glazed Chocolate Crescent Rolls
Ingredients
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F. In a small sauté pan add butter and cook on low until it starts to brown. Remove from heat and allow to cool. In a small bowl whisk together the sugar and cinnamon. Set aside.
- On a clean surface unroll dough and separate into 8 triangles. On the wide end of the triangle of dough place one tablespoon of the chocolate chips (See picture above). Starting at wide end, roll dough over chocolate and to the tip of dough. Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Repeat with remaining crescent dough and chocolate chips.
- Brush each crescent with browned butter and using one hand roll in cinnamon sugar mixture. Put back on baking sheet and curve slightly to make crescent shape. Repeat with remaining and bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown.
Notes
Nutrition
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I could not be trusted near a plate of these sweets! Too adorable and so addictive! Win-Win!!
Thanks Annie, I completely agree and had to restrain myself. 🙂
Breakfast, snack, dessert… heck let’s add lunch and dinner in these too– I’d eat these anywhere, anytime! They look AMAZING!
I like your thinking Karly, thanks!
I was already drooling when I saw the picture, well, still drooling while writing this comment 🙂 What a lovely recipe and so easy to make! Love the chocolate centre and crunchy cinnamon glaze – why can’t I have one right now with my cup of tea? I think I am already addicted without even having tried one of them 😉 Delicious!
Haha! Thanks Miriam, these little guys are so easy to make too, which is great because you won’t have to wait too long to enjoy. 🙂
I’m always playing that game Kevin! We all need an easy little treat like this in our repertoire!! Perfect treat with coffee in the morning or as a little dessert after dinner. Hope your week is going great!
Although today I looked and there’s not much, so off to the market! Thanks Mary Ann, these are super easy and so good. 🙂
I always play the “what can I make” game with my refrigerator and for some reason I always end up making the same exact thing… which is embarrassingly boring so I’m not going to tell you what it is! 😉 Anyways, I am drooling like a rabid dog over these rolls, Kevin!!! Seriously, I want to shrink myself and live in the center of these. I LOVE that you brushed these bad boys with browned butter and then rolled them in cinnamon sugar. I am doing these. Immediately. And then I’m eating them all and not sharing with Boy. Done and Done. PINNED! Cheers!
I want pictures Chey! LOL
I loved these fresh from the oven, but there were 2 left later in the day and I snacked on them too! 🙂 So easy!
Hey Kevin! Crescent rolls are such a handy thing to have (just like Jiffy mix and puff pastry)! I don’t buy many prepared items, but there are a few that I buy just because they have so many uses. I’m not one to eat a big breakfast so these are perfect. Good call for the busy holidays coming up!
YES, I love me some JIFFY mix, too! I buy it in 6-packs, haha. I’ve been thinking lately of quick and easy items to make for the holidays and share. This was one idea after looking at some photos of Dave and I in the city of Versailles at a off the main track pastry shop. Nothing compares to handmade, buttered layered pastry dough, but this did the trick!
I LOVE these! We’re visiting my daughter and grandkids this weekend and this is the perfect dessert that everyone can help make. Thanks again Kevin for coming to the rescue and always the best recipes. 😉
The pleasure is all mine Sally, have a wonderful time with the family.
I love playing that ‘what can I make’ game! Usually then turns into tacos around here. Believe it or not, we managed to work some leftover black eyed peas into a taco form the other night. Epic! Speaking of epic, these crescent rolls sound like they’re right up my alley! Pass me one…with extra cinnamon please!
Now the black eyed peas taco sound most interesting. Take any photos? Gotta love a warm from the oven pastry. 🙂
Wow, Kevin! Can’t get any easier than that! And as soon as I saw ‘brown butter’ I was in! That stuff just smells and tastes amaaaazing! I’m always opening up my fridge and looking at what’s in there. I don’t know why. I mean, I’m sure I know what’s there. I just can’t help myself. So, I completely understand, my friend 😉 These rolls are definitely making an appearance soon. Pinned, of course 🙂 Thanks for another great one!
Thanks Dawn. It’s amazing to me the transformative nature of butter when browned and the aroma! Wow.
These looks so easy and super satisfying! I would win best mom in the world by making these for an after school snack.
I’d come over after school too if I knew they’d be waiting. Ha! Thanks Karen.