Emily Vaartstra | Crumbs
Cheese vs. Caramel filled crescent rolls
Emily Vaartstra | Crumbs
It’s the best snack food face-off of all time—cheese (the appetizer) versus caramel (the dessert). This face-off takes one simple recipe and turns it into two delicious snacks that have a gooey center, flaky buttery dough and powerful flavors.
This recipe has minimal ingredients and quick to make. The garlic bread-like cheese-stuffed rolls make for a mouth-watering appetizer and the sticky snicker doodle-like caramel-filled rolls are an irresistible dessert. Now it is up to you to decide which one wins the gooey face-off.
Ingredients
Cheese filled:
- 1 container of Pillsbury crescent roll dough
- shredded mozzarella or cheddar cheese
- 1/3 cup parmesan cheese
- 1 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1 tablespoon butter, melted
Caramel filled:
- 1 container of Pillsbury crescent roll dough
- 8 caramels, unwrapped
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon butter, melted
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
- Separate the dough on a baking sheet.
- Add caramel or a pinch of cheese in the center of the dough.
- Wrap the dough tightly and roll the dough all the way up utill it looks like a wrapped, oddly-shaped ball. (Repeat this until the dough is finished).
- Melt the butter and coat over each roll with a cooking brush.
- For caramel filling: mix sugar and cinnamon in a bowl. Coat all the caramel rolls with the cinnamon sugar and place back on the baking sheet.
- For cheese filling: mix parmesan cheese and garlic salt. Coat all the cheese rolls with the parmesan mixture and place back on the baking sheet.
- Bake them separately for 12 minutes or until they’re golden brown.