This speedy recipe for easy cream cheese coffee cake made with crescent roll dough calls for just five ingredients and is a perfect brunch treat!
You know what I almost always and forever have on hand in my fridge? Besides (natch) bacon?
CRESCENT ROLLS.
Those triangle-shaped pieces of dough in a tube that we all know and love, and while they are all kinds of addictive when you roll them up into the crescent rolls they were born to be, they are also the Secret Ingredient for so many other things (more on that later!).
In this case, we are going take that dough, add a little brown sugar and cream cheese and an egg, and transform it into the sweetest little coffee cake. With nuts if you want them (we want them) but you can leave them out if you don’t!
My favorite kind of nuts…
Siblings. You gotta love ’em. Especially with cocktails.
Meantime make at the coffee cake, this is the perfect little recipe when you want to whip up a sweet weekend treat without spending hours in the kitchen, because it takes about 15 minutes to throw together and another 30 minutes baking itself up.
Here’s how you make easy cream cheese coffee cake with crescent rolls!
Grab that square baking pan that I know you have somewhere, give it a spritz of baking spray and crank up your oven to 350.
Take a package of cream cheese that you have cleverly left out on the counter to soften, pop it in a mixing bowl with 3/4 of a cup of brown sugar, and beat it up until it is smooth.
Next, mix in an egg yolk (save the white for later, and here’s the best way to separate eggs) and now you are ready for the crescent rolls!
Open up the can (remember when you were supposed to whack it on the side of the counter? Those were the days!) and take out the dough. Cut it in half so you have two squares.
Now, press one square into the bottom of the baking dish, spread the cream cheese mixture over it, and gently press the other square on top.
Remember that egg white? Brush the top of your coffee cake with it, and then sprinkle on a little more brown sugar and some chopped walnuts.
Pop it in the oven for a half hour, then bring it out, let it cool a little, and cut it into squares – I usually do 9 squares, but you do you. And there you have it! Coffee cake time!
- OTHER THINGS TO MAKE WITH CRESCENT ROLL DOUGH!
- Crescent Roll Burritos! My favorite way to use up that half jar of leftover salsa in the fridge.
- Baby Pull Apart Cinnamon Rolls! I had you at baby, right?
- Hot Dog Mummies! They’re not just for Halloween – if you skip adding the mustard mummy face, they are really just a hotdog in the world’s best roll!
Crescent rolls, my pals – they never let you down. :)
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Easy Cream Cheese Coffee Cake
Prep Time: 15 minutes- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 9 squares 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegetarian
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This speedy recipe for easy cream cheese coffee cake made with crescent roll dough calls for just five ingredients and is a perfect brunch treat!
Ingredients
- 1 eight ounce can crescent roll dough
- 1 eight ounce package cream cheese, room temperature
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ cup chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 and spray an 8 inch square baking pan with cooking spray.
- Put the cream cheese and ½ cup brown sugar in a mixing bowl and beat it with an electric mixer until smooth. Separate the egg and add the yolk to the cream cheese mixture (save the egg while for later) and beat it in well.
- Open the can of crescent roll dough and cut it in half so you have two squares. Press one of the squares into the bottom of the baking dish.
- Spread the cream cheese mixture over the dough, and then place the other half of the dough on top.
- Brush the top of your coffee cake with the egg white and sprinkle first the nuts and then the rest of the sugar on top.
- Pop it in the oven and bake until golden brown, about 30 minutes. Cool for a little bit and then cut into squares and serve!
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We love this in our house! But I double everything and put it in a 9×13 pan so there is plenty to go around, because it is THAT good and second (and third!) helpings are inevitable. I also do a savory version of this for the 9×9 pan: cook up a pound of your favorite ground sausage along with a package of frozen peppers and onions stir-fry mix. Drain off any fat and then mix with the 8-oz package of softened cream cheese. Put crescent rolls in bottom of pan, spread sausage mix over top, add top crescent rolls, sprinkle liberally with freshly grated parmesan cheese and bake. This makes a good breakfast or supper dish in my house.
Well that sounds like something I need to try out IMMEDIATELY! Aren’t crescent rolls the best? Happy weekend, my friend!
Hello, We do not have tins of crescent roll dough in Australia. Any hint, as to what else can be used. We have frozen sheets of Puff pastry and Shortcrust pasty. Thank you Robin
Hi Robin! You can definitely use puff pastry dough – it will be a little lighter and flakier but that might be even better! I would roll it out a little first to flatten it out. If you try this, can you come back and leave a comment to let us know how it came out? Thank you and happy baking! :)