🍏🥐 Apple Pie Crescents
A super quick dessert that tastes like mini apple pies but uses crescent roll dough. Perfect when you want something sweet in 20 minutes.
🧾 Ingredients
- 1 can refrigerated crescent roll dough (8 rolls)
- 1 cup apple pie filling (chopped into small pieces)
- 1 tbsp butter (melted)
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- Optional:
- ¼ tsp nutmeg
- Powdered sugar glaze (½ cup powdered sugar + 1–2 tsp milk)
👩🍳 Instructions
- Preheat oven
Set oven to 190°C (375°F) and line a baking tray with parchment paper. - Prepare the filling
Chop the apple pie filling pieces smaller. Mix with brown sugar and cinnamon. - Roll the dough
Unroll crescent dough and separate into triangles. - Add filling
Place 1–2 tablespoons apple filling on the wide end of each triangle. - Roll them up
Carefully roll from the wide end to the tip to form crescent shapes. - Brush with butter
Brush the tops with melted butter and sprinkle a little extra cinnamon sugar if desired. - Bake
Bake for 10–13 minutes until golden brown. - Optional glaze
Drizzle powdered sugar glaze over warm crescents.
🍽️ Serving Ideas
- Serve warm with vanilla ice cream
- Dust with powdered sugar
- Add caramel drizzle for extra indulgence
✅ Tip: If apple pie filling isn’t available, cook 1 diced apple + 1 tbsp sugar + ½ tsp cinnamon + 1 tbsp water in a pan for 5 minutes until soft.
If you want, I can also show you:
- 3-ingredient Apple Pie Crescents (even easier)
- Air fryer Apple Pie Crescents
- Cream cheese apple crescent version (bakery style) 🍏🥐