Cranberry Crescent Rolls – Beauty Through Imperfection

I have a very special Thanksgiving recipe to share with you today: Cranberry Crescent Rolls! I’ve been making these buns every year since I was a little girl! They’re a huge crowd puller and super easy to do.

I started cooking these when I was 8 years old and I loved that I could contribute to the big Thanksgiving Day and that it was something I could do “all by myself”. As a kid, I felt so important to contribute my own recipe to the festival and make it one of the most popular side dishes!

Cranberry Crescent Rolls - Great kid-friendly Thanksgiving recipe or Christmas recipe.  This is so easy that even preschoolers can do it and always be a crowd puller!

I think it’s great that I can involve my five-year-old in preparing for Thanksgiving these days. He can pull it off all by himself, except to use the oven.

Even now I enjoy doing these because they are so simple and everyone loves them! They are great as a simple starter or as a side dish during a meal. We usually use them both ways because people don’t stop sneaking them before we sit down to eat!

They’re also a great way to use up any leftover cranberry sauce!

What you need:

  • Packets of uncooked croissants (like this one)
  • A can of jellied cranberry sauce

Cranberry Crescent Rolls - Great kid-friendly Thanksgiving recipe or Christmas recipe.  This is so easy that even preschoolers can do it and always be a crowd puller!

I’ve found that a 14-ounce can of cranberry sauce is good for up to 45 croissants.

Lay the crescents flat and ladle a spoonful of cranberry sauce onto the broad end of each crescent.

Then roll them up and bake them according to the directions in the package.

Cranberry Crescent Rolls - Great kid-friendly Thanksgiving recipe or Christmas recipe.  This is so easy that even preschoolers can do it and always be a crowd puller!

They’re best served warm, but my family is known for being cold too.

Yield: 24

Cranberry Rolls

Cranberry Rolls

Preparation time
10 mins

cooking time
15 minutes

total time
25 minutes

ingredients

  • 2 packs of croissants

  • Can of jellied cranberry sauce

manual

    1. Lay the crescents flat and ladle a spoonful of cranberry sauce onto the broad end of each crescent.
    2. Then roll them up and bake them according to the directions in the package.

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Super easy right? Really fun to involve a younger child in the Thanksgiving prep or just cook it yourself and ask your whole family why they never thought of putting cranberry sauce in croissants!

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