Sausage Crescent Bites appetizers are one of the easiest sausage appetizer recipes you will ever make. You can make a huge tray of these bite size appetizers in 30 minutes or less!
A bowl of simple and delicious filling ingredients and a package of crescent rolls is all you need.
Now that Christmas is over it is time to celebrate a Happy New Year!
Party Appetizer recipes
Sausage Crescent Bites appetizers make the best party appetizers. Bite-size bundles of crescent roll dough filled with a seasoned ground sausage filling are the perfect party finger food no matter what you are celebrating.
Party finger food appetizer recipes like Sausage Crescent Bites are perfect when you need to serve guests an easy to make and serve appetizer during New Year's Eve celebrations, dinner parties, birthday parties or even hosting a game day party to cheer on your favorite team.
How Do you Make Sausage Crescent Bites?
Sausage appetizer recipes are so easy to make.
All you need is some browned ground sausage and a few other filling ingredients.
Crescent Roll dough can be used to make so many different kinds of party finger food appetizers.
You could use so many different kinds of filling to come up with many different flavored holiday appetizer bites.
Crescent Roll Appetizer recipes
Last week I shared this easy 2 ingredients Cranberry Goat Cheese Crescent Bites recipe.
I was blown away by how easy it is to make and how good it tastes.
It is a perfect holiday appetizer recipe.
Crescent Rolls can be used to make the best party appetizers.
After making the Cranberry Goat Cheese Crescent Bites I decided to see if I could come up with another easy appetizer recipe using crescent rolls.
You can never have enough party appetizer recipes!
Sausage appetizer recipes are always a hit with my family.
So I made these Sausage Crescent Bites appetizers.
They go well together and are very easy to make.
You can serve them for any holiday or party you need a delicious appetizer for.
And you can make a lot of bite-size appetizers at once because they are so easy to make.
How To Make Sausage Crescent Bites
Ingredients
- ½ lb ground sausage
- ⅛ to ½ teaspoon onion powder
- salt and pepper to taste
- 4 oz cream cheese, softened
- ¼ cup dried cranberries, finely minced
- 2 to 3 tablespoons pickled jalapeno peppers, minced (I used my homemade Picked Jalapeno Peppers)
- 2 cans of Crescent Rolls
Directions
- Brown the sausage in a large skillet breaking it up into small pieces. As the ground sausage cooks add the onion powder, salt, and pepper. Once all the sausage is no longer pink and is cooked through drain the cooked ground sausage well in a colander. Set aside to cool.
- While the sausage is cooling preheat the oven to 375 F. degrees and prepare the crescent roll dough.
- Prepare a large cookie sheet or two 9x13 inch baking sheets by lining with parchment paper.
- For each can of Crescent rolls cut two pieces of parchment paper that are about 12 by 16 inches long.
- For each can lay one piece of parchment paper down on the counter or a cutting board.
- Open the crescent roll packaging and place the starting end of the crescent roll dough two inched from one edge of the piece of parchment paper.
Carefully, without splitting the perforated edges of the crescent roll dough unroll the crescent roll onto the parchment paper.
If any of the individual crescent rolls have separated gently pull the perforated edges back together. - Pinch the seams of the perforated edges of each crescent roll together sealing the dough together. Tap each seam with your finger to smooth out the edges.
- Place one of the other pieces of parchment paper over the top of the crescent roll dough and rub your hand over it to smooth it out.
- With a rolling pin roll the dough into a 12 x 8-inch rectangle. Flip the parchment covered crescent dough over without disturbing the parchment paper and gently roll the rolling pin over the dough to smooth the opposite side of the dough.
- Gently peel the top layer of parchment paper off and pinch together any seams that have not sealed together.
- Place the parchment paper back over the dough. Slide the dough onto a cookie sheet and chill in the refrigerator 10 minutes. Repeat with the other roll of Crescent rolls.
- After about ten minutes remove one baking sheet of crescent dough from the refrigerator, place it on your work surface and peel the top layer of parchment paper off.
- Trim the edges with a sharp knife so that they are even.
- With a sharp knife, cut into 6 rows by 4 rows to make 24 squares. Set aside.
Prepare the Sausage Crescent Bites filling
- Place the cream cheese, minced dried cranberries and roughly chopped pickled jalapeno peppers into a small mixing bowl.
Mix until combined. - Using a teaspoon measuring spoon scoop the filling up and place a scant teaspoon of filling in the center of each square of crescent roll dough.
- Gently pick up a square of crescent dough trying not to stretch the dough and bring two opposite corners together.
- Pinch the dough together and twist so it sticks together.
- Place the filled sausage crescent bite on the lined baking sheet. Repeat with all of the squares of crescent dough leaving about 2 inches between each appetizer on the baking sheet.
- Once the baking sheet is filled or you have made all of the appetizers bake in the preheated oven for 10 to 14 minutes until golden. Repeat with the remaining tray of crescent dough to make the second tray.
- The filling will fill 48 Sausage Crescent Bites.
- If making only 24 appetizers you may divide the filling ingredients in half.
Helpful Products to Make Sausage Crescent Bites
- Large cookie sheet
- Parchment paper
- Mixing bowl
- Appetizer serving tray
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Sausage Crescent Bites Recipe
Sausage Crescent Bites Recipe
Easy Party food appetizer recipe made with Sausage Crescent Bites recipe is an easy party food you can make quickly.Ingredients
- ½ lb ground sausage (cooked and drained)
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground pepper
- 4 oz cream cheese (softened)
- ¼ cup dried cranberries (finely minced)
- 2 tablespoons pickled jalapeno peppers (I used my homemade Picked Jalapeno Peppers)
- 2 cans Pillsbury Crescent Rolls
Instructions
- Brown the sausage in a large skillet breaking it up into small pieces. As the ground sausage cooks add the onion powder, salt, and pepper. Once all the sausage is no longer pink and is cooked through drain the cooked ground sausage well in a colander. Set aside to cool.
- While the sausage is cooling preheat the oven to 375 F. degrees and prepare the crescent roll dough.
- Prepare a large cookie sheet or two 9x13 inch baking sheets by lining with parchment paper.
- Cut four pieces of parchment paper that are about 12 by 16 inches long. Lay one piece of parchment paper down on the counter or a cutting board.
- Open the crescent roll packaging and place the starting end of the crescent roll dough two inched from one edge of one piece of parchment paper.
- Carefully, without splitting the perforated edges of the crescent roll dough unroll the crescent roll onto the parchment paper. If any of the individual crescent rolls have separated gently pull the perforated edges back together.
- Pinch the seams of the perforated edges of each crescent roll together sealing the dough together. Tap each seam with your finger to smooth out the edges.
- Place a piece of parchment paper over the top of the crescent roll dough and rub your hand over it to smooth it out.
- With a rolling pin roll the dough into a 12 x 8-inch rectangle. Flip the parchment covered crescent dough over without disturbing the parchment paper and gently roll the rolling pin over the dough to smooth the opposite side of the dough.
- Gently peel the top layer of parchment paper off and pinch together any seams that have not sealed together.
- Place the parchment paper back over the dough. Slide the dough onto a cookie sheet and chill in the refrigerator 10 minutes. Repeat with the other roll of Crescent rolls.
- After about ten minutes remove one baking sheet of crescent dough from the refrigerator, place it on your work surface and peel the top layer of parchment paper off.
- Trim the edges with a sharp knife so that they are even.
- With a sharp knife, cut into 6 rows by 4 rows to make 24 squares. Set aside.
Make the Sausage Crescent Bites filling
- Place the cream cheese, minced dried cranberries and roughly chopped pickled jalapeno peppers into a small mixing bowl. Mix until combined.
- Using a teaspoon scoop the filling up and place a scant teaspoon of filling in the center of each square of crescent roll dough.
- Gently pick up a square of crescent dough trying not to stretch the dough and bring two opposite corners together.
- Pinch the dough together and twist so it sticks together.
- Place the filled sausage crescent bite on the lined baking sheet. Repeat with all of the squares of crescent dough leaving about 2 inches between each appetizer on the baking sheet.
- Once the baking sheet is filled or you have made all of the appetizers bake in the preheated oven for 10 to 14 minutes until golden. Repeat with the remaining tray of crescent dough to make the second tray.
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Veena Azmanov
I love how simple and easy these are to make. My kids love such bite-size things.
Denise
I love how simple yet tasty these seem to be. Truly I think anything with crescent rolls tastes delicious but I love the sausage combination and your 2 ingredient recipe. Can't wait to try them.
Marisa Franca
This appetizer has me drooling on my keyboard. What a great recipe for whipping up something quick when family or friends stop by. Heck, this would be fantastic on the appetizer tray at a formal affair. How can you possibly go wrong with cream cheese and sausage? Wish I could be doing some quality testing for you right now!!