Pizza Crescent Rolls are a favorite party appetizer. They taste like pepperoni pizza, making them a popular football food too. I do like them as a treat on movie night as well. This will quickly become one of your go to appetizer recipes.
The delicious and flaky crescent dough used to make these is so easy and delicious to use! This is an excellent appetizer whenever you need something easy that guests are sure to love.
Pizza Crescent Rolls
Pepperoni Pizza crescent roll appetizers are easy to make. They only take three ingredients plus sauce to dunk them in. The pizza crust is mimicked by the convenient refrigerated crescent roll dough. Pepperoni and melted cheese are stuffed inside the rolls and warm pizza sauce or marinara sauce on the side is for dunking.
The appetizers only take a few minutes in the oven and prep is simply rolling them up.
How to make Pizza Rolls with Crescents
Here is how to make this quick and easy appetizer complete with recipe pictures to walk you through it.
Start by preheating your oven to 375 degrees F.
Then unroll the refrigerated crescent rolls dough and separate the triangles. Place them on a baking sheet and top with pepperoni and mozzarella cheese sticks. Roll each up.
As you roll them you will find you have room for all of the crescent roll appetizers on one regular sheet pan.
Bake for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown.
Serve warm with marinara as a dipping sauce.
If you prefer these could also be rolled up as pinwheel appetizers too.
Garlic Bread Crust
If you want to kick it up a notch. baste the rolls with melted butter and sprinkle with garlic powder and Parmesan cheese. This creates a garlic bread crust for the appetizers.
Variations on the Recipe
This basic recipe and method can be used to make a wide variety of crescent roll appetizers. Team a deli meat and cheese together and roll them up. Here are a few combos to consider:
- Oven roasted turkey with cheddar cheese
- Ham or corned beef with Swiss cheese
- cooked drained ground sausage or ground beef can be seasoned and spread on the crescent dough then rolled up with cheese
- vegetables such as cooked asparagus spears with Havarti and roasted red peppers with provolone are tasty meatless options
- Other common pizza toppings, like crispy bacon or leftover chicken can also be used in appetizers like this
More Easy Appetizers
These are almost like an Italian version of pigs in a blanket. If you have more crescent roll dough, make some Lil Smokies Pigs in a Blanket too.
Here are a few other good choices for a casual party:
- Cajun Chicken Sandwich Appetizers
- Chili Cheese Dip
- Garlic Parmesan Wings {Air Fryer or Oven}
- Kentucky Hot Brown Appetizer Recipe
- Air Fryer Pierogies (perfect with my easy seasoned sour cream recipe for dipping pierogies in)
Pizza Crescent Rolls Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 tube crescent rolls or 1 roll butter puff pastry
- 8 cheese sticks or 8 slices cheese
- 6 oz pepperoni , sliced
- ¼ cup pizza sauce
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F
- Unroll the crescents and place the pepperoni in two rows along the bottom edge (the shortest side of the triangle).
- Place the cheese stick on the bottom edge and roll the crescent around it.
- Repeat with all crescents and bake for 8-10 minutes.
- Serve while hot along side warmed pizza sauce for dipping.
Notes
Nutrition
sharonczarnik says
can little smokies baked in crescent rolls be reheated in microwave?
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Robin Gagnon says
You can, but texture of the dough wrapper won't be crisp. Some paper towel might help with some of the moisture. They are better reheated in an oven, toaster oven or air fryer.