crescent ring

An easy crowd-pleasing appetizer or a quick weeknight dinner, this buffalo chicken dip crescent ring is always a winner!

Buffalo Chicken Dip Crescent Ring

tubes (8 ounces each refrigerated crescent roll dough)

celery

½ cup buffalo wing sauce

cream cheese (at room temperature)

For serving: ranch salad dressing

Preheat oven to 375F (190C).

Spray a large baking sheet with cooking spray. Unroll crescent roll dough; separate into 16 triangles. Overlap wide ends of each triangle to form a ring (dough will look like a sun when you’re finished). Lightly press the wide ends together.

In a separate bowl, stir together chicken, celery, and buffalo sauce.

In a small bowl, stir together cream cheese and dry Ranch seasoning powder. If your cream cheese is too cold, you can microwave it for about 15 seconds to soften (which will make it much easier to stir).

Add cream cheese mixture to the chicken mixture and stir until everything is completely combined.

Spoon chicken mixture over wide ends of dough. Fold the points of triangles over filling and tuck under wide ends (the filling will be visible).

Bake for about 20-25 minutes or until golden brown and heated through. Serve with Ranch dressing for dipping, if desired.

This cheesy Tuna Melt Crescent Ring is stuffed with super delicious high quality tuna packed with healthy and flavorful ingredients. Perfect for a party or as an elegant appetizer or meal. Impress your friends deliciously!

Tuna Melt Crescent Ring

olive oil

onion (medium, chopped)

garlic (grated)

celery (chopped)

tomatoes (grape, chopped)

olives (kalamata, chopped)

capers

basil (fresh, chopped)

parsley (fresh, chopped)

tuna (in water, wild selections brand)

black pepper

cheese (gouda

milk (reduced fat, warm (120 to 130 degrees F*))

yeast (dry, fast acting (or one tablespoon))

sugar

olive oil (light)

honey (light)

eggs (small/medium)

flour (approx (2 parts bread flour +

salt

wheat bran (or oat bran, optional)

bread flour

egg (whisked)

yogurt (Greek, reduced fat)

sour cream (light)

dill (fresh, chopped)

lemon juice

lemon zest

Garnish (optional - drizzle of olive oil, red pepper flakes)

Heat the olive oil in a pan. Add the onions and sauté until translucent. Then add the garlic and sauté a few minutes.

Next add the celery and sauté 2 to 3 minutes. Then add tomatoes and sauté until they start to soften.

Add the olives, capers, herbs and stir. Turn off the heat.

Drain tuna meat from the cans very well and break it up.

Add tuna meat to the sautéed mixture. Season well with pepper and salt as per taste and combine the mixture.

HOW TO MAKE TUNA MELT FILLING

Scatter the yeast over warm milk. Then sprinkle sugar on the top. Let it stand for 10 to 15 minutes in a warm dark place until the yeast foams up on the surface.

Then add olive oil, honey, 2 eggs, and about 3½ cups of the flour, salt and mix gently.

When the mixture is loosely combined let it stand for a few minutes to help the flour to absorb the moisture. Then add the bran and mix it in.

Next add another half cup flour or more, making sure to add as needed to make a dough.

Knead it well for about 5 minutes. It is okay if it is a little sticky. It is important to make sure that the dough is not very dense. So try to use as little flour as possible to make this dough.

I use KitchenAid Stand Mixer to make this dough but you can also make it by hand.

Let the dough rise and double in size in a dark warm place. The time required for this rise may vary between 1 to 2 hours or more.

HOW TO MAKE CRESCENT RING DOUGH

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).

After the dough has doubled in size, punch it down to release the air spaces. Divide the dough into 2 portions and let it rest.

On a floured surface, roll out one portion into a 12 inch diameter circle.

Let it rest for a few minutes, as this will help the dough relax and prevents it from springing back in the next step when cutting.

Then using a pizza slicing wheel cut out 12 triangles. If they spring back just make sure to flatten them out.

Line a 16 inch pizza baking pan with parchment paper and place a bowl in the center that has a 5 inch diameter base.

Carefully arrange the triangles forming a ring, with the wide ends of triangles placed around the 5 inch bowl, making sure to overlap the triangles a little.

Once all the triangles are placed around the bowl it should look like a sun with the pointed ends of the triangles toward the outer edges of the pan.

Scatter 1/4th of the shredded cheese all around the bowl and over the wider portion of the triangles, where they overlap.

Then place half the tuna filling mixture over the cheese and all around the bowl.

Cover another 1/4th of the cheese over the tuna filling.

Bring each pointed end of the dough triangle over the filling and tuck it under the wider side of the triangle in the ring. Secure it well.

Repeat the above step all around the ring covering the filling. Remember that some filling will show between the gaps.

Bake for 20 to 25 minutes until the dough is golden brown and baked well.

Repeat the steps with the other half of the dough and filling to make a second Tuna Melt Crescent Ring.

Allow to cool for 5 to 10 minutes before serving.

ASSEMBLY OF TUNA MELT CRESCENT RING

Carefully transfer the crescent ring to a serving platter using the help of a wide and long serving utensil or a flat cake lifter if needed.

Mix all the ingredients for the lemon dill sauce and adjust the seasoning as per taste.

Transfer the dill sauce to a little serving bowl and place it in the center of the ring. Slice and enjoy.

SERVING THE TUNA MELT CRESCENT RING

Cream Cheese Caramel Apple Crescent Ring

containers Pillsbury™ refrigerated crescent dinner rolls

water

Tbsp corn starch

oz cream cheese, (room temperature)

vanilla

brown sugar

Tbsp butter

milk

cinnamon

Tbsp milk

Preheat oven to 375° 

In a medium saucepan over low heat, bring water, cornstarch, sugar, cinnamon and lemon juice to a boil, stirring constantly.

Continue stirring for 3-4 minutes until sauce thickens up.

Once sauce has thickened, add apples, stir and let simmer for 8-10 minutes.

Remove from heat and let cool.

For The Apple Filling

In a medium mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy, about 2-3 minutes.

Add sugar, egg yolk, vanilla, lemon juice and beat for an additional 2 minutes.

For The Cream Cheese Filling

Unroll crescent rolls and separate into precut triangles.

Place triangles on an ungreased baking sheet so that the wider end of the crescent is in the center forming the circle with about a 5 inch opening in the center and the smaller tip of the crescent is on the outside.

*When forming the circle, the wider ends of the crescents will overlap each other. 

Spread cream cheese mixture over the wide part of the crescents.

Spoon apple filling on top of cream cheese mixture.

Fold the small tip of the crescent over and tuck under the wider part to secure forming the ring.

Bake for approximately 20 minutes. Remove from oven, let cool.

Making The Pastry Ring

In a small heavy bottom pan, melt butter over low heat.

Stir in brown sugar and milk.

Bring to a boil over low heat and continue stirring constantly until desired consistency, approximately 8-12 minutes.

Remove from heat and add 1 tsp of vanilla. Stir and let cool for a little bit then drizzle over pastry once pastry has cooled.

For the Caramel Sauce

Using a one cup measuring cup, pour powdered sugar and milk together and stir until combined (might need more milk/sugar as desired).

Drizzle glaze over pastry ring, once pastry has cooled, and cut into desired portions. Enjoy!

Making The Glaze Drizzle

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