Mini Pumpkin Cheesecake Crescent Rolls – are crescent rolls filled with pumpkin, cream cheese, sugar and spices. It will only take 20 minutes to prepare this delicious fall pastry, that can be a perfect breakfast, fall snack or a holiday treat for Thanksgiving Day.
4OzCream cheesesoftened (I used regular Philadelphia cream cheese)
3-4tablespoonBrown sugar
Egg yolk
¼teaspoonSalt
1teaspoonCornstarch
½teaspoonGround cinnamon
½teaspoonPumpkin spice
⅓cupPumpkin pureeI used canned pumpkin puree, not pumpkin pie filling
2tubes of 8 Oz refrigerated crescent roll dough
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350F and line baking sheet with parchment paper.
To make pumpkin cheesecake filling – Start by beating softened cream cheese and brown sugar until it gets smooth. Use a bigger dish for it. Then, add egg yolk, salt, cornstarch, pumpkin puree, cinnamon and pumpkin spice and beat some more until it´s well combined.
Next, assemble the rolls - unroll crescent dough, separate triangles and cut each one in half lengthwise using pizza cutter or knife.
After that spread about ½ a spoonful of pumpkin cheesecake filling and roll triangles to get crescent shape, starting with the widest part.
Place them in the baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes or until they become golden brown. When the rolls are baked, take them out of the oven and leave in the baking sheet for a few minutes and then transfer to a serving plate.
Notes
Before baking, crescent rolls can be sprinkled with cinnamon sugar mixture, or powder sugar when they´re done.
You can serve them with whipping cream or ice cream, too.
Make sure the cream cheese is at room temperature.