Pull-Apart Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Crescent Christmas Tree
Sweeten the holidays with this easy-yet-special four-ingredient pull-apart. Simply roll sweetened cream cheese and chocolate chips inside pieces of Pillsbury™ crescent dough; form into a festive tree shape, and bake. Sprinkle with additional powdered sugar, and watch it disappear as guests come back for "one more piece" again and again.
Servings 32 Servings
Ingredients
- 2 cans 8 oz each Pillsbury™ refrigerated crescent dinner rolls
- 6 oz from 8-oz package cream cheese, softened
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- ½ cup semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Heat oven to 375°F. Line large cookie sheet with cooking parchment paper. Separate dough into 16 triangles. Use pizza cutter or sharp knife to cut each triangle in half lengthwise to get 32 triangles.
- In medium bowl, mix cream cheese and powdered sugar with spoon until well blended. Spoon a generous teaspoon of the cheese mixture on shortest side of each triangle; add a rounded 1/2 teaspoon chocolate chips.
- Roll up each crescent, starting at shortest side of triangle and rolling to opposite point. Using photo as a guide, place crescents next to each other in tree-shaped pattern on cookie sheet, starting with top and working way to bottom trunk.
- Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until deep golden brown. Sprinkle with additional powdered sugar, if desired.
