Sausage Cream Cheese Croissants

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These sausage cream cheese croissants make a great little breakfast pastry.



Recipe:

• 1 package (16 oz.) Ground Sausage
  
• 1 (8 oz.) Pack Cream Cheese
  
• 2 packs of Refrigerated Crescent Dinner Rolls
  

In a skillet, thoroughly brown and cook up the ground sausage. Once the sausage is brown, add the cream cheese and stir until the cheese and sausage are mixed together well.

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Open up the packs of Crescent Rolls. The rolls will be perforated into 8 triangles. Place two of the triangles together to form a rectangle and mash them together so they stick together. Do this to all the triangles so you have a total of 8 rectangles.

Take the sausage/cream cheese mixture and place it in the middle of each of the rectangles. You will want to leave 1/4 clear on each of the long sides and 1/2 clear on one of the short sides. On the side that doesn't have any clearance, start to roll up the dough. When you are finished rolling, take the 1/2 clearance and mash it down so the roll stays closed, then finish by crimping the sides closed. It will look kind of like an egg roll when you are finished. Repeat with the other rectangles.

Place in oven and bake for about 15 minutes or until golden brown.

Baking Tips:

• If you don't want to make up all the pastries at once, you can store the cooked sausage and cream cheese in the refrigerator for few days. You can roll them in the crescent rolls when you are ready to bake.
  
• You can add less then 8 oz. of cream cheese to the sausage if you like a less cheesy taste.
  
• If you want to make smaller pastries, you can mash all the crescent pieces together, roll it out, and then cut into smaller rectangles.