This Breakfast Crescent Roll Ring Recipe is delicious, quick and easy. Perfect for busy mornings, holiday brunches, or a quick weekend treat, breakfast crescent rolls are versatile, crowd‑pleasing, and endlessly customizable.
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Why this Breakfast Crescent Ring Recipe is a Keeper
This recipe for homemade breakfast dish is simple, satisfying and completely customizable to fit your taste.
- Easy: Quick 30‑minute make‑up that includes prepping and baking.
- Simple Ingredients: Uses easy ingredients (refrigerated crescent dough, eggs, cheese, bacon).
- Family Favorite: It is fun, festive and so pretty. Makes a beautiful centerpiece for brunch or holiday breakfast
- Versatile: Flexible as you can swap fillings such as vegetables, different meats and cheeses. Make with low-carb, meat free, dairy free, by using alternatives made with your dietary requirements. Not only for breakfast but I make a taco ring recipe and a cheesy chicken one with ground chicken.
Does the Breakfast Crescent Roll Taste Good Cold?
I prefer to reheat my breakfast leftovers, but some people enjoy theirs cold. Crescent rolls are flakier and softer when warm. Once cooled, they firm up and lose some of that buttery tenderness.
Pro Tip for Making Wreath
Arrange crescent triangles with the points facing outward to form a neat circle.
Overlap the wide ends slightly so the wreath holds together when baked.
Use a small bowl in the center of the ring as a guide to keep the circle even.
Crescent Ring Ingredient Notes
You only need a few simple ingredients to make crescent roll breakfast recipes, and several may be around your kitchen already!
Get the full printable recipe with specific measurements and directions in the recipe card below.
- Flaky Crescent Rolls: Use a can of refrigerated crescent roll dough for this easy recipe.
- Cream Cheese: Softened cream cheese is easiest to work with, and it’ll make the eggs super creamy.
- Cheese: The recipe calls for Cooper Cheese, but really you can use whatever cheese you like.
Bacon and Cheese Crescent Roll Ring Variations
Crescent roll ring recipes are so easy to change up. I like to experiment with ingredients to make different varieties.
- Protein Swaps: Use pork sausage, ham, turkey sausage, or plant‑based alternatives. You could even use cooked chicken, like rotisserie chicken, to make chicken crescent ring. Canned chicken will work too.
- Shredded Cheese Options: Cheddar, provolone cheese, mozzarella, pepper jack cheese, or dairy‑free shreds.
- Veggie Add‑Ins: Add spinach, peppers, mushrooms, or onions for extra flavor in your delicious crescent.
- Seasonal Twist: Add cranberries or herbs for holiday flair.
- Taco Ring: To make a taco crescent ring, season beef with taco seasoning, add shredded cheddar cheese, or Colby jack cheese, and add other taco ingredients.
- Other Variations: Try making a ham and cheese crescent ring, crack chicken ring, buffalo chicken crescent ring or spicy Italian crescent ring.
Special Equipment Needed for Crescent Roll Recipe
Although there aren’t any tools needed to make this recipe, a few are useful when it comes to finishing touches and clean up.
- Pastry Brush: Using a pastry brush is helpful for an egg wash for the popular recipe.
- Parchment Paper: Great for easy clean up and helps prevent the dough ring from sticking to the pizza pan.
How to Make a Crescent Ring Breakfast Wreath
This Pillsbury crescent roll breakfast recipes comes together in just 6 quick and easy steps. This cheese crescent ring recipe is so good, it’s a family favorite for Christmas morning.
Get the full printable recipe with specific measurements and directions in the recipe card below.
- Preheat Oven and Prep: Preheat the oven and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Open the package of crescent rolls and separate crescent roll dough triangles.
- Arrange Dough on Pan: On the prepared baking sheet, arrange the crescent rolls dough in the shape of a star to create a ring, keeping the center open. Place one slice of bacon vertically in the middle of each triangle.
- Make Egg Mixture: Beat together the milk and cream cheese. Separate yolk from one egg, and set the egg white aside. Add the yolk, remaining eggs, salt and pepper to the cream cheese mixture and mix well. Add in the green onion and bell pepper.
- Cook Eggs: In a large skillet, melt some butter and cook the egg and cream cheese mixture over medium heat. Remove from heat and spoon over the base of each triangle.
- Add Cheese and Fold: Lay slices of cheese over egg mixture. Fold the tips of the crescents up over the egg and cheese to form a wreath. Tuck under the flaky crescent dough triangle.
- Brush Egg Wash and Bake: Beat the saved egg white, and brush it over the wreath. Bake at 375 degrees until golden brown.
Prep Ahead Suggestions for Crescent Roll Ring Recipe
Get breakfast on the table even faster with a make-ahead steps.
- Ingredients: Cook and cool proteins/veggies the day before.
- Assemble: Assemble wreath up to 6 hours ahead, cover, and refrigerate.
- Top: Brush with egg wash just before baking the beautiful crescent ring.
Alternate Cooking Methods for Bacon and Cheese Crescent Ring
If your oven is occupied with something else, make this recipe another way by using your air fryer for this delicious recipe.
- Air Fryer: Bake smaller wreaths at 325°F for 12–15 minutes.
- Convection Oven: Reduce temp by 25°F for even browning.
- Individual Rolls: Skip the wreath shape and bake filled crescents separately
Store, Reheat and Use Leftover Easy Crescent Roll
- Storing: Cool completely, then wrap tightly in foil or store in an airtight container. Refrigerate up to 3 days.
- Reheating: Warm crescent rolls in the oven at 350°F for 10–12 minutes (best for crispness).
- Microwave: Heat for 30–45 seconds per slice (quick but softer).
- Using Leftovers: Slice into wedges for lunchboxes. Serve with soup or salad for a light dinner.
Common Questions on How to Make this Recipe
Sure! Replace the bacon with your favorite plant based meat or extra veggies.
Sure, but be aware that the texture will change.
Expert Tips for Making Crescent Roll Breakfast Recipe
- Shape It Right: Arrange crescent triangles with points facing outward for a perfect wreath shape.
- Don’t Overfill: Too much filling makes this crescent roll breakfast ring hard to seal and can cause leaks while baking.
- Brush for Shine: Use an egg wash before baking for a glossy, golden finish.
- Garnish for Festivity: Sprinkle fresh herbs like parsley or rosemary after baking for a festive, polished look.
- Serve With: Serve crescent ring slices with Berry Fruit Salad with Honey Lime Dressing, Cinnamon Roll French Toast Bake or Greek Yogurt Parfait.
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Ingredients
- 8 ounces Refrigerated crescent rolls
- 8 slices Hatfield Applewood Smoked Bacon, cooked
- 2 ounces Cream cheese, softened
- ½ cup Half and half
- 4 large Eggs
- ¼ teaspoon Salt
- ¼ teaspoon Pepper
- 2 Tablespoons Green onion, chopped
- 2 Tablespoons Red bell pepper, diced
- 1 Tablespoon Butter
- 4 slices Cooper cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375℉ and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Unroll crescent dough and separate triangles.
- Place the wide ends in a star shape on the prepared baking pan, slightly overlapping so that the center is a circle, like the center of a wreath.
- Arrange one slice of cooked bacon on each triangle.
- In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and half-and-half.
- Separate one egg, and set egg white aside.
- Add the egg yolk, remaining eggs, salt and pepper to cream cheese mixture and mix well.
- Add green onions and bell pepper.
- In a large skillet, melt butter; add egg and cream cheese mixture. Cook and stir over medium heat until just set. Remove from heat and spoon scrambled eggs over the base of the wreath.
- Lay slices of cheese on top of the eggs.
- Fold the spokes of crescent dough over the egg mixture to form a wreath, tucking the ends underneath the wreath.
- Beat reserved egg white and brush over dough.
- Bake for 25-28 minutes or until golden brown.
- If the crescents start to brown too much, cover loosely with aluminum foil.
Christina’s Notes
- Spicy Sausage: Make this Crescent Roll Breakfast ring with ham and cheese, turkey sausage or spicy sausage.
- Top: On top of the casserole use a little salsa for a spicy finish.
- Great Recipe: Make this delicious recipe your favorite breakfast treat by adding gooey cheese it will become your favorite brunch or even holiday recipe.
- Scale the recipe: Simply adjust the serving size in the recipe card and the ingredients will update automatically.
- Make your own All Purpose Seasoning: When a recipe calls for All Purpose Seasoning, you can use my homemade All Purpose Seasoning recipe or substitute salt and pepper to taste.
- Meat doneness: I always use a meat thermometer to test for doneness when cooking meat.
- Use unsalted butter: I use unsalted butter so I can control the salt level in the recipe.
- Preheat the oven: Unless otherwise noted, always preheat your oven before baking.
For more helpful information about this recipe, such as variations, substitutions and other pro-tips, check out the blog post.
Looks amazing! I have a Christmas Breakfast casserole that I like to make, but there’s no saying that I don’t need a Christmas Eve standard, too!
It’s one of my family’s favorites! 🙂 Hope you enjoy it too!