Sausage and Cheese Crescent Squares (3 Ingredients)
With just 3 ingredients and super quick to prepare, these easy Sausage and Cheese Crescent Squares will be your family's favorite breakfast casserole! Savory sausage and creamy cheese sandwiched between two flaky crusts.
Servings: 12 servings
Calories: 346kcal
Cost: 11
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 16 ounce package (tube) ground breakfast sausage (mild or hot)
- 1 8 ounce block cream cheese
- 2 8 ounce cans refrigerated crescent dinner rolls or dough sheets (I used Pillsbury)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Cook the sausage in a large skillet over medium heat, breaking it up with a spoon or spatula, until browned. Drain in a colander.
- Meanwhile, unroll one can of crescent roll dough and gently press into the bottom of a 13x9-inch baking dish or pan, pinching the perforated edges together.
- Add the cream cheese to the drained sausage in the same skillet. Cook over medium heat just until cream cheese is melted, stirring often.
- Spread the sausage mixture to the edges of the dough. Unroll the second can of crescent roll dough and lay it on top of the sausage mixture, pressing the edges of the top and bottom doughs together to seal it.
- Bake, uncovered, for 20 minutes or until crescent roll dough is golden on top. Cut into squares.
Notes
Shortcuts:
- Refrigerated crescent roll dough means you don't have to make the dough. Just unroll from what I like to call the "whompum" can. (You whomp them on the counter to crack them open!)
- Crescent roll dough actually comes in sheets (still in the refrigerated can). It doesn't have the perforated triangle sections for crescent rolls. This saves a step. Just unroll and you're ready to go! I've only seen the sheets by Pillsbury, though.
- Cook and crumble the sausage ahead of time and freeze until ready to make this recipe. This make ahead step cuts down on prep time.
- Frozen, cooked sausage crumbles can be found in the freezer section for an even faster prep!
Nutrition
Serving: 1square | Calories: 346kcal