Crescent Roll Christmas Tree Dessert
This super easy Crescent Roll Christmas tree dessert uses store bought dough to make the crescent roll bites. They're filled with homemade cranberry jam and "glued" with Nutella to form the Christmas tree.
Servings: balls
Ingredients
- 2 packages 8 pieces each crescent roll dough
- 2/3 Cup Cranberry jam homemade or store bought
- 1 cup Nutella
- 1/8 Cup powdered sugar
Instructions
- Start by preparing two sheet pans with parchment paper and pre-heating your oven to 350 F.
- Spread your crescent roll dough on a clean surface. Following the dotted lines, separate the dough and form a small ball with each, you should have 16 small balls. Using a knife, cut each ball in 2, and re-make each of them using the palm of your hands, making sure no crevices or folds are seen. You should have 32 smooth small dough balls.2 packages 8 pieces each crescent roll dough
- Place the crescent balls in your prepared baking sheet, leaving them 1.5 inches apart. Bake for 8 minutes, or until golden brown. Let them cool completely before filling them.
- Fill a piping bag fitting with a round tip with cranberry jam, and a second one with Nutella. You can also fill a ziplock bag, cut a corner and use it instead! Using the back of a wooden spoon or anything similar, make a hole on the bottom of the cooled balls, then fill them with cranberry jam.2/3 Cup (66.7 g) Cranberry jam, 1 cup (300 g) Nutella
- Grab the serving plate you'll be using. Spread Nutella on the bottom of 10-12 balls and "stick" them to the plate, making sure they're forming a circle for the base shape of a Christmas tree. Keep piling the balls and piping Nutella between each of them, sticking them together, making a tree shape along the way.
- Use a dusting wand or a fine-mesh sieve to dust powdered sugar on top of your Christmas dessert and serve immediately1/8 Cup (15 g) powdered sugar
Notes
- Use Green sprinkles to cover your tree! you can pipe whipped cream around to help sprinkles stick
- Fill your crescent balls with Peanut butter instead. After all, who doesn't like peanut butter and chocolate?
- You can use a hand mixer to whip some heavy cream with sugar and fill these beauties instead of jam
- You can also make your favorite dessert dip recipe or any festive dip and either fill them with it or use it instead of Nutella
