Cherry Cheesecake Crescent Ring
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Craving a quick and easy dessert? This Cherry Cheesecake Crescent Ring recipe uses simple ingredients for a showstopping treat. Perfect for potlucks, summer BBQs, or anytime cravings hit!
Calling all dessert lovers with a sweet tooth and a time crunch! This Cherry Cheesecake Crescent Ring is the perfect solution. It’s incredibly easy to make, requiring minimal ingredients and prep work, yet yields a stunning and flavorful dessert that will impress.
It’s a perfect dessert for any night of the week, delicious to serve at breakfast or brunch, or even dessert for holidays such as Christmas morning. Take this cherry cream cheese crescent ring to any summer cookout or potluck and it will be gone in minutes.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
Cherry Cheesecake Crescent Ring
The recipe combines a creamy cheesecake filling with vibrant cherry pie filling, all wrapped in a delightful flaky crescent dough crust and then topped with a homemade powdered sugar glaze. It’s easy to make with simple ingredients, requires minimal prep work, and comes together in under 30 minutes.
This cherry cheesecake treat is a great alternative to a cherry pie. It tastes somewhere between a cherry turnover and a cherry cheesecake. The creamy, tangy cream cheese brings this recipe to another level of flavor and textures. It’s time to elevate your breakfast or dessert game with this irresistible sweet treat.
How to Store Leftovers
Keep the leftover crescent ring in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to three days.
⏰Time-Saving Tips and Variations
- Instead of vanilla extract, use 1/4-1/2 teaspoon of almond extract in the cream cheese mixture.
- For a richer flavor, use brown sugar instead of white sugar in the cream cheese mixture.
- Try a different fruit pie filling, such as peach, raspberry, blueberry, or strawberry.
- After drizzling the powdered sugar frosting over the crescent ring dessert, top with a few sliced almonds.
- Try using apple pie filling (for this recipe you may need two cans to have enough apples) instead of cherries. Tip: dice the apples smaller so you the pieces aren’t too large to bite into.
Other Easy Recipes Using Crescent Dough
- Pumpkin Pie Crescent Rolls
- White Chocolate and Raspberry Crescents
- Raspberry Cream Danish Braid
- Easy Apple Dumplings
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🥣Equipment
- 14-inch round pizza pan
- medium mixing bowl
- handheld electric mixer
- spatula
📃Ingredients
2 cans (8 ounces each) crescent roll dough
1 package (8 ounces) softened cream cheese (room temperature)
1 can (21-ounces) of Cherry pie filling
½ cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup powdered sugar
1 tablespoon milk
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a round pizza pan (14-inches)with nonstick cooking spray. In a medium bowl, combine cream cheese with sugar and vanilla until fluffy. I use a handheld mixer for this step.
Unroll the crescent dough and separate the triangles. Place triangles overlapping with long pointed ends outward onto the pizza pan, as shown in the picture. There should be a 6-inch circle left in the middle of the pan. Spread cherries over the overlapped areas of the dough (the wider part). Then spread spoonfuls of cream cheese mixture over the cherry filling.
Fold pointed ends of crescents over the filling and pinch into the overlapped dough area to seal. Bake for 18-20 minutes or until golden brown.
Allow to cool for a few minutes before adding the glaze. Mix powdered sugar and milk until glaze is smooth – drizzle over the baked cherry ring.
Cut into slices using a pizza cutter or shape knife and serve warm. Add extra pie filling over the slices, if desired.
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A few of my blogger friends and I are virtually celebrating Brunch together this week. Thanks to our delightful hostess, Christie from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures, for gathering us together this year. Three delicious days of recipes to serve for any breakfast, brunch, or even dinner if you choose.
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- Glazed Chocolate Chip Scones from A Little Fish in the Kitchen
- Melon, Jicama, and Pineapple Salad from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
- Seafood Quiche from Art of Natural Living
- Sourdough Osterbrot from A Day in the Life on the Farm
- 14-inch round pizza pan
- medium mixing bowl
- handheld electric mixer
- spatula
- 2 cans (8 ounces each) crescent roll dough
- 1 can (21 ounces) Cherry Pie Filling
- 1 package (8 ounecs) cream cheese, softened at room temperature
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon milk
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a round pizza pan (14-inches)with nonstick cooking spray.
- In a medium mixing bowl, combine softened cream cheese with sugar and vanilla until fluffy. I use a handheld mixer for this step.
- Unroll the crescent dough and separate the triangles. Place triangles overlapping with long pointed ends outward onto the pizza pan, as shown in the picture in blog post. There should be a 6-inch circle left in the middle of the pan.
- Spread cherries over the overlapped areas of the dough (the wider part).
- Then spread spoonfuls of cream cheese mixture over the cherry filling.
- Fold pointed ends of crescents over the filling and pinch into the overlapped dough area to seal. Bake for 18-20 minutes or until golden brown.
- Allow to cool for a few minutes before adding the glaze. Mix powdered sugar and milk until glaze is smooth – drizzle over the baked cherry ring. Serve warm
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What a great idea. You could also drizzle it with White Glaze and add a bowl of blueberry pie filling in the center for a Memorial Day or 4th of July gathering.
Yes! So many delicious options!
That’s the brightest red cherry filling! It looks so good against the icing!
I’ve always loved cherry crescent rings but I’ve never made one myself…that needs to change!
Oh goodness, I’m buying everything to make this dessert this week!! lol No time to waste!! 🙂 It looks so good.
Crescent rings are so versatile! I love this cherry cheese one. It’s right up my alley with all that cherry goodness and extra topping to dip into. Yum!
Yum! And such a beautiful dessert for a very reasonable amount of work!
I love cherries and my guys love blueberries so I may have to do half and half!