🍎🥐 Apple Pie with Crescent Rolls (Easy Shortcut Dessert)
This is a quick “fake apple pie” made with flaky crescent rolls wrapped around sweet cinnamon apples—crispy outside, gooey inside, and ready in under 30 minutes.
🧾 Ingredients
- 1 can refrigerated crescent roll dough
- 2 medium apples (peeled and thinly sliced or diced)
- 2–3 tbsp butter
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- Pinch of salt
🍯 Optional topping
- Powdered sugar
- Caramel sauce
- Vanilla ice cream
👩🍳 Instructions
1. Cook the apple filling
- Melt butter in a pan over medium heat.
- Add apples, brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt.
- Cook for 5–7 minutes until apples are soft and syrupy.
- Stir in vanilla, then let cool slightly.
2. Assemble crescents
- Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F).
- Separate crescent dough triangles.
- Add 1–2 tbsp apple filling to the wide end of each triangle.
- Roll up tightly like a crescent.
3. Bake
- Place on a lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 10–13 minutes, or until golden brown and flaky.
4. Finish
- Optional: brush with melted butter and sprinkle a little cinnamon sugar.
- Dust with powdered sugar or drizzle caramel.
🍽️ Serve
- Serve warm with:
- vanilla ice cream 🍦
- whipped cream
- caramel drizzle 🍯
🔥 Tips
- Don’t overfill or they may leak while baking.
- Granny Smith apples give a nice tart contrast to the sweet filling.
- Let filling cool slightly so dough doesn’t get soggy.
If you want, I can also make a cream cheese apple pie crescent version, a pull-apart apple pie crescent bake, or a mini apple dumpling version with caramel sauce.
