Mini Rolls

These are just in time for holiday entertaining.  They are versatile, simple to make and oh so good.

(2 on the left side of the plate are Cinnamon Minis
The other 4 are Sausage Mini Rolls)

For the Cinnamon Mini Rolls I used:
1 tube of Crescent Creations
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup fine chopped pecans
1 tsp. cinnamon
2 Tbsp. butter, melted
2 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Unroll the crescent onto a sheet of waxed paper/foil/parchment paper lightly sprinkled with flour.  With a knife cut the crescent in half.  On another sheet of waxed paper/foil/parchment paper lightly sprinkled with flour, place one half of the crescent.  Gently rub a light sprinkle of flour on each side.  With a rolling pin, roll out the crescent, keeping it as square as possible, until it's about 1/4" thick.  Brush with melted butter.  Mix brown sugar, pecans and 1 tsp. cinnamon.  Sprinkle over crescent dough.  Carefully roll creating a log.  Cut into slices about 3/4" thick.  Place into muffin tins lined with papers.  Bake 10-12 minutes.  Mix powdered sugar, cinnamon and milk, start with 1 tsp. You want your glaze to be the consistency of cake icing.  You can actually use cake icing for this if you like.  Drizzle over rolls while still hot.

For the Sausage Mini Rolls I used:
1 tube Crescent Creations
1 lb. cooked, crumbled sausage, well drained
Shredded cheese

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Follow the directions above for preparing your crescent.  Brush with melted butter.  Sprinkle with cheese and sausage.  Roll into a log.  Cut into 3/4" slices.  Bake 10-12 minutes.

Both of these are delicious.  You can easily change both recipes.  For the sausage you can change to bacon bits, you can spread with soft spread cheese instead of shredded.  You can spice it up with sauted onions and/or peppers, well drained.  For the Cinnamon Minis you can spread a thin layer of apple sauce or apple butter instead of the butter.  You might want to add some raisins or change the flavor completely by using other spices such as nutmeg, cloves or apple/pumpkin pie spices.