Creamy Fruit Brunch Crescents

 After making kolaches the other day, I had some of the delicious fruit and cream cheese fillings left over. They made the best filled crescent rolls!

These cream cheese and fruit crescents would be perfect to serve at an Easter or Mother's Day brunch.

Creamy Fruit Brunch Crescents

Ingredients:

• 1 can (8 count) crescent rolls
• fillings of choice, such as canned pie filling, cream cheese filling (below), apricot filling (below)
• 1 egg (for egg wash, optional)
• sparkling sugar (optional)

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper. If using egg wash, lightly whisk egg with 2 teaspoons water in a small bowl. Set aside.

2. Unroll crescents and place four on each lined cookie sheet. Spread about a teaspoon of cream cheese filling on each crescent. Spread about a teaspoon of fruit filling on each crescent, keeping most of it on the wider section.


3. Roll as for crescent rolls, ending with the small point of dough under the roll. Shape roll into rounded crescent shape. Brush lightly with egg wash and sprinkle with sparkling sugar, if desired. Bake until golden brown. Remove cookie sheet from oven and slide parchment holding rolls onto wire rack. Let cool. Refrigerate leftovers. 

Notes:  You can make the fillings a day or two ahead of time and refrigerate. I used canned cherry pie filling for the cherry crescents, and ran it through my food processor for a few seconds to chop up the cherries so there wouldn't be big lumps in the crescent dough. All of the fillings make more than enough for just 8 crescent rolls. You could easily make a double or triple batch of rolls.

Apricot Filling
6 oz. dried apricots
3/4 cup orange juice
6 tablespoons sugar
1 and 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice

In small covered saucepan, simmer apricots in orange juice until tender, 35 to 45 minutes. Drain apricots; discard juice. Pour apricots, sugar, and lemon juice into food processor and blend until fairly smooth and of desired consistency. Refrigerate leftovers. Keeps for several days.

Cream Cheese Filling

4 oz. cream cheese, softened

3 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon sugar

1 large egg yolk

1/2 teaspoon vanilla OR 1 teaspoon lemon zest

Mix all ingredients until smooth and well-combined. Refrigerate leftovers.

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