Homemade Crescent Rolls Recipe + Appetizer

I am the queen of procrastination. I generally wait till I have the least amount of time left to do something, and then I start it. In high school, I goofed off a lot my senior year, and ended up not doing any of my "prep" work for my term paper. Yeah, you know the thing that is like the majority of the senior's grade, determines if they graduation blah blah blah. That paper. Literally did not one lick of it. I started my paper the day of, and finished it with 5 min to spare turning it in.

Was it my best work? Hell no. I made a C if I remember correctly. But I didn't need a good grade to pass, as I had a good GPA and what not, I just had to pass English. I think back now and know I could have easily gotten an A on that paper had I just applied myself a bit. Oh well.

So when I forgot that I had to bring an appetizer to this party I was attending, til the day before, it was not really anything new. Except- I am BROKE. So I could not afford to go buy anything to make anything.

So panic set in. And I started asking and looking.

And I found THIS RECIPE for homemade crescent rolls. I used it. However, I did not use them as the regular crescent roll shape. I rolled out the dough into a long rectangle, used my filling, and rolled up and sliced.

Here's the Appetizer I made:

Here's what I did:

1. Make the dough. Its a very sticky dough. So you might need a little bit more flour to make it come together because the directions are very VAGUE. It says it will be smooth and soft- it was smooth soft AND STICKY. But i went with it. Wrong. I should have added a little more flour, kneaded it a bit longer, and make it smoother and not as sticky. I did that when it finished rising.

2. Rolled it out to triangle shape- then used an ENTIRE tub of Velata Smoked Gouda cheese. Holy cow this stuff is awesome ( and its gluten free and 70 calories for 2 tablespoons which makes me happy) and heated it up. Then I spread it all over the dough.

3. I then needed something else to fill it with. I had one small can of spinach. I opened it, drained it, squeezed out the excess moisture ( very important) and then put it on top of the cheese.

4. I rolled it up like a jelly roll, then cut in slices and put on a greased pan.

5. I baked them according to the recipe for the crescent rolls,adding 3 minutes onto the time since some of them were kinda huge.

6. Once the cooled slightly, I used another almost 3/4 of a tub of the cheese mixed with a little sea salt and garlic powder to top them. 

I tried to go off her recipe stats for how much calories etc but its kinda hard when you modify the recipe. She has 93 calories but I dont use all the butter she incorporates into her rolls, or didnt for this recipe. So i went with around 133 calories per roll ( average size) for the cheese and the spinach and the bread. It might be a little less or a few calories more , especially since they are all different in size. But no butter was used as a filling OR a topper. I used some more of the cheese mixture.

Anyways- they came out great. Big hit. Very moist. Not dry at all. I am going to try this recipe again for the actual crescent roll soon.

xoxo
Steph