Cruffins

 

Ya'll know that I live by a KISS philosophy!  Keep It Simple Sweetheart!  Life is complicated so I don't need my food to be complicated too!  This recipe is an adaptation from something I found online, and I am so very pleased at how well it came out on batch #2!

This is the simplest thing and so delicious!  You can play with any flavor that suits you and you'll get a winner each time - I promise!

You'll need:

2 tubes of crescent roll dough (yields 6 cruffins, do a double batch if you need more)

Butter spread of your choosing (I used 2 sticks of butter with 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1/4 cup white sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon - blend room temp butter with other ingredients and set aside.)

Cinnamon Sugar - you can buy it at the grocery or make your own (making your own is much less expensive add 1 cup white sugar to 1 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon and mix well)

Preheat your oven to 350* and prepare muffin pans with liners or baking spray.  I used jumbo muffin pans for this recipe.

Sprinkle your work surface with a 1/3 cup of cinnamon sugar and unroll one tube of crescent roll dough on top the sugar mix.  Leave the entire dough intact as a rectangle.

Spread your butter mixture over the dough, then add another 1/4 cup of cinnamon sugar sprinkled on top.  Top this with the second tube of crescent dough.

Use a pizza cutter to slice these layers on the long bias into 6 strips.  Gently roll the strips then dip each one top and bottom in the remaining cinnamon sugar. Place each crufffin into the muffin tin.  Don't worry about all the dough seams being sealed, they will bake together and it's one less worry,

Bake for 20 minutes and remove from muffin tin as soon as you can handle them.

Serve with any butter of your choosing!  These are delicious with honey butter, strawberry butter of just plain butter.  I like to spoil my guests with flavored butter, but you do what works for you!

This recipe stole the show at a brunch recently, all other muffins were ignored for these amazing beauties.  Switch the filling to suit you.  I am trying a sweet potato filling with butter, brown sugar and cinnamon.  I'm sure this will be a Thanksgiving hit and you have plenty of time to practice and sample before the big day!

Let your imagination run with this one, pumpkin pie cruffins, blueberry lemon cruffins, apple pecan cruffins.... the possibilities are endless!

Yum and Enjoy!