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Crescent Roll Beignets

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Crescent Roll Beignets are mouth-watering pillows of fried dough, smothered in cinnamon sugar. Breakfast doesn’t get any simpler or better!

I have stooped to new lows with these Crescent Roll Beignets. Or, maybe reached new highs…. I guess that depends on how you look at it. Beignets for dummies or genius idea. I’ll let you decide.

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Crescent Roll Beignets an easy 3 ingredient homemade recipe

I’ve been wanting to make Beignets for a long time now. You know, the fluffy, fried dough that covered in powdered sugar famous in New Orleans. It’s the NOLA version of a doughnut and I just can’t get enough of them.

Crescent Roll Beignets

My plans were to make some with my favorite cinnamon roll dough. But that never happened. I had pizza dough from cheese bread I had made for the boys. I tried it, but because there is very little oil in the pizza dough, it didn’t brown like I had hoped. With a pot of hot oil, my brain quickly went into over-drive thinking of options.

I cook crescent rolls about twice a week for the boys for breakfast. Sometimes I bake them plain and sometimes I fill them with chocolate chips, or leftover holiday chocolate bars. The crescent rolls were my only option so I gave it a try! They were a huge hit, even with my very-picky 13-year-old.

For the Crescent Roll Beignets, I simply fried the crescent roll dough, then rolled them in a cinnamon sugar mixture.

Crescent Roll Beignets

Crescent Roll Beignets are mouth-watering pillows of fried dough, smothered in cinnamon sugar. Breakfast doesn't get any simpler or better!
Author: Paula
4.72 from 25 votes
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Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 6 minutes
Total Time: 11 minutes
Servings: 16 servings

Ingredients

  • 1 can crescent rolls
  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon

Instructions

  • Fill a pan with vegetable or canola oil so that it's at least 2 inches deep.
  • Heat oil to 350 degrees F.
  • Open and unroll dough.
  • Pull each crescent roll triangle apart at the perforated line.
  • Cut each large triangle into 2 smaller equal-sized triangles, so that you'll have 16 triangles.
  • Spread paper towels on a tray. You will drain the beignets on this after removing from oil.
  • Place 3 to 4 triangles of dough in hot oil. Don't crowd the pan.
  • Cook 2 to 3 minutes or until golden brown on first side, Flip to second side and cook another 2 to 3 minutes or until second side is golden brown.
  • Remove from oil with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels 10 to 20 seconds.
  • Immediately roll in cinnamon sugar mixture.
  • Serve hot.
  • For cinnamon sugar, stir together the 1/4 cup granulated sugar and the 1 tablespoon cinnamon.
  • Optional: dust with powered sugar
  • Optional: serve with chocolate sauce for dipping.

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Nutrition

Calories: 63kcal | Carbohydrates: 9g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 111mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 5g | Calcium: 5mg | Iron: 1mg
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Comments

  1. Lisa says

    10.19.22 at 6:44 pm

    5 stars
    Excellent

    Reply
  2. Wendy says

    04.11.22 at 3:59 pm

    5 stars
    I made these… WOW! These were incredible! So easy and delicious. I served them with a dusting of powdered sugar and different shipping sauces. Warm chocolate, warm Nutella and some of my homemade jams. ( strawberry and raspberry) They were all amazing! Thank you!

    Reply
    • Paula says

      04.12.22 at 11:34 am

      Thank you so much! I’m happy you enjoyed them!

      Reply
  3. Natalie says

    04.02.22 at 4:29 pm

    Can i put them in my air fryer?

    Reply
    • Paula says

      04.05.22 at 9:02 am

      I haven’t tried them in an air fryer. They would probably work, just not 100% certain.

      Reply
  4. Diane says

    01.21.22 at 10:25 am

    5 stars
    OH MY GOODNESS THESE COULD BE A PROBLEM! Wow, how easy and delicious. I used peanut oil so that they wouldn’t absorb too much oil. I used to fry biscuits for my kids all the time but I don’t know why I never thought to use crescent dough. PERFECT ! Thanks for posting.

    Reply
    • Paula says

      01.21.22 at 2:38 pm

      My boys love the fried biscuits too! Happy you liked it!

      Reply
  5. Catherine says

    04.25.21 at 8:44 pm

    Do you think putting chocolate chips inside would work to make chocolate beignets. I haven’t tried this recipe yet, the other easy beignet recipes used pillsbury pizza dough or grands biscuits. Using croissant dough seems to make more sense. I will try it!

    Reply
  6. RaccoonMom says

    09.20.20 at 12:53 am

    5 stars
    Yummmmm! And way too easy. This is not going to be a good thing for my hips. Cuz daymn.

    Reply
    • Paula says

      09.24.20 at 2:10 pm

      lol!!! I understand completely!

      Reply
  7. Ham says

    04.15.20 at 11:08 pm

    5 stars
    Good recipe, I would recommend! I accidentally exploded a can of crescent rolls I wasn’t gonna use, so used this recipe and it turned out great!

    Reply
  8. Jennifer says

    04.12.20 at 6:14 pm

    5 stars
    These were soo good!! Better than the original beignets!! I dipped mine in warm heated Nutella!

    Reply
  9. Amanda says

    02.14.18 at 9:10 am

    3 stars
    This are more like sopapillas than beignets

    Reply
  10. Stephanie M Beard says

    01.16.18 at 6:14 pm

    5 stars
    These are wonderful…better than New Orleans…and so easy
    I use a paper lunch bag to shake the sugar onto the Beignets

    Reply
    • Red says

      04.27.18 at 5:54 pm

      5 stars
      Great idea!! That’s exactly what I’m gonna do! Never would have thought to do that. Thanks so much for sharing.

      Reply
  11. Thomas Coleman says

    09.04.16 at 10:12 am

    Cannot believe how easy this was! Came out absolutely perfect. Thank you for this awesome recipe

    Reply
  12. m.s. says

    08.26.16 at 6:03 pm

    wonder if you could roll a little sweetened cream cheese into these before frying?

    Reply
    • ANNA GHALLAB says

      03.28.20 at 10:02 pm

      I would use it as a dip

      Reply
    • Maribel Marrero says

      06.09.20 at 11:26 am

      Hi M.S. You know, ……. I too was thinking the exact same thing, BUT from what I know/have heard, most of these recipes w cream cheese inside — it’s best to FREEZE then first prior to frying. This way they come out PERFECT !! and filling doesn’t become a HUGE melted mess – just saying. I think ….. it’s definitely worth trying at least a few to see how they turn out. Good Luck with this “experiment”.

      Reply

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