Make these Honey Butter Crescent Rolls the star of your next dinner. With just four simply ingredients and within 15 minutes time you will have an irresistible side that your friends and family will be going back for seconds and thirds!
If you love Cheddars croissants you are going to love my Honey Butter Crescent Rolls. I was inspired to recreate this recipe after eating at HOPS. It was a local restaurant about 20 years ago in Central Florida. They were known for their honey butter croissants. Every Friday night after the football game my friends and I would charge into HOPS for those croissants (they were free and AMAZING) as well as a bowl of baked potato soup! I know that the waitresses and waiters hated to see us “kids” come in. If only they knew it was the highlight to our week–and brought us so many memories.
Sadly, HOPS closed down, but thankfully Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen opened and kept the honey butter croissants alive. Whenever I’m feeling nostalgic or simply want a delicious bread to go with our meaI will make my Honey Butter Crescent Rolls recipe.
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Ingredients
- Crescent Rolls – I like to use Grands Crescent Rolls found in the refrigerated section.
- Butter – You can use either salted or unsalted butter for this recipe.
- Honey – I like a neutral clove honey; however, any honey will work. Just know that whatever flavor the honey is– is the flavor the crescent rolls will take on.
- Powdered Sugar – A little powdered sugar gives the honey butter that is drizzled on top the finishing touch.
Directions
First, preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Unroll dough, separate into 8 triangles. Roll up loosely on an I greased cookie sheet. Bake for 12-15 minutes.
While crescents bake begin making honey butter. In a small sauce pan, melt salted butter. Then add the honey and powdered sugar. Mix well until incorporated (the sauce will instantly become thicker once the powdered sugar is added), remove from the heat and set to the side.
Once crescents are golden brown remove from the oven.
Using a spatula, lift underneath the crescents to ensure they didn’t stick. Then, the drizzle honey butter sauce on top and enjoy immediately.
Air Fryer Crescent Rolls
If you own an Air Fryer and would rather cook them in the handy countertop appliance you will follow all the same steps up until you are ready to put them in the Air Fryer.
Spray the Air Fryer basket with non-stick spray. Then air fry at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown. Carefully remove them from the Air Fryer (if they bake together carefully cut around them using the spatula) and place them on a serving dish. Then drizzle the warm honey butter on top.
Recipe FAQs
A Crescent roll comes in a tube and is a long flat dough that you have to cut and roll. Where as a croissant roll will come frozen already shaped and all you need to do is let it sit out at room temperature to thaw and proof before baking.
When you melt the butter and mix it with honey you create a sweet honey flavored butter. You can also mix in honey to softened butter to create a honey butter you can spread on a croissant.
Tips & Tricks
- Topping – If you would like less sugar in the honey butter topping you can omit the powdered sugar. However, I feel that the powdered sugar helps thicken up and give an additional layer of sweetness to these rolls.
- Croissants – If you can find frozen croissants you can use those instead of the crescent rolls. Croissants will give you the same delicious tastes and texture that Cheddar’s has.
Things to make with Crescent Rolls
Looking for some side dishes to go with Crescent rolls? Try a few of my favorites.
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Honey Butter Crescent Rolls
Equipment
- 1 Baking Sheet
- 1 Oven
- 1 Sauce Pan
- 1 Silicone Spatula
Ingredients
- 12 ounces Pillsbury Original Crescents
- 2 tablespoons salted butter
- 1 tablespoons honey
- 1 tablespoon powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Unroll dough, separate into 8 triangles. Roll up loosely on an I greased cookie sheet. Bake for 12-15 minutes.
- While crescents bake begin making honey butter. In a small sauce pan, melt salted butter. Then add the honey and powdered sugar. Mix well until incorporated (the sauce will instantly become thicker once the powdered sugar is added), remove from the heat and set to the side.
- Once crescents are golden brown remove from the oven. Using a spatula, lift underneath the crescents to ensure they didn't stick. Then, the drizzle honey butter sauce on top and enjoy immediately.
Notes
- Topping – If you would like less sugar in the honey butter topping you can omit the powdered sugar. However, I feel that the powdered sugar helps thicken up and give an additional layer of sweetness to these rolls.
- Croissants – If you can find frozen croissants you can use those instead of the crescent rolls. Croissants will give you the same delicious tastes and texture that Cheddar’s has.
- Air Fryer Directions – Spray the Air Fryer basket with non-stick spray. Then air fry at 325 degrees Fahrenheit for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown. Carefully remove them from the Air Fryer (if they bake together carefully cut around them using the spatula) and place them on a serving dish. Then drizzle the warm honey butter on top.
elle
I haven’t tried them yet, but is the powdered sugar a must or optional
Katie
Hi Elle, I recommend you use the powdered sugar because this helps it thicken up and gives just a little extra sweetness. You can make it without I just have never tested it that way.
Evan H
These are great! I think that they deserve more hype, I mean 0 ratings!? That doesn’t make since. I will make sure to pin this on Pinterest.
Katie
Hi Evan, thank you so much for your kind words and 5-star review. I’m so happy to read you enjoyed them so much.
Joan Beck
I’ll try this tonight. I really wanted to thank you for the ‘Jump to Recipe’ button lol! There are thousands of sites that I have to wade through the author’s stories about their neighbor’s dog stealing their shoes or whatever, and scroll endlessly it seems to find the recipe. Thanks again for the button that makes my life easier!
Katie
Hi Joan, I hope you enjoy the recipe as much as my family does. I try to make my website as user friendly as possible. Years ago, when blogs were more of a diary it was normal to share your whole life story! It’s changed so much since I started blogging 11 years ago! I’m glad you found it helpful with the button!
Chel
soooo funny! why do all the recipe sites come with the longest story and biggest pictures.. before the actual recipe.
Katie
Chel, because we are human beings and not a robot–we want to share what inspired us to create the recipe or how maybe it’s a family recipe that was passed down from generation to generation. Blogs aka most food websites cost money to run. In order for us to keep our content FREE to the world we have to run ads. We need content (i.e., big beautiful pictures that make your mouth water and information about the recipe) so that users will scroll and pass by the ads so that we can make what is called passive income. In return, allows us to provide ALL the recipes for free, to you and everyone else who wants to look for recipes. 😉 Hope that helps explain the “why”!
chahinez @lifestyleofafoodie
I’m drooling… I will need to make these bad boys ASAP!
Shelley b
I was a waitress at hops for a summer during college and I never minded when high schoolers came in 😉 and ordered something small and 4 plates of the rolls. They were delicious so I understood!
Katie
Ha ha thanks Shelley! Yes–they were so good. Glad I can kind of have a similar fluffy experience in my home now!
Barbara Rosa
To be completely honestly I probably could have ate all 8. >– . . could have *eaten* all 8.
Katie
Oh yeah… I had to practice self restraint! lol
Ellie Wright
I want to try the Easy Three-Ingredient Jalapeño Crescents
DJ
I would love to try the Apple Pie Crescents.
Leigh Anne Borders
I would make the bacon cheddar pinwheels. My boys would love those!