Quick Cherry Croissant Pies – A 3-Ingredient Dessert Hack

 

 

It's the weekend and you are scrambling for a quick and easy dessert that you can make for the family!  You want it to please, but you really don't want to spend a lot of time making it, after all, it's your weekend also and why should you have to work hard when nobody else is!  You deserve a break just as well as anyone!

Enter the perfect solution!  Croissant Cherry Pies! Only four basic ingredients, and a few minutes are all that is required of you!  I promise!

This simple dessert was always something my family really enjoyed, and to be honest, I didn't mind making. Dessert really doesn't get much easier than this!

 

These tasty little pies are crazy easy to make and ridiculously delicious!  Plus, they are adaptable to a variety of flavors! You can use any kind of pie filling/fruit filling to make them that you have on hand. Don't like cherry pie?  Use apple, or blackberry, blueberry, peach. The sky is really the limit when it comes to these.

I have never tried lemon pie filling/or lemon curd, but I am sure that would also work well. My taste buds are actually tingling just thinking about it! I do so love lemon anything!

Once you have mastered making these, and so long as you keep these few ingredients in the cupboard, you will never be very far away from being able to make a dessert the whole family will love!  Its also a perfectly tasty dessert to throw together when you have unexpected company drop by!

You really can't lose!

 

WHAT YOU NEED TO MAKE CROISSANT CHERRY PIES

I almost always have the ingredients in my cupboard and refrigerator to make these. A few simple ingredients, put together in the most delicious way!

• 1 can refrigerated Croissant/Crescent Roll dough
• 1 tin (21-oz/410-g) cherry pie filling
• 1/2 cup (65g) icing sugar, sifted
• drop almond extract
• 1 TBS milk

 

The most common brand of refrigerated Croissant/Crescent Roll dough available here in North America is the Pillsbury brand, although in some places, you can get a no-name brand or a store brand. All will work well!

In the U.K., use the JusRol refrigerated Croissant dough. 

The North American one will give you 8 pies, and the U.K. one will give you six.  Both are delicious and more than acceptable!

You don't have to use cherry pie filling. You can actually use any kind of pie filling you have on hand or that you enjoy.

I used almond extract with cherry pie filling as the flavors of almond and cherry work very well together. If you are making apple ones or another flavor, you may want to just use vanilla extract.

 

HOW TO MAKE CROISSANT CHERRY PIES

This is such a simple recipe to make. You really can't go wrong. If you are worried about the pie/fruit filling sticking to your muffin tin, just grease the tin really well.

• Preheat the oven to 375*F190*C/ gas mark 5. Spray a 6-cup or 8-cup muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray and set aside.
• Open the croissant dough and separate into triangles.
• Place one triangle into each cup.

• Fill with Cherry Pie filling, then fold the ends over top to cover.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes, until golden brown.
• Let sit in the pan for a few minutes before lifting out to a wire rack to cool completely.
• Whisk together the icing sugar, almond extract and just enough milk to make a drizzle icing.
• Drizzle the icing over the cooled pies. Leave to set, then serve, with or without ice cream.

 

DID YOU KNOW?

You can make this quick and easy dessert with any kind of pie/fruit filling that you want to use or that you love.  I have tried it through the years with many different flavors. Peach is very nice, as are apple and blueberry. The sky is really the limit here when you are planning your dessert. I am a great believer in using what you have and having what you use!

Why not double the recipe and use two different kinds so that your family has a choice!

 

A FEW OTHER IDEAS FOR USING CRESCENT ROLL DOUGH

If you are like me you always have a can of crescent roll dough in the refrigerator. It comes in very handy to make all sorts of things. Here are a few more ideas that you might enjoy!

GARLIC ROLL CUPCAKES - Not all cupcakes have to be sweet ones! These are super easy to make and use only four basic ingredients.  These are tender and flaky and go very well with soups or salads.  This is a great side-roll recipe to have up your sleeve for when you want a bread to go with your meal and you want it NOW! 

QUICK & EASY PEACH DUMPLINGS -  Ridiculously easy peach dumplings that will have your family licking their chops and you scratching your head, and wondering why you have never made them before! These Easy Peach Dumplings are soft and gooey on the bottom, but crispy on top, and taste like peach cobbler. 

 

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Yield: 6 - 8 (depending on where you live)

Author: Marie Rayner

Croissant Cherry Pies

Prep time: 10 MinCook time: 15 MinInactive time: 10 MinTotal time: 35 Min

Individual cherry pies, baked in a muffin tin. Easy peasy lemon squeezy!

Ingredients

• 1 can refrigerated Croissant/Crescent Roll dough
• 1 tin (21-oz/410-g) cherry pie filling
• 1/2 cup (65g) icing sugar, sifted
• drop almond extract
• 1 TBS milk

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 375*F190*C/ gas mark 5. Spray a 6-cup or 8-cup muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray and set aside.
2. Open the croissant dough and separate into triangles.
3. Place one triangle into each cup.
4. Fill with Cherry Pie filling, then fold the ends over top to cover.
5. Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes, until golden brown.
6. Let sit in the pan for a few minutes before lifting out to a wire rack to cool completely.
7. Whisk together the icing sugar, almond extract and just enough milk to make a drizzle icing.
8. Drizzle the icing over the cooled pies. Leave to set, then serve, with or without ice cream.

Notes

Any extra pie filling (if you have any) can be passed at the table.

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