Nutella crescent rolls recipe
This easy recipe for Nutella crescent rolls has buttery crescent rolls around a luscious chocolate hazelnut center.
Crescent rolls with Nutella and chocolate
I found your new favorite breakfast for Sunday.
A thick layer of Nutella is placed on a flaky crescent roll crust, which is then folded up into a delicious chocolate pastry that tastes like it came from a bakery.
Everyone will be impressed if you serve them hot from the oven to overnight guests or as part of a gourmet weekend breakfast.
Crescents stuffed with homemade Nutella are the best comfort meal for breakfast.
Ingredients for Nutella crescent rolls
There are only two things you need for the recipe.
You can use a simple chocolate spread or chocolate almond butter instead of Nutella to make a dessert that tastes like a bakery chocolate croissant.
Most big supermarket stores, like Target, Wegmans, and Whole Foods, provide unbaked crescent rolls in the refrigerated department.
I like to use Annie’s, Trader Joe’s Organic, or Immaculate Baking because they don’t have hydrogenated oils, artificial flavors, or preservatives. Accidentally vegan brands include Pillsbury and many others.
If you’re feeling ambitious, you could create your own dough instead of buying crescent rolls from the store. To make gluten-free Nutella crescent rolls, use dough that doesn’t have gluten in it.
You can use puff pastry or gluten-free puff pastry instead of the crescent roll dough. Spread Nutella on each sheet of puff pastry to produce Nutella twists or triangles. After that, do what the puff pastry packaging says to do to bake it.
What you need
- 1 can of crescent rolls that have been in the fridge (8 oz)
- 1/3 cup of Nutella or homemade Nutella, and optional chopped hazelnuts, powdered sugar, or melted chocolate chips for decoration. See above for other flavor possibilities.
How to create the recipe for breakfast, lunch, or dessert
I love this Nutella recipe since it’s so easy to create.
And it’s also perfect for people who have an extra package of crescent rolls and want to find new ways to use the dough.
- First, turn the oven on to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Take the crescent dough out of the can and break it along the seams to make triangles. Or, if you’re using dough you created yourself, cut it into thin triangles.
- Put the dough on a baking pan. I suggest putting parchment paper on the tray to make cleaning up afterward easier and less messy.
- Put around two teaspoons of the chocolate hazelnut spread on each croissant.
- To make crescents, roll up the dough from either the broad or thin end.
- Put the recipe in the middle of the oven and bake it for twelve minutes.
- If you choose, you can carefully melt a bowl of chocolate chips while they are baking. Add a teaspoon of oil to the melted chips to make the sauce smoother.
- If you choose, you can drizzle melted chocolate over each Nutella pastry and then sprinkle powdered sugar on top while the Nutella pastries are still warm.
- Eat it hot, then put the leftovers in a container that won’t let air in on the counter. You may take these Nutella rolls to parties or events because they don’t need to be kept cold.
You can serve them for brunch on New Year’s Day, breakfast on Christmas, or dessert on Valentine’s Day. They taste great any time of year and have less than 120 calories per.
How to do it
Set the oven at 350 F. (There is also a way to bake in an air fryer above.) To make triangles, cut the dough at the seams. Put on a baking sheet that has parchment paper on it. Spread about two teaspoons of Nutella on each triangle, then add whatever toppings you choose. Roll into crescents. Bake for 12 minutes or until golden brown. Drizzle melted chocolate and powdered sugar on top if you want. Put leftovers in a container with a lid. You don’t have to put these Nutella crescent rolls in the fridge.
Croissants with Nutella in an air fryer
Here’s how to make the recipe in an air fryer machine if you don’t want to heat up the oven.
As you get the crescent rolls ready, set the air fryer to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Put the rolls in the basket of the air fryer in a single layer, with room between each roll. If your machine is small, you might have to do this in two parts.
Cook for five minutes or until golden brown.
Ideas for tasty flavors
- Put a few banana slices or one little piece of banana lengthwise at the broadest portion of the crescent dough. This is called banana cinnamon. Roll it up and bake it. Add cinnamon sugar to the chocolate banana crescent rolls while they are still hot.
- Chocolate Strawberry: Mix in finely chopped strawberries with the dough. After baking or frying, add melted chocolate and, if you choose, freeze-dried strawberry powder on top.
- For Nutella pastries that taste like a chocolate cream cheese Danish, put a thin layer of chocolate hazelnut spread on top of a thin layer of cream cheese.
- Peanut Butter Cup: This is one of my favorite kinds. Replace half of the Nutella in the recipe with almond butter or creamy or crunchy peanut butter.
- Double Chocolate Chip: Add regular or small semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips to the crescent roll dough and Nutella.
- S’mores: Before wrapping up, press a few small marshmallows on top of the chocolate layer. You can add crushed graham crackers on top if you want. Hey, Nutella s’mores!
- Raspberry: Spread a thin layer of raspberry jam or fresh mashed raspberries on top of the chocolate dish. It will taste like a Godiva raspberry truffle. You may use this identical idea to make rolls with chocolate, blueberries, cherries, pomegranates, or blackberries.
- Chocolate Coconut: To make your own mini Mounds bar Nutella rings, add a handful of shredded coconut to the dough before wrapping it up.
- Chocolate Orange: Add the zest of one orange to the top of the chocolate hazelnut filling. Add more orange zest to the final rolls as a garnish.
Watch this video that shows you how to make the recipe step by step.