Easy Chocolate or Hazelnut Crescents - Only 3 Ingredients

I’m probably one of the last people on the planet who hadn’t tried the hazelnut spread with cocoa called ‘nutella,’ …until now that is. I think I was afraid I’d like it so much it would just be too dangerous to bring into the house. But I had some coupons recently while it was on sale and it ended up being free so I couldn’t pass that deal up. Long story short…it’s delicious and now I have a jar of temptation looking me in the eye every single time I open the cabinet!

Backtrack to last month when I happened to catch an episode of The Rachael Ray Show where Rachael and Grant, a member of Rachael’s culinary team, made Grant’s Chocolate Cream Egg Croissants, using chocolate cream Easter eggs. Well, they looked fabulous and I copied the recipe so that I could at some point try it out.

So with all that said, the other day I had a serious sweet tooth going on and there wasn’t anything in the house (I thought,) that would satisfy it but I was too lazy to go to the store, which would have meant putting a bra and shoes on. After wishing I had all the ingredients for that chocolate cream egg croissant, I remembered the nutella. I just so happened to have a can of crescent rolls in the fridge too…and powdered sugar. I also found an almost empty bag of chocolate chips, which I’m glad I held on to for just such an emergency.

Well let me tell you…that sweet tooth got satisfied in about 20 minutes. I will admit that I was pretty pleased with myself and then later googled chocolate crescents and saw there were a million recipes out there, using the same ingredients I did. Oh well, if you haven’t tried them before, they are super easy and delicious using chocolate chips or make a hazelnut flavored crescent using the nutella.

NUTELLA-FILLED CRESCENTS (OR CHOCOLATE-FILLED) –

Prep Time: 5 minutes Cook Time: 15 to 20 minutes Servings: 8

Ingredients:

1 can refrigerated crescent dinner rolls (8 per package)

1/2 cup nutella or chocolate chips

powdered sugar

Directions:

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Separate dough into 8 triangles.

Place 1 tablespoon of nutella or chocolate chips on wide end of each triangle. Roll up each triangle and place on ungreased cookie sheet or baking stone.

Bake at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

(I did experiment with keeping the shape as a crescent and just folding the dough up…they tasted the same of course but the crescents were prettier.)