Name: Strawberry Cream Cheese Crescent Rolls
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 16 min
Total time: 26 min
Ingredients: 1 packaged reduced fat pillsbury crescent rolls; 1/4 cup softened light cream cheese; Sliced fresh strawberries; 1.5 Tbsp reduced sugar strawberry jam (melted)

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I love Pillsbury products and thinking of new ways to turn them into guilt free treats. I did a chocolate peanut butter ring that was equally delicious and I thought I would change it up and created this yummy strawberry cream cheese ring. Super easy to make, with just a few ingredients. Makes for a nice 2 Point dessert to pretty up your table.

If you have only ever separated crescent dough into triangles, this is the other thing it does. Press the whole sheet together, spread it with light cream cheese, cover it in sliced fresh strawberries, and roll it into a log. Slice the log, stand the slices up in a circle, and they bake into a ring of strawberry cream cheese crescent rolls in about 26 minutes. Every bite shows its swirl.

baked strawberry cream cheese crescent ring on a white plate, cut into bites and drizzled with strawberry jam

Why you’ll love this strawberry cream cheese ring

Just a few ingredients. Crescent dough, light cream cheese, fresh strawberries, and a spoonful of reduced sugar jam for the drizzle. That is the whole list.
A nice 2 Point dessert. Reduced fat dough and light cream cheese do the work, so the strawberries stay front and center.
It pretties up the table. A ring of golden spirals on a white plate gets a reaction every time, and nobody needs to know it started as a tube of dough.
No special equipment. A baking sheet, a knife, and a microwave for the jam.
Ready in under half an hour. Ten minutes of prep, then the oven does the rest.

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 16 minutes

Total Time: 26 minutes

Servings: 14

Serving Size: 1 bite

2 WW Points Per Serving. You can view the recipe on the WW App here. (WW login required.)

Ingredients

1 package reduced fat Pillsbury crescent rolls
1/4 cup light cream cheese, softened
Sliced fresh strawberries
1.5 Tbsp reduced sugar strawberry jam, melted

Reduced fat crescent dough is the whole reason this lands where it does. Regular crescent dough works and tastes a touch richer, but it changes the points, so check the app if you swap.

Light cream cheese needs to be properly soft before you start. Cold cream cheese tears the dough the second you try to spread it. Leave it on the counter while the oven preheats, or give it a few seconds in the microwave.

Fresh strawberries should be sliced thin and patted dry. Thin slices lie flat and roll neatly; thick ones make bumps that split the dough.

Reduced sugar jam is the drizzle, not the filling. Melted, a tablespoon and a half laces the whole ring.

How to make strawberry cream cheese crescent rolls

Preheat the oven to 350F and spray a baking sheet. Set it aside.
Unroll the crescent dough and lay it out as one big rectangle, pinching all the seams together so you have a single sheet with no gaps.
Spread the softened cream cheese over the dough, right to the edges, then layer the strawberry slices on top.

crescent roll dough spread with light cream cheese and covered with sliced fresh strawberries

Roll it up lengthwise, slowly and gently, then pinch the ends closed so no strawberries are peeking out.

the filled crescent dough rolled into a long log on a wooden cutting board

Cut into 14 bite size pieces with a serrated knife, using a sawing motion rather than pressing down.
Arrange the pieces in a circle on the tray, cut side up, close together but not touching. They need a little room or they will not bake through properly. Bake 14 to 16 minutes, until golden.

unbaked strawberry cream cheese crescent slices arranged in a circle on a baking sheet

Slide the ring carefully onto a plate. A wide spatula or the back of a baking sheet makes this easier than it sounds.
Melt the jam in the microwave for about 25 seconds, drizzle it over the bites, and serve warm.

golden baked strawberry cream cheese crescent bites in a ring with a heart of strawberry jam in the middle

Tips and tricks

Pinch the seams properly. If the perforations are still open, the cream cheese finds them and leaks out in the oven. Press along every line with your fingers first.
Do not overfill. A quarter cup of cream cheese across the whole sheet looks thin, and that is right. More filling means a log that will not seal.
Pat the strawberries dry. Berries give off juice as they sit, and wet fruit makes the inside of the dough gummy instead of flaky.
Chill the log if it goes soft. Ten minutes in the fridge before slicing gives you clean spirals instead of squashed ones.

Variations and substitutions

Swap the berries. Raspberries, blueberries, or thin slices of peach all roll up the same way. Match the jam to the fruit.
Add a little sweetness. A teaspoon of sugar free vanilla pudding mix or a splash of vanilla stirred into the cream cheese makes the filling taste more like cheesecake.
Make it a loaf, not a ring. Slice the log and lay the pieces flat in a round cake pan for something closer to a pull apart.
Go savory. The same fold and bake gives you a savory Mediterranean crescent ring for a party spread.

Any swap changes the points, so recheck them in the app before you count them.

Make ahead and storage

These are at their best warm, within an hour of coming out of the oven, when the dough is still crisp at the edges. Leftovers keep in an airtight container in the fridge for up to two days. Warm them for a few minutes in a 350F oven or an air fryer rather than the microwave, which turns the dough soft.

You can assemble and slice the log a few hours ahead, keep the pieces covered on the tray in the fridge, and bake them off when you want them. I would not freeze these, though. Strawberries release too much water when they thaw.

close up of two strawberry cream cheese crescent bites showing the strawberry and cream cheese layers inside

More strawberry desserts to try

If strawberry season has you buying more than you can eat, my strawberry shortcake uses pound cake instead of biscuits, and these no-bake strawberry cheesecake shooters come together in minutes when you do not want to turn the oven on. There are plenty more where those came from in my Weight Watchers dessert recipes.

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