Taco Crescent Ring – kid friendly dinner or great as an appetizer!
Taco Crescent Ring
This Taco Crescent Ring is a kid friendly meal that puts a fun spin on the traditional taco night. Taco seasoned ground beef and shredded cheese is wrapped in crescent rolls and baked to perfection. Then it’s served up with all the taco fixings. Because it’s so eye-catching, I think it would also be great served as an appetizer.
Tips & Tricks
- While the directions for creating the crescent roll “sun” might sound complicated, the pictures below show it’s really quite easy to make. It’s like a little craft project! I recommend cutting along the lines of the crescent rolls with a small sharp knife before separating them.
- Work quickly as you arrange the crescent triangles in a ring on the largest flat baking sheet you have. Be sure the meat filling is cooked and cooled a little when you begin laying the pastry dough out. Spoon the filling in an even mound that surrounds the center opening so there’s plenty of dough to wrap up and over it. Use a small metal spatula or table knife to help tuck the dough in.
- Optionally, you can brush the assembled ring with an egg wash before baking (beat an egg with a spoonful of water.) This will give it a nice glossy finish.
- To embellish your Taco Crescent meal, serve your choice of shredded lettuce, chopped tomato, sliced olives, chopped avocado or thinly sliced radishes. You can fill the center and serve the additional fixings on the side. In addition to taco sauce, you can mix up a tasty taco ranch dressing by stirring taco sauce into ranch dressing.Chili Con Queso would also be another delicious option drizzled over the top or served on the side for dipping.
Arrange crescent rolls in a sun pattern and have your slightly cooled taco/cheese mixture ready for the next step.
Mound filling onto ring and wrap crescent rolls around filling.
Assembled Taco Crescent Ring ready for the oven. If you are using the egg wash, brush it on ring at this point.
Bake to a golden brown in 25-30 minutes. Then cool for 5 minutes before adding fixings, slicing and serving.
Serve Taco Crescent Ring with your favorite fixings.
Taco Crescent Ring
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef I used 85% lean
- 1 1 oz package taco seasoning mix
- 1 cup shredded cheddar or cheese combination
- 2 8 oz cans Pillsbury refrigerated crescent dinner rolls
- Optional – shredded lettuce, chopped tomatoes, sliced black olives, chopped avocado, sliced radishes, taco ranch dressing or chili con queso
Instructions
- Heat oven to 375°F. In 10-inch nonstick skillet, cook beef until no longer pink. Add taco seasoning mix and 1/2 cup water. Simmer 3 to 4 minutes or until slightly thickened. In medium bowl, mix beef mixture and cheese. Let cool for a few mintes.Unroll both cans of dough. Cut along lines with a small sharp knife, separating dough into 16 triangles. On ungreased large cookie sheet, arrange triangles in ring so short sides of triangles form a 5-inch circle in center. Dough will overlap. Dough ring should look like the sun.Spoon beef mixture on the half of each triangle closest to center of ring.
Bring each dough triangle up over filling, tucking tip of dough under bottom center layer of dough to secure it. If you have too much dough to tuck under the center, spread your filling mound out a little bit so there’s just a small amount of dough left to tuck under. Repeat around ring until entire filling is enclosed (some filling might show a little.)Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until dough is golden brown and thoroughly baked. Cool 5 to 10 minutes before cutting into serving slices.
We are here in Chicago with our son and 2 grandsons. Made this for the younger grandson’s birthday dinner. The boys absolutely loved this. Gave it a 2 thumbs up! Although they have re-named it. It will forever be known to our family as the Taco DONUT!
This is very cool! I feel like if I made this when people come over they would think I was super fancy!😊
Too funny! But you are fancy. There’s just no escaping that my dear! 😉
This looks like another great, fairly easy recipe that would appeal to many people. I’m definitely going to try it soon
Excellent. It feeds a crowd so its a good recipe when entertaining.