Cool! Thanks for posting your experiment! I hope to take these to my mom and dad's for Christmas. Totally cool to have an alternative to the crescent rolls my brother INSISTS on having at every holiday meal.

Thanks! Merry Christmas!

Caroline, Cincinnati OH

Edit:  I almost forgot, does your flour blend already have xanthan gum in it? I almost always use the Wendy Wark's blend -- already has it in there. I usually just add the full amt. called for in the recipe anyway -- since I make up an 8-cup blend of the WW blend, I figure I'm not hurting anything!

Cool, thanks! I might start doing a "non xanthan" mix. It always feels a bit "iffy" when I add it to the Wendy Wark. Too much? Not enough?

Have a great holiday!

Caroline

Those look really good!  I'm going to have to make those.  I really miss crescent rolls!  Merry Christmas!

Lori in OK

Thanks mireille - I'm going to have to play with attaching and the new camera too.  I didn't read the book much, but there are so many things.

Now - that table is gorgeous!  I love fancy set tables ...in our family at gatherings..., with so many, its "fancy paper" lol..it suits us fine, mostly, but sometimes, a nice table would be great!

Oh, and I made all the female relatives try a roll...and the verdict was:  great.  My one SIL I think hit it on the head:  just like the pillsbury, but a bit denser. (She liked these better than pillsbury she said because she likes them a bit heavier - other SIL made the pillsbury ones!)...

Mereille, it took me a bit to get the right shape...first time, I made them too small too...

Here is what I did (for one batch of dough) - really, you need to make a pizza crust size and then cut into 8 like a pizza:

Take a big piece of parchment paper.  Get a 14" round pizza pan...trace it on the parchment paper.  Turn paper over (so don't get the pencil onto the dough, but you can still see it).  Roll out dough so that its even and round (go past the pencil edges)...then, cut to a nice circle right near the penciled line...Save the extra...

Then, take a pizza cutter (or knife) and slice like you would for 8 pieces of pizza...roll from fat end to thin end (middle of pizza).  And, you have the shape really.  You'll have about enough to make 2 extra ones (at least I did) with the dough you cut off (depends on how thick you cut)...

When you move to the baking sheet, make sure the edge is tucked under (or it'll lift a bit). 

For a double batch, I got 19 of them total...8 from each round and then the extra dough made three more.  The extra ones were harder to do, as I couldn't do the circle method, but still ok.

Not sure if I explained that correctly....For the double batch, I used 1/2 cup of cream cheese pressed into a measuring cup and then 1 cup of 2% cottage cheese, 1 stick of (unsalted) butter and then double the other ingredients I used...

I don't know, lol...I never made the original version - just the modified one I posted.  I don't detect ANY sweetness at all in these and neither does anyone else.  And, Kevin would note...

I do note sweetness in bread products if its there at all  - and I don't like it alot - for example - my cornmuffin recipe uses about 1/2 the amount of sugar I see in most cornmuffin recipes because I don't like the sweet taste...But, in these crescent rolls, you don't taste any sweet at all - I mostly note a buttery taste, honestly. 

Jen,

I have made your version twice now and both times they came out perfect!!!

Thanks for posting and to Rochelle too for getting this whole thing started!!

Nancy in Phila.

Jen -

I am interested in trying these, but on my screen it shows a question mark next to the salt amount: ? tsp salt.

So how much salt? I would guess 1/4 or 1/2 tsp.

Thanks,

Kate
Michigan