Desserts
Christmas Crescent Ring Recipe
Prep Time | 10 minutes |
Cook Time | 10 minutes |
Passive Time | 5 minutes |
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Ingredients
- 2 packages crescent roll dough 8 ounce
- 1 containerpure almond paste 7 ounce
- 1 cup ⁄4seedless red raspberry jam or 1⁄4cherry jam
Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 1 tablespoons ⁄2water
- 1 teaspoon ⁄4almond extract
- sugar dipped cherries and small pear optional
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Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Line a heavy large baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- Unroll crescent dough; separate along dough perforations into 16 triangles.
- Overlap 8 dough triangles on prepared baking sheet, forming a 10-inch-diameter dough disk that looks like the sun with a hole in the middle.
- Press edges together to seal the dough "disk".
- Using a rolling pin, roll out almond paste between 2 sheets of waxed paper into a 9-inch diameter disk.
- Place almond disk atop dough disk.
- Spread jam over almond paste.
- Using remaining 8 dough triangles, arrange second 10-inch diameter dough disk atop jam.
- Pinch edges of dough disks to seal; tuck edges under.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until golden brown.
- Remove from oven and cool for 10 minutes.
- While ring is baking, make glaze by stirring powdered sugar, water, and almond extract together in a medium bowl until smooth.
- Drizzle half of glaze over warm crescent.
- Let glaze set for 10 minutes and then drizzle remaining glaze over.
- Decorate with sugar-dipped cherries and small pears, if desired.