Bacon Cream Cheese Pinwheels

These would be great for a party. They are fairly simple to make and super tasty. You can easily make two batches from one block of cream cheese, one pack of bacon and two tubes of crescent rolls. Now that's what I call economical, even if it's not super healthy.

• 3 oz cream cheese, softened
• 2 Tbsp finely chopped white onion
• 1 tsp 2% milk
• 1 tube (8 oz) refrigerated crescent rolls
• 5 bacon strips, cooked and finely chopped

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a small bowl, mix cream cheese, onion and milk until blended. On a lightly floured surface, unroll crescent dough into one long rectangle; press perforations to seal. 

Spread with cream cheese mixture; sprinkle with bacon. Roll up jelly-roll style, starting with a long side; pinch seam to seal. Using a serrated knife, cut roll crosswise into 24 slices. Place on ungreased baking sheets; cut side down. Bake 12-15 minutes or until golden brown. Refrigerate leftovers.

NOTES: Make sure to flour your knife often while cutting. I don't think there is an easy way to cut something gooey like crescent rolls, but using a floured, serrated knife worked as well as anything. We re-plumped the pinwheels when moving them to the cookie sheet.

When you're putting the cream cheese/onion mixture on the rolls: just keep spreading lightly. At first, it looked like we wouldn't have enough to cover our whole area, but with a small spatula, Doug kept lightly running it over the mixture and it eventually spread to cover everything evenly. 

Makes 2 dozen

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Total Time: : 20 minutes

Recipe from Taste of Home