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These bacon pinwheels are made with crescent dough, cream cheese, cheddar, bacon, and ranch for the perfect snack or appetizer! Just 20 minutes from start to finish and always the first thing that gets eaten!
There aren’t too many food combinations better than bacon, cheddar, and ranch – but we might have outdone ourselves on this one, because we threw some crescent dough into the mix!
These little bacon pinwheels have that delicious, buttery goodness of a crescent roll and they’re filled with cream cheese, cheddar, bacon, green onions, and a sprinkling of ranch seasoning.
When I say people rave about these little pinwheels, I mean it. I’m asked for the recipe every time I serve these at parties!
So, yeah, these are a definite party staple in my house and have been for years and years, but it probably comes as no surprise that I’ve made them a few times here and there for lunch for me and the kiddos too!
You have all the food groups here, if we can call green onions a veggie and they’re literally named GREEN onions, so I think it counts…green = veggie in my book!
Ingredient Notes:
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Crescent Roll Dough – The dough sheets are easiest (no perforations!), but regular crescent dough is fine too. Just unroll it and press the seams together with your fingers.
Bacon – You’ll need to fry up some bacon and chop it into pieces. We usually make bacon ahead of time and have it ready to go for recipes like this. Check out this air fryer bacon recipe, it’s super quick and easy clean up!
Cheese – Some shredded cheddar and cream cheese will add lots of creamy, cheesy flavor to this easy pinwheel recipe!
Ranch Seasoning – We keep a shaker container of this on hand. You can also use a packet.
Green Onion – These go in with the bacon and cheddar cheese to get rolled up into the pinwheel dough and baked!
Why We Love This Recipe!
These pinwheels are so easy to make! You can just roll out the crescent dough, pile on the ingredients, roll it back up and get to baking! It’s a quick and easy appetizer that we love to serve at gatherings and cheddar, bacon, and ranch are always a hit!
How To Make Bacon Pinwheels:
Dough: Roll the dough out onto a large cutting board.
Helpful Tip!
Dough Sheets Vs. Crescent Rolls
Pillsbury sells crescent dough sheets right next to the crescent rolls and we love them! If you can’t find them, go ahead and use crescent rolls. The only difference is that you’ll need to pinch the seams together to form a solid sheet of dough.
Cream Cheese: When you’ve got the dough rolled out and shaped you can start spreading the cream cheese over the top of the dough in an even layer. Next, sprinkle on the ranch seasoning over the cream cheese!
Filling: Sprinkle bacon, shredded cheddar, and green onion over the cream cheese.
Roll: Starting with the widest side, start rolling the dough up, just like you would a cinnamon roll. Use a serrated knife to slice the dough into 1/2″ pieces and pop them on a baking sheet.
Bake: Bake at 375 for 15 minutes or until nice and golden.
FAQs:
These are best made fresh, but leftovers can be stored in the fridge and reheated briefly in a hot oven, just until warmed through.
We bake these pinwheels at 375 degrees for about 15 minutes – just long enough to cook the centers through and turn the edges golden brown.
MORE CRESCENT ROLL PINWHEEL RECIPES!
MORE EASY CRESCENT ROLL RECIPES!
- Air Fryer Pigs in a Blanket
- Cold Veggie Pizza
- Cheese Stuffed Crescent Rolls
- Homemade Pizza Rolls
- Sopapilla Cheesecake Bars
Bacon Pinwheels
Ingredients
- 1 package crescent roll dough sheet
- 2 ounces cream cheese room temperature
- 1 teaspoon ranch seasoning powder
- 1 cup shredded cheddar
- 5 slices bacon fried and crumbled
- 1/4 cup chopped green onions
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Unroll the crescent dough on a cutting board. If there are seams in the dough, press together with your fingers to form a solid sheet of dough.
- Spread the dough with the cream cheese and sprinkle with ranch seasoning.
- Sprinkle on the bacon, cheddar, and green onion.
- Roll the dough up, jelly roll style, starting with the long side of the dough. Slice into 16 pieces, about 1/2 inch each. Place on a large baking sheet.
- Bake for 15 minutes or until the dough is cooked through and golden.
- Serve warm or at room temperature.
Rachel @ Baked by Rachel says
Cheese and bacon? Yes please 🙂 Though I think I’d sub in shredded cheese since I’m *gasp* not a cream cheese fan. Still totally love this idea!
Jamie says
Are these good served at room temperature? Love your blog
Christy says
I am going to make these! I love that you used the word smoosh…like the Jersey Shore peeps.
grace says
you’re on a roll, karly! (insert rimshot here.) seriously, these are great. as for the text, well, i only use it when i’m trying to mask a particularly bad picture. 🙂
Michelle says
Cheese and bacon in a flaky crescent roll? I’m on board! I think I could eat a whole batch by myself, actually.
Kathleen says
Karly, I love this post! I’m so with you on being an obsessive foodie! These bacon pin wheels look really amazing! I just started following you on twitter 😉
Karly says
Jade,
You can just leave the cream cheese out, if you like! I don’t think the ones that I first tried had it in there, but I thought they were a bit dry, so I added it for a bit of creaminess. Flavor-wise, I don’t think you would notice the cream cheese in these if you weren’t the one spreading it on the dough.
You could also substitute a different cheese…maybe sprinkle on a bit of monterey jack in addition to the cheddar? I think that would work just fine!
Enjoy!
Karly
MrsDragon says
I prefer the pictures with no text–your pictures are amazing as is! That said, it’s your blog, do what makes you happy. I love your sense of humor and taste in food so text or not, I’m here. : )
Jade S. says
Is it possible to use another type of cheese instead of cream cheese? I have the worst aversion to cream cheese (I can’t stand the taste). Or does this have a very strong taste of “zomg!CREAMCHEESE!”?
=J.s
dropfood says
Your recipe was posted.
Joanne says
Just hearing the words bacon and cheese triggers an obsession for me. Really. You have created a monster.
Maria says
Great appetizer for the holidays!
TripleZmom (formerly Jerseygirl89) says
The last time I emailed one of you posts to my husband, he made it for dinner that night. So emailing this one right now.
Kim - Mommycosm says
Remind me not to read your blog until I’ve eaten breakfast. YUM! Those look awesome. Who doesn’t love bread, cheese and bacon?!
HaB says
I was just thinking that with a side of scrambled eggs these would be the most awesome with breakfast! YUM!!! (great…now, I’m drooling all over my key board)