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Our HAM AND CHEESE PINWHEELS are a nice and easy appetizer that’s loaded with ham, swiss, and Dijon mustard. Big flavors, minimal work, and everyone gobbles these up!
Our ham and cheese pinwheels are so easy to make with a soft, flaky crescent roll dough, deli ham, plenty of swiss, and a mixture of cream cheese and Dijon to add big flavor and extra creamy goodness.
Serve these up hot, warm, or even at room temperature. You really can’t go wrong either way.
How to make ham and cheese pinwheels:
Stir together your cream cheese and Dijon mustard until well combined. We use stone ground Dijon, but your favorite Dijon will work just fine.
Roll out your crescent roll dough sheet on a clean work surface and spread out the cream cheese mixture on top of it.
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.
Place the ham in a single layer on the cream cheese. We use 1/4 pound of deli ham for this recipe.
Sprinkle grated swiss cheese over the top of the whole thing. Feel free to mix it up and use any cheese you like.
Roll the dough up jelly roll style and slice off about 3/4 inch slices and put them on a baking sheet. We find it easiest to cut the dough in half, cut each half in half again, and then cut each piece into 3. Evenly sized pinwheels every time!
Bake for 9-10 minutes until golden.
Make Ahead!
These pinwheels are delicious hot, warm, or at room temp. We don’t love them from the fridge, so when making ahead you’ll want to prepare them, but not bake them until ready to serve.
Recipe hacks:
You can add some little pieces of chopped bacon to this. Bacon makes everything better!
Feel free to swap out the Swiss for whatever you prefer.
More easy appetizers:
- Veggie tortilla roll-ups
- Mac and cheese potato skins
- Turkey and swiss pull apart bread
- Homemade queso dip
- Fried green tomatoes
Ham and Swiss Pinwheels
Ingredients
- 1 tube crescent roll dough sheet
- 2 ounces cream cheese room temperature
- 1 tablespoon dijon mustard
- 4 ounces deli sliced ham
- 2 ounces swiss cheese shredded
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
- Unroll the crescent dough sheet on a clean work surface. If you're using crescent rolls that have the seams for tearing apart, pinch the seams together to form one sheet of dough.
- In a small bowl, stir together the cream cheese and dijon mustard until well combined.
- Spread the cream cheese mixture over the crescent dough. Place the ham in a single layer over the cream cheese. Sprinkle with the swiss cheese.
- Roll the dough up jelly roll style. Slice into 12 equally sized pieces and place on a baking sheet.
- Bake for 9 minutes or until golden.
- Serve immediately or at room temperature.
Cindy Dvis says
Want to make them for a cocktail party, but really need to do them in the middle of the day because I have to do four batches. Hope you have found since 2014 that you can make them ahead and refridgerate
Daniela Anderson says
Ham and cheese are a match made in heaven, I can’t possibly have enough of them, no matter the dish. These pretty little things make a great appetizer, I am sure I would have one too many.
Ruth Leslie says
I plan to make these for my Super Bowl party. I wanted to practice making them before then, so I made a batch last night. Super easy and delicious. I also made a batch with pepperoni and those turned out great too!
Karly says
@Ruth Leslie,
So glad you enjoyed them!
simple green moms says
These look like such an easy fun Super Bowl snack! Great thinking =)
Trish - Mom On Timeout says
These sound amazing Karly! I love the addition of cream cheese – yum!! Pinned 🙂
Karly says
@Trish – Mom On Timeout,
One can never have too much cream cheese! 🙂
Renee @Two in the Kitchen says
This is my kind of thing for a quick lunch for me and the kids on a Sat. afternoon!! We would gobble them up!!
Pamela @ Brooklyn Farm Girl says
Love this, would snack on them until they’re gone!
Julie V says
This is what I need for New Years Eve!
Juliann says
So, I subscribe using bookmarks and the Buns in My Oven bookmark hasn’t been working for a few weeks now. What am I doing wrong? The other blogs I follow work…I love yours and am sad it’s not working!!
Karly says
@Juliann,
Hi Juliann!
So sorry you’re having troubles! I have no experience using Bookmarks. Are you just saving the link in your bookmarks on your browser or is it some type of RSS reader?
Rachel says
Can you refrigerate before slicing and cooking? And if so, for how long?
Karly says
@Rachel,
I think that would work great! I wouldn’t refrigerate them for more than a day, but I haven’t tried it myself.
Trish says
These sound so good! And after the past few hectic weeks I’m all about anything easy. I’ll definitely be making these!
Belinda@themoonblushbaker says
Sounds like you guys are having a ball! My dad just had his birthday too, I hope your daughter was showered with lovely gifts and food (of course, you are her mother!)
Seriously divine scrolls!
Joanne says
These are hardcore crowd pleasers. Happy birthday to your daughter!!
Aimee @ ShugarySweets says
I like stupid easy recipes. These sound delicious Karly! Happy New Year 🙂
Taylor @ FoodFaithFitness says
Ohhhhh these are pretty! And so perfect for NYE snackin’. Or anytime of the day snackin’. I love these for three reasons 1)easy 2)ham and swiss? yes please 3) crescent roll dough. Always a good idea.
Yum!