bacon-cheese croissants
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My mom's cousin has made these numerous times for family get-togethers. She never has any left! These can be made with refrigerator crescent rolls, but homemade croissants are so much better!
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yield
24 appetizers
prep time
1 Hr 40 Min
cook time
10 Min
Ingredients For bacon-cheese croissants
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1 pkgactive dry yeast
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1/3 cwarm water
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4 tspsugar
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3/4 tspsalt
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3 3/4 cflour
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3eggs, room tempature
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1/2 cmargarine, softened and cut into pieces
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1egg plus 1 tbsp. milk
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1 pkgcream cheese, softened
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2/3 ccrumbled cooked bacon
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1/2 conion, chopped
How To Make bacon-cheese croissants
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1Put into a large bowl, dry yeast, sugar, salt and 1 cup flour; mix. Add warm water and 3 eggs and mix with mixer until smooth. Mix in margarine and the rest of the flour to make soft dough.
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2On floured board, knead dough for 5 minutes. Place in bowl and let rise for 45 minutes. Punch down; chill dough for 15 minutes. While dough is raising mix together cream cheese, bacon and onion for filling.
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3Roll out 1/2 of dough in to 2 10in. circles. Spread with 1/4 (each) of filling. Cut into 6 wedges. Ross into crescents. Place on baking sheet. Repeat with other dough. Let rise for 45 mins.
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4Brush with egg/milk mixture and then bake at 425 degrees for 8-10 minutes.
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