These Buffalo Chicken & Bacon Croissants are a super easy Super Bowl snack or appetizer! Simply roll up some Buffalo chicken, Buffalo sauce, cream cheese, and bacon, into flaky and buttery Pillsbury crescent rolls!
Game day food!!! And more peanut butter stuff!! Totally kidding. I’m not posting any more peanut butter recipes for, like, 2 days. 🙂 But I am sharing a perfect football-watching snack. After all, my life revolves around football this time of year. Maybe ‘revolves’ is extreme, but we do move extra TVs into the living room from August-January. I soak up every minute that I can.
Now that NFL season is coming to a close, S.O. and I don’t know what to do with ourselves. Without games to watch on Mondays, Thursdays, and soon Sundays, we stare at each other like, “now what?” We get so accustomed to the regimen of “there’s a game tonight” that we are kinda lost without them to watch. Sad, but true!
Like most other red-blooded football fans, we also have the tradition of ordering food on Sundays to accompany our day of leisure. Mainly, pizza and/or wings. I don’t know why I said ‘and/or’ because we definitely order BOTH.
A few weeks ago when I was visiting family for the holidays though, my mom was using up leftovers to slap together lunch for us on a Sunday, and she rolled buffalo chicken and cheese into Pillsbury croissants, and threw them into the oven. They were *awesome.* So simple, but sooo good. I happily ate several of them while planted in front of the tv watching football. Ahhhh, perfection.
For the last 2-3 weeks, these were game day food for us. Of course, there’s nothing original about rolling stuff up in Pillsbury croissant rolls, BUT there’s a reason so many recipes of that nature exist: those croissant rolls are insanely good. Aren’t they? I love them. They’re perfect on their own with just butter, so I overlooked filling them with things, but that was obviously a big mistake. What’s great is you can basically fill them with ANYTHING, and be eating them in about 15 minutes, tops.
Apparently, my mom used to make these for us all the time when we my brother and I were kids. I didn’t recall that at all, but I’m sorry that I don’t because they are delicious!
Today, I teamed up with some fabulous blogger friends to create game day recipes for a Tailgate Party Hop! Be sure to pop around to the other bloggers to check out their delicious game day recipes. Enjoy the party! 
Buffalo Chicken, Bacon, & Cheese Croissants
Ingredients
- 1 - 8 oz. container Pillsbury Crescents
- 1/2 lb. Buffalo chicken deli meat LOVE the Boar's Head Blazing Buffalo Chicken
- 4 slices bacon cooked
- 1 - 3 oz. package cream cheese softened
- 1/4 c. Buffalo sauce divided
- 1/3 c. Ranch dressing optional
Instructions
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On a large cookie sheet or jelly roll pan, pull apart and unroll the crescents.
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Place about 2 rolled-up slices of Buffalo chicken at the wide edge of each crescent.
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Place half of a piece of bacon on top of the Buffalo chicken on each croissant.
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In a small bowl, combine cream cheese and 2 tbsp. Buffalo sauce until well-mixed.
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Place about 1 tbsp. of cream cheese mixture on top of the bacon on each croissant.
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Carefully roll the croissants from the wide end to the narrow end.
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Bake at 350 degrees for 10-14 minutes, or until the tops and edges of the croissants are golden brown.
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Evenly drizzle the remaining 2 tbsp. Buffalo sauce on top of each croissant.
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Serve with Ranch dressing for dipping, if desired. Enjoy!
Gayle @ Pumpkin 'N Spice says
January 15, 2015 at 10:42 amThese croissants look like the perfect game day food, Sarah! I love the chicken and bacon combo! I could totally see my husband and I devouring a whole plate of these in no time. Love this!
Sarah says
January 16, 2015 at 11:06 pmThanks, Gayle! Nothing crazy original here, but can’t go wrong with some classic combos, right?? I loved them!! Have a great weekend, girl!
Dorothy at Shockingly Delicious says
January 15, 2015 at 11:49 amVery clever!
Sarah says
January 16, 2015 at 11:06 pmThank you!
Mandy @Mandy's Recipe Box says
January 15, 2015 at 12:03 pmHow yummy! I love the bacon addition, of course 🙂
Sarah says
January 16, 2015 at 11:07 pmEverything is better with bacon, right?! Thanks, Mandy! 🙂
Stacey @ Bake.Eat.Repeat. says
January 15, 2015 at 12:36 pmI love any kind of bread with stuff rolled up inside. So good! And buffalo chicken? That’s just the best kind! These look delicious. And so easy!
Sarah says
January 16, 2015 at 11:07 pmSO easy. Not the most original of ideas, but is a classic for a reason! These were super yummy! Thanks, Stacey!
Taylor @ Food Faith Fitness says
January 16, 2015 at 7:52 amWHAAAA!? These are GENIUS! It’s totally buffalo season and this is pure gold! Pinned!
Sarah says
January 16, 2015 at 11:10 pmLol! It’s not the most original thing, but you cannot go wrong with buffalo chicken, bacon, and flaky, butter croissants, right?? 🙂 Thanks, girl!
Julie @ Tastes of Lizzy T says
January 16, 2015 at 8:18 amI have to make these for my hubby. Buffalo chicken is his favorite!
Sarah says
January 16, 2015 at 11:11 pmMe too! I love it. I never get sick of it either! These are ridiculously simple, as you can see!! 🙂
Ashley | The Recipe Rebel says
January 16, 2015 at 2:22 pmThis is perfect game day food! Even if there is no peanut butter…. Lol. An awesome combo!
Sarah says
January 16, 2015 at 11:13 pmLol! PB will be back here before you know it! Thanks, Ashley!! 🙂
Amanda says
January 17, 2015 at 4:49 pmThese look delicious, perfect game day food!
Sarah says
January 19, 2015 at 10:48 amThanks, Amanda!
Erin @ Making Memories says
January 17, 2015 at 10:09 pmThese look wonderful. Perfect for game day!
Sarah says
January 19, 2015 at 10:48 amThanks so much!
Lindsay says
January 19, 2015 at 11:03 pmYUM! These have to be so much better for you than chicken wings, right!?!? I love the idea of wrapping all that goodness in the crescent rolls to help neutralize the hot Buffalo sauce. Super Bowl!
Sarah says
January 20, 2015 at 11:39 amYES! They are definitely better for you than chicken wings, and same great flavors! Thanks, Lindsay! 🙂
Gail Akeman says
January 20, 2015 at 8:26 amThese sound good. even buffalo chicken sounds good.
Sarah says
January 20, 2015 at 11:40 amSo glad you like the sound of them!
Jocelyn @BruCrew Life says
January 20, 2015 at 10:53 amHello delicious little appetizers. I’m pretty sure I would eat the entire batch and not share with anyone at any party these were at!!!
Sarah says
January 20, 2015 at 11:47 amHaha! Hey, I know I’m guilty of hoarding the good stuff away from people at times!!! 🙂
The Future Mrs. Vines says
January 20, 2015 at 9:41 pmOh, I’m definitely gonna make this one. I have everything except the cream cheese, which I KNEW I should have picked up last weekend. I’ll have to grab some and make this within the next few days. Way better idea than what I was going to do with my crescent rolls.
Sarah says
January 20, 2015 at 10:05 pmI love crescent rolls just on their own, but this was a really delicious way to use them! Perfect for a quick lunch! 🙂
Stephanie says
January 24, 2015 at 11:08 amLooks so good!! Thank you so much for linking up at Tasty Tuesday! Your recipe has been pinned to the Tasty Tuesday Pinterest board! Please join us again this week!
[email protected] in Pyjamas says
January 26, 2015 at 6:42 amThese snacks look very tasty. Thanks for linking up to Sweet and Savoury Sunday, stop by and link up again. Have a great day!!
Sarah says
January 27, 2015 at 10:46 amThank you!
Natalie says
January 30, 2015 at 1:31 pmThese sound great! So clever! Bacon, cream cheese, buffalo chicken……all so good!
Sarah says
February 1, 2015 at 5:01 pmWhy thank you. I think you can do so many things with those canned croissants, right? Happy Super Bowl Day!!! 🙂