Sausage Cream Cheese Casserole is one of those easy, delicious recipes we love for breakfast, brunch, or holiday mornings. It only takes three main ingredients, crescent rolls, sausage, and cream cheese, and bakes into a warm, flaky casserole with a creamy, savory filling.
We love serving this for Christmas morning, weekend breakfasts, baby showers, and family brunches because it’s simple and always disappears fast. Slice it into squares and serve warm for the easiest crowd-pleasing breakfast.
For more savory breakfast casseroles, try Cheesy Breakfast Casserole, Crockpot Breakfast Casserole, and Biscuit and Gravy Casserole.
Why you’ll love it + Why it work:
- Just 3 ingredients! The sausage crumbles are already cooked, making it even easier.
- 5-minute prep. Just layer and bake – that makes for one easy morning!
- Cream cheese makes the filling creamy. It melts into the sausage and helps hold everything together.
- Crescent dough creates easy layers. The bottom and top crust bake up golden, flaky, and perfect for slicing.
Sausage Cream Cheese Casserole Ingredients
- Jimmy Dean Pork Sausage Crumbles (2 packages, 9.6-ounces each): Fully cooked, brings savory flavor and protein, and since they are ready to use, they cut prep to almost nothing, or cook 1½ lbs of pork sausage. Use maple syrup breakfast sausage, mild sausage, spicy sausage, or hot Italian sausage.
- Cream cheese (8-ounces): Melts into the sausage to create a rich, creamy filling that holds the layers together and keeps every bite moist.
- Crescent rolls (2 packages, 8-ounces each): The rolls bake into a buttery top and bottom crust that turns golden and flaky, making the casserole easy to slice and serve.
- optional variations: bacon bits, scrambled eggs, shredded cheese like Colby jack cheese, cheddar cheese, or pepper jack cheese, or add sauteed veggies like green chilies, onions, bell pepper, spinach, mushrooms, or jalapenos
- optional spices: salt, black pepper, garlic powder, paprika, or red pepper flakes to taste
How to Make Sausage Cream Cheese Casserole
PREP. Preheat oven to 375°F.
WARM. Place packages of cooked sausage crumbles. Add cream cheese to a medium pot and cook on low heat until combined and warm.
ASSEMBLE. Unroll a package of crescent roll dough onto a greased pan and pinch the seams together. Pour the sausage and cream cheese mixture over the dough and spread it around. Unroll the second crescent roll dough and pinch the seams together. Place it over the top of the sausage.
BAKE. Pinch the top layer to the bottom crescent roll dough, sealing all around the edges. Bake for 14-16 minutes. Serve warm. ENJOY!
Kristyn’s Recipe Tips
- To use uncooked sausage, you’ll need about 1½ lbs worth of pork sausage. Heat a large skillet and brown the sausage. Drain excess oil before adding the cream cheese.
- We like to bake the casserole on a tray, but a 9×13 baking dish works too, just add about 5 minutes to the bake time.
- Press the crescent roll seams firmly and seal the edges well to help keep the sausage mixture from leaking out.
- Add up to ½ cup bacon bits, shredded cheese, or sauteed veggies.
Sausage Cream Cheese Casserole Recipe
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Ingredients
- 2 (9.6-ounce) packages Jimmy Dean Pork Sausage Crumbles, fully cooked
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- 2 (8-ounce) packages crescent rolls
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- Place sausage crumbles and cream cheese in a medium pot and cook on low heat until combined and warm.
- Unroll crescent roll dough onto a greased pan and pinch seams together.
- Pour the sausage and cream cheese mixture over the dough and spread it around.
- Unroll the second crescent roll dough and place it over the top of the sausage. Pinch seams together and pinch the two crescent roll doughs all around the edges.
- Bake for 14-16 minutes. Serve warm. ENJOY!
Notes
- To use uncooked sausage, you’ll need about 1½ lbs worth of pork sausage. Heat a large skillet and brown the sausage. Drain excess oil before adding the cream cheese.
- We like to bake the casserole on a tray, but a 9×13 baking dish works too, just add about 5 minutes to the bake time.
- Press the crescent roll seams firmly and seal the edges well to help keep the sausage mixture from leaking out.
- Add up to ½ cup bacon bits, shredded cheese, or sauteed veggies.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Recipe FAQ
Add the cooked sausage to the cream cheese and heat. Once done, allow it to cool before storing it in an airtight container in the fridge. Take the mixture out for about 30 minutes before assembling and baking.
Store leftover cream cheese breakfast casserole in an airtight container(s) in the refrigerator for 3-4 days, or in the freezer for 2-3 months. Thaw if needed and reheat individual servings in the microwave or larger servings in the oven until warmed.
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This recipe was originally published March 2016.
Recipe adapted from The Kitchen is My Playground
I love this recipe so much… the savory sweet combination is just perfection!
Right?! Thanks for sharing that!
Question, can you use turkey sausage, instead of pork?
Could you assemble this and freeze prior to cooking? Looking for some freezer meals for post partum!
I typically bake and then will freeze the baked casserole. Then you will thaw, and reheat it in the oven at 350°F. Have a piece of tin foil handy to tent over the dish to keep it from burning while the center warms up. Hope that helps! 🙂
I have made this many times and it is delicious! I add 2 cups of grated cheddar cheese to the top of mix before I put the 2nd can of cresent roll dough on the top. I also put it in a greased 9×13 pan and add a couple of extra minutes until it is brown.
My sister adds a can of chopped green chilies, drained for a little spice.
Could you add scrambled eggs to this?
I suppose you could! We actually have a sausage breakfast casserole with sausage, eggs and crescent roll dough. It’s similar to this and has eggs. Here’s the link if you want to check that out: https://lilluna.com/sausage-breakfast-casserole/
Made this in high school and I loved it so I wanted to make it again and found this recipe! It came out great and delicious. 10/10 ❤️
Double batch only gave me one pan. Son loves it. Hubby hasn’t eaten it yet. Easy to make other than frying up sausage, drain and add cream cheese. Just have to cook it in a good non stick pan on low. Took a while for that. Dough was hard to pinch but make sure you spray your baking pan before stretching dough.
I used brown sugar and cinnamon cream cheese spread and added a quarter cup of brown sugar to the sausage as it was finishing browning. I love sweets