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Sausage Cream Cheese Casserole is filled with a savory sausage and cream cheese center. It’s the perfect breakfast recipe!
I love quick and easy crescent roll recipes like Cinnamon Twists, Breakfast Crescent Ring, and Cinnamon Cream Cheese Crescent Rolls. You will definitely want to add this 3 ingredient Sausage Cream Cheese Casserole to your go-to list!!
Who here loves breakfast dishes?!
We especially love the breakfast recipes that are simple and quick. This Sausage Cream Cheese Casserole is one of those!
It’s one of the easiest “casseroles” you’ll ever make, with literally 3 ingredients!
You can use hot sausage, turkey sausage, maple sausage – practically any sausage you prefer. I ended up using the Jimmy Dean Pork Sausage crumbles since I always have them on hand for breakfast dishes.
That particular sausage is also already cooked, making the recipe even more simple and quick. It’s great, and I love that this Cream Cheese Sausage Breakfast Casserole can be changed so easily with different meats and cheeses!!
Just Layer & Bake!
Sausage Breakfast Casserole with Crescent Rolls is quick, easy, and so good!
PREP. Preheat oven to 375°F.
SAUSAGE. Place sausage crumbles and cream cheese in a medium pot and cook on low heat until combined and warm.
CRESCENTS. Unroll crescent roll dough onto a greased pan and pinch seams together.
LAYER. 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.
BAKE. Pinch the seams together then pinch the top to the bottom crescent roll dough sealing all around the edges. Bake for 14-16 minutes. Serve warm. ENJOY!
I’m telling you – this is too easy and delicious not to love!!
Recipe Tips
Uncooked sausage. Use a package of cooked crumbled sausage to make this recipe easy and quick or cook up your own sausage.
- You need about 1½ lb – 2 lb worth of pork sausage. Heat up a skillet and brown the sausage. Drain excess oil before adding in the cream cheese.
9×13 pan. Follow the same steps but press it in a 9×13 pan. Add about 5 minutes to the bake time.
Soggy bottom. If the bottom is soggy, the oven may be heating the pan unevenly. Next time, tent the casserole with aluminum foil to prevent the top from browning while letting it bake more.
To make it more flavorful
Bacon bits. Mix in some cooked crumbled bacon bits in with the cream cheese and sausage mixture.
Cheese. Add shredded cheddar cheese, Colby jack cheese, or pepper jack cheese. Either mix it in with the mat mixture or sprinkle it over the meat mixture before adding the top layer of crust.
Vegetables. Saute some veggies like onions, bell pepper, spinach, mushrooms, and jalapenos, then add in the sausage crumbles and cream cheese.
Sausage. Change the type of sausage used to easily adjust the flavor of the dish. Use crumbled maple syrup breakfast sausage, crumbled mild sausage, or crumbled hot Italian sausage.
Adding spices is another simple way to add extra flavor to your Sausage Cream Cheese Casserole Recipe. Use salt, pepper, garlic powder, and paprika. Make sure to put the seasoning into the sausage and cream cheese mixture when it’s on the stove so that it all becomes well incorporated.
Storing Info
Make ahead of time. Prepare the meat mixture the night before. Add the cooked sausage to the cream cheese. Once combined, allow it to cool before storing it in an airtight container in the fridge.
Take the mixture out about 30 minutes before assembling the Sausage and Cream Cheese Casserole so the meat mixture can come to room temperature.
The sausage mixture can be stored in the freezer for about 4 months. Thaw overnight in the fridge before using.
STORE leftover Crescent Roll Sausage Casserole covered in the refrigerator for 3-4 days. Reheat individual servings in the microwave or larger servings in the oven until warmed through.
FREEZE. Either freeze a whole fully baked casserole or in individual pieces for 2-3 months.
- Small portions. Reheat Breakfast Casserole with Cream Cheese slices in a toaster oven or microwave.
- Entire casserole. Thaw, then 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.
For more simple breakfast dishes:
- Breakfast Bites
- Biscuit Egg Casserole
- Cheesy Potato Breakfast Casserole
- Biscuits and Gravy
- Easy Coffee Cake
Sausage Cream Cheese Casserole
Ingredients
- 2 packages Jimmy Dean Pork Sausage Crumbles (9.6 oz each)
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 2 packages crescent rolls (8 oz each)
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 two crescent roll doughs together all around the edges.
- Bake for 14-16 minutes. Serve warm. ENJOY!
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Recipe adapted from The Kitchen is my Playground
Why would you not list any ingredients with an asterisk or something that is already cooked sausage, I don’t usually read the little story that goes along with the recipe and that’s the only place you put it that it was already cooked, I almost ate a lot of undercooked pork because of you
The ingredient list calls for Jimmy Dean sausage crumbles, which says on the package as “fully cooked”. But if someone can’t find that ingredient or would prefer to another uncooked pork, we included the “tip” to cook it in the post. We didn’t include an asterisk with information in the recipe card because the actual ingredient called for is fully cooked. 🙂
How negative. Blaming others for your ignorance and not paying attention. People never cease to amaze!
What size pan?
I typically use a baking sheet… whatever size you have!
We like things spicy around here to we used a hotter pork sausage to cook up and crumble. The spicy sausage paired with cream cheese was a hit
I absolutely love this!! I love sausage, more than bacon & this is hearty, can feed a crowd, & is so yummy!!
Thanks fir sharing ideas and yummy treats.
You’re welcome!
It was really easy and really yummy. Kid approved also!
Omg.. the easiest & best tasting breakfast ever!!!
Could you add scramble egg to the mixture? This looks so yummy!
We love this recipe! I do add a large onion and half of an orange bell pepper cooked and added to the sausage and cream cheese mixture.. Next level flavor. Thank you for the recipe!
You’re welcome! Those additions sound delicious for flavor. Thanks for sharing.
This is a family fav! I am making this for a vacation and want to freeze ahead of time? Advice on best way to freeze?
I’m so glad your family enjoys the recipe. You know, I haven’t frozen this one before and I’m not sure how the texture would be affected by freezing?? I would probably assemble everything and then wrap tightly and freeze. When you are ready to eat, I’d also probably thaw the casserole in the fridge overnight before baking. Then just bake as directed. You’ll have to let us know how it turns out if you do freeze it! Another option is to have all the ingredients ready to go (sausage cooked, etc.) and then do a quick assembly the morning of.