A crispy chicken finger, bacon, cheddar, and ranch rolled up in a crescent roll — six ingredients, eighteen minutes at 375, and it works as appetizer or dinner.
Three things that make these rollups work
Five steps is the whole recipe, and these are the three places it goes right or wrong.
- Chicken goes on uncooked: The fingers bake right along with the crescent rolls in the same eighteen minutes.
- Roll from the wide end: The point wraps around the outside so the bacon and cheese stay tucked in.
- Butter after the bake: Brushing the warm tops is what gives them the shiny, golden finish.
Lord Heavens, if you like the flavors of crack chicken, you’re really going to love these Crack Chicken crescent roll appetizers! Crack Chicken Finger Rollups are a favorite of my family.
But, don’t overlook these Crack Chicken Sandwiches if you’re looking for another crack chicken recipe to blow your mind as well!
Six ingredients, five steps, eighteen minutes in the oven. This is exactly the kind of recipe I mean when I say I am a lazy cook, and it is one of my family’s favorites.
Crack Chicken Appetizer Chicken Finger Rollups
You see, I am all about making dinner at home. The hustle and bustle of running around getting meals from restaurants, ingesting another calorie filled heartburn inducing fast food meal just doesn’t sound good to me … at all.
So, I love to make meals that I know my family will love. But, I am also admittedly a super lazy cook.
What I mean is this. If the recipe has more than ten ingredients total I am turned off big time.
And, the steps … let’s just say that beyond five steps and my eyes start to get fuzzy and my brain goes into overload. 🙂
Which might be why I love the crack chicken recipe craze so much. A recipe for crack chicken anything will contain cheese, bacon, ranch and chicken.
Those four ingredients are undoubtedly going to be in the recipe if it’s a crack chicken recipe. So, if you’re sitting here wondering how do you make crack chicken, throw those four things in a dish and you’re 99% on your way.
You see, crack chicken has become kind of a way of life for recipe “starters” in the Sorensen family.
I have mastered the Instant Pot Crack Chicken, and my Crockpot Crack Chicken Pasta has become super popular and you’ll also see the same familiar ingredients in this Crack Chicken Sandwich Recipe.
But, this crack chicken recipe is different in that it’s kind of a finger food. A Crack Chicken appetizer that’s not a dip per sé.
These are a super favorite among my family and for good reason – because they contain everything that kids and adults love all rolled up into one bundle of happiness.
Ready to give this Crack Chicken Crescent Roll Recipe Finger Rollups a try? Here’s how I whip these up:
Crack Chicken Appetizer Chicken Finger Rollups
Ingredients:
- 1 tube of Pillsbury Crescent Rolls (8 ct)
- Ranch Salad Dressing (enough to put a three inch line of dressing on 8 crescent rolls) *** If your family likes Buffalo sauce flavor, use Buffalo sauce — this is the original way I make these fro adults, but adapted the recipe for my kiddos who don’t love spicy. 🙂
- 8 Tyson Crispy Chicken Fingers
- 4 slices cooked bacon cut in half
- 8 Cheddar Cheese slices (1 inch by 3 inch is perfect but use the real stuff please!)
- 2 T Butter
What I Have Learned Making These
The chicken fingers go on uncooked. They bake right along with the crescent roll, and everything finishes together in the same eighteen minutes.
Start rolling from the wide end of the crescent triangle. The point ends up wrapped around the outside, so the bacon and cheese stay tucked in instead of leaking out.
The melted butter goes on after they come out of the oven, not before. Brushing the warm tops is what gives them that shiny, golden, dinner-roll finish.
Can I make these with Buffalo sauce?
Yes, and honestly that is the original version. I made these with Buffalo sauce for the adults first, then swapped in ranch for my kiddos who do not love spicy.
Are these just an appetizer?
They are called an appetizer, but I serve them as dinner all the time. A chicken finger, bacon, and cheese wrapped in a crescent roll is a full meal in my book.
Cheese, bacon, ranch, and chicken, all rolled into one warm bundle. The plate empties fast, and nobody at the table cares whether you call it an appetizer or dinner.
Crack Chicken Appetizer Chicken Finger Rollups
Ingredients
- 1 tube of Pillsbury Crescent Rolls 8 ct
- Ranch Salad Dressing enough to put a three inch line of dressing on 8 crescent rolls *** If your family likes Buffalo sauce flavor, use Buffalo sauce -- this is the original way I make these for adults, but adapted the recipe for my kiddos who don't love spicy. 🙂
- 8 Tyson Crispy Chicken Fingers
- 4 slices cooked bacon cut in half
- 8 Cheddar Cheese slices 1 inch by 3 inch is perfect but use the real stuff please!
- 2 T Butter
Instructions
- On an ungreased cookie sheet lay out crescent rolls
- Starting on the wider end, top each crescent roll with an uncooked chicken finger, slice of bacon, strip of cheddar cheese, line of ranch dressing
- Roll crescent rolls from the wider side into the thinner side until they form a roll
- Bake at 375 degrees for 18 minutes
- Remove from oven, brush tops of crescent rolls with melted butter