Air Fryer Sausage Crescent Bundles are a deliciously easy appetizer or brunch addition. These bite-sized treats consist of ground breakfast sausage, cream cheese, and pepper jelly all wrapped in a buttery piece of crescent dough.

Air Fryer Sausage Crescent Bundles on a plate.

Ingredients

Only 4 ingredients needed to make these delicious bite-sized treats.

Breakfast Sausage– use Hot breakfast sausage if you want these crescent bundles to have some heat.
Crescent Dough or a Crescent Sheet– a crescent sheet is better. If you use crescent dough, you will have to press on the perforations to seal them.
Cream Cheese– adds a little creamy goodness for the filling. You will just need a sliver for each one.
Red Pepper Jelly– adds a little sweetness and spiciness. You can use green pepper jelly instead and mango chutney or strawberry preserves would also work well.

Crescent dough cut into squares. — Cut crescent dough into squares.

Place sausage, cream cheese and pepper jelly on each dough pieces and then bring the corners up and over the filling, pressing to seal.

How To Make Air Fryer Sausage Crescent Bundles

Cook the sausage. Brown and crumble the sausage in a nonstick skillet and then let cool.
Prepare dough. Unroll crescent dough. If not using a crescent sheet, press on the perforations to seal. Use a pizza wheel or knife to cut 4 rows on the short end and 5 rows on the long end so that you get 20 roughly equal pieces of dough.
Assemble. Place a small amount of sausage on each crescent piece. Top with a small sliver of cream cheese, and small dollop of red pepper jelly. Pull the corners of the crescent dough up and over the filling, pressing to seal.
Air fry. Preheat air fryer to 330. Spray basket with oil and air fry in batches for 5 to 7 minutes.

Recipe Tips

Do not crowd the air fryer basket. Cook in batches.
Use air fryer cook time as an estimate. Different brands and models cook at different rates
To make this recipe spicier, use “Hot” breakfast sausage.

Crescents stuffed with sausage on a plate.

Storage

Best eaten shortly after they are made but they will keep for 3 days in an airtight container in the refrigerator. Reheat in air fryer before serving.

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Air Fryer Sausage Crescent Bundles

Prep Time20

Active Time7

Total Time27

Course: Appetizer

Yield: sausage bundles

Calories: 94kcal

Equipment

Materials

½ pound breakfast sausage
1 (8-count) tube crescent dough or a crescent sheet
3 ounces cream cheese
2 tablespoons red pepper jelly

Instructions

Brown and crumble the sausage in a nonstick skillet. Let cool.
Remove the crescent dough from the tube and unroll. Press on the perforations to seal. (No need to do this if using a crescent sheet.) Use a rolling pin to roll it out a little.
Use a pizza wheel or knife to cut the dough into 4 rows along the short end and 5 rows along the wide end.
Place a small mound of sausage on each crescent piece.
Cut the cream cheese into 20 slivers and place a sliver on top of each sausage mound.
Use a spoon to place a small amount of pepper jelly on top of each one.
Pull the corners of the crescent dough up and over the filling and pinch to seal.
Preheat the air fryer to 330 degrees for a few minutes.
Spray basket with oil and place half the crescent bundles in the basket. Air fry for 5 to 7 minutes.
Repeat with second batch.

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