Buffalo Chicken Baseballs are made with buttery crescent rolls wrapped around a creamy buffalo chicken filling and baked until golden brown. They make a great dinner option for busy weeknight and the whole family loves them!
❤️ Why you'll love it
Buffalo flavors: fans of buffalo wings will love the buffalo flavors in the creamy chicken filling.
Easy chicken dinner: you will love to have this recipe on file if you are always looking for tasty chicken recipes to make for dinner, or to make with leftover chicken.
🥘 Ingredients
Leftover chicken: I like to use leftover rotisserie chicken that I've made myself, but you can also buy it from the grocery store.
Crescent roll dough: I only use Pillsbury, there is a difference in quality in my opinion and these work best.
Reduced fat cream cheese: also called ⅓ less fat cream cheese, I recommend Philadelphia brand.
Hot sauce: Your favorite hot sauce will work. I have used Red Hot and Texas Pete. Both are good.
Cilantro: this is optional, if you are adverse to cilantro, just leave it out.
Worcestershire sauce: just a little bit to enhance the flavor of the filling.
Milk: you need just enough milk to loosen the filling up a little bit.
🔪 Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, using a hand mixer on medium speed, mix together the hot sauce and cream cheese together until creamy.
- Add worcestershire sauce and milk. Once incorporated stir in chopped chicken and cilantro (if using). Set aside.
- Open can of crescent rolls and separate the four rectangles from each other. Do not separate the rectangles into the triangles.
- Using a rolling pin, roll out one of the rectangles to flatten and stretch it out more, pinching seams together to prevent holes as you roll.
- Place ½ cup chicken mixture in the center of dough and then pull opposite corners over the filling and pinch together to seal.
- Place on parchment lined cookie sheet and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Repeat with remaining 3 sections of dough.
- Bake at 350 for 25 minutes, or until golden brown.
🥄 Equipment
Baking sheet: if using a cookie sheet, line it with parchment paper. I used a baking stone and did not need parchment paper.
Large bowl: to mix the filling
Rolling pin: to roll out the crescent dough
Measuring cups: you will use the ½ cup measure to scoop the filling onto the dough.
🥫Storage
Refrigerate: store any leftover buffalo chicken baseballs in the fridge in an airtight container up to 4 days.
Reheat: reheat in a 300 degree oven for 10 minutes or in the microwave until warmed through.
📖 Variations
- Use a reduced fat crescent roll for a lower fat and calorie version
- Stir 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese into the cream cheese filling
- Add 1 diced jalapeno for additional heat.
📚 Related Recipes
Bacon, Egg and Cheese Breakfast Strudels are a great crescent wrapped recipe perfect for Sunday brunch.
Caramel Apple Cheese Danish is a braided sweet roll for breakfast made with crescent dough, caramel, apples, and cheese filling.
If you love these Buffalo Chicken Baseballs, they you must try the original recipe with a creamy mushroom chicken stuffed crescent!
🍽 Serve with...
This chicken recipe makes a delicious main dish with a green side salad and blue cheese dressing.
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📖 Recipe
Buffalo Chicken Baseballs
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Ingredients
- 8 ounces crescent roll dough (8 crescent rolls/can)
- 2 cups diced cooked chicken
- 5 ounces ⅓ less fat cream cheese , softened
- 2 tablespoons hot sauce
- 3 dashes worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon milk
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, using a hand mixer on medium speed, mix together the hot sauce and cream cheese together until creamy. Add worcestershire sauce and milk.
- Once incorporated stir in chopped chicken and cilantro (if using). Set aside.
- Open can of crescent rolls and separate the four rectangles from each other. Do not separate the rectangles into the triangles.
- Using a rolling pin, roll out one of the rectangles to flatten and stretch it out more, pinching seams together to prevent holes as you roll.
- Place ½ cup chicken mixture in the center of dough and then pull opposite corners over the filling and pinch together to seal.
- Place chicken baseball on parchment lined cookie sheet and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Repeat with remaining 3 sections of dough.
- Bake at 350 for 20 minutes, or until golden brown.
honeyb says
Well that looks doable enough to use Tabasco instead of Red Hot, since Kevin doesn't like it. Looks like the boys/man would like those baseballs.
Mads says
Oh man, this looks like a dude-friendly recipe. I think I'll print this one out for Jonathan's sake. Nummy!
sirwinstontheintrepid says
I made these for dinner tonight and they were a hit! Thank you for always sharing so many wonderful recipes!
Chef Dennis says
wow!! you could you pitch a few of those beauties over my plate!
Courtney says
ok, YUM!
BigBearswife says
ooo yum! I bet these taste amazing!
Lesa @Edesia's Notebook says
How appropriate posting chicken baseballs the day the World Series starts!
honeyb says
Well throw me a couple of fast balls of those! 😉 I'll bet some boys around here would like those.
Mari says
This looks delicious! I love the fact this can done in minutes with the Pillsbury crescent rolls.