It’s blueberry season in Minnesota. The end of July brings many families out to the blueberry patches to pick enough blueberries to last until next season. I remember being forced to do this as a child. My mom would give us Kemp’s ice cream buckets with a round hole cut in the top, we would drive down some minimum maintenance roads out to some super secret blueberry grounds. Then she would sit us down in a sea of blueberry bushes, and we would be expected to fill that Kemp’s bucket up at least once. I was never very good at this; I have a short attention span and am not necessarily a fan of tedious work. My bucket contained a lot of leaves and sticks, and I probably ate more blueberries than what was good for me. Go figure, Dana was better at it, and she continues to go blueberry picking every year. Luckily for me, this year she was willing to share some of her blueberry profit with her favorite sister! I was sort of shocked when she gave me a quart sized bag filled with those precious little frozen balls of blue gold. I remember my mom being really stingy with her blueberries; she would even skip making blueberry pie because “they use too many blueberries and you never know what the blueberry season will be like next year.” So anyway, Dana gave me some of her blueberries without a fight, and I decided to make a childhood favorite, blueberry crescent rolls, with them. These are ridiculously easy. Here’s what you need:
Start by popping open the can (I don’t know why, but I love this part),and unroll the eight triangles. Now just sprinkle some blueberries on each triangle, sort of pressing the blueberries into the dough to keep them from rolling away later.
Then just loosely roll up the triangles, starting at the wide end, and set them on a ungreased baking sheet. I also sprinkled mine with a tiny bit of sugar.
Bake them at 350 for about 13 minutes, or until they’re golden brown.
Enjoy!
- 1 can Pillsbury Grands Crescent rolls
- ⅓ cup blueberries
- 1 T sugar
- Unroll the crescent dough, septarate into 8 triangles
- Sprinkle blueberries on each triangle, press blueberries down slightly
- Roll up each triangle, starting with the wide end, sprinkle with sugar, place on ungreased baking sheet
- Bake at 350 for about 13 minutes, until golden brown
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