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Easy Meatball Crescent Cups

Easy Meatball Crescent CupsOne of my favorite things about Facebook today is the timelapse recipe videos. Everything looks so delicious! While I’m always excited to try new recipes, the videos make it easy for me to follow the steps and see what the dish will look like from start to finish. That’s why I was excited to see the video recipe for Cheesy Meatball Bites on the Butter With A Side Of Bread’s Facebook Page.

We love meatball sandwiches around here and I thought this looked like a delicious twist. You can watch the recipe video here.

I gave the recipe a try and we liked it all so much, I made it twice in two days! I tweaked it a bit to suit our tastes as you’ll see below by removing a step and adding more of everything except the meatballs.

This recipe is simple, flavorful, and delicious and can be enjoyed year round. I’ve added it to our list of favorites and Dave and the kids are already asking me to make it again!

Easy Meatball Crescent Cups

Easy Meatball Crescent Cups

Ingredients

  • 2 cans (8 oz) of refrigerated crescent rolls
  • 1 cup of pasta or pizza sauce
  • 1 cup of shredded mozzarella cheese
  • 24 frozen meatballs

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Spray two large muffin tins with cooking spray.
  2. Open the crescent rolls and place one triangle in each muffin cup folding it to cover the bottom and pressing it lightly around the sides for a good fit. Some of the crescent roll dough may stick up above the cup.
  3. Place a large spoonful of pizza or spaghetti sauce in each muffin cup on top of the dough. We found the more sauce the better.
  4. Sprinkle a generous amount of shredded cheese on top of the sauce in each cup. As with the sauce, we found the more cheese we added the better it was.
  5. Put on meatball in the center of each cup and top with more shredded cheese.
  6. Place tins in the oven for 10 minutes and remove wwhen crescent rolls are lightly browned.
  7. Serve warm and enjoy!

This amount is great for a family of four or more. You can cut the recipe in half for one muffin tin. While we didn’t have many leftovers, I couldn’t figure out how to reheat the ones we did have without them turning a bit soggy. They are still delicious, but need to be eaten with a fork and knife. If anyone has tips on how to prevent this, I’m all ears. Thanks!

Also if you are looking for more great recipes, check out our recipe page and I also highly recommend the Butter With A Side of Bread Facebook Page – she has tons of great recipes!

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Comments

  4. Yummy, I was hungry just reading the recipe. It’s also so super easy, this is going to the top of my list of recipes to try now.

  5. Oh my these look so amazing and would be so great for our next barbeque as appetizers. Thanks for posting! :)

  8. Great recipe, you can use it for so many different occasions from parties to a family dinner. Really takes a lot of the mess out of regular meatball dishes. Kids can just have their own little cup. Thanks so much for sharing.

  9. These would make a great appetizer! We like having a quick snack also on weekends and my kids would love these.

  13. I’m always looking for new ideas of foods to take to parties and I know they family would love these. The kids could help make them they look so good will have to pin it!

  21. Oh yum! These look so delicious and fun to make. My kids would love to make these and eat them for a snack. Thanks for the recipe.

  24. any time I use crescent rolls in my dinner creations the kids love it, we’ll be trying your recipe real soon