These yummy sweet treats
are a quick-fix when you're craving something warm and chocolatey
thanks to ready-to-use refrigerated crescent dinner rolls.
Chocolate
Quickie Stickies
- 8 tablespoons butter or
margarine - divided use
- 3/4 cup packed light brown
sugar
- 4 tablespoons HERSHEY'S
Cocoa - divided use
- 5 teaspoons water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup coarsely chopped
nuts (optional)
- 2 (8-ounce each) cans
refrigerated quick crescent dinner rolls
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- Heat oven to 350°F
(175°C).
- Melt 6 tablespoons butter
in small saucepan over low heat; add brown sugar, 3 tablespoons
cocoa and water. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly,
just until mixture comes to boil.
- Remove from heat; stir
in vanilla. Spoon about 1 teaspoonful chocolate mixture into
each of 48 small muffin cups (1 3/4-inches in diameter).
- Sprinkle 1/2 teaspoon
nuts, if desired, into each cup; set aside.
- Unroll dough; separate
into 8 rectangles; firmly press perforations to seal.
- Melt remaining 2 tablespoons
butter; brush over rectangles.
- Stir together granulated
sugar and remaining 1 tablespoon cocoa; sprinkle over all rectangles.
Starting at longer side, roll up each rectangle; pinch seams
to seal. Cut each roll into 6 equal pieces. Press gently into
prepared pans, cut-side down.
- Bake 11 to 13 minutes
or until light brown. Remove from oven; cool 30 seconds. Invert
onto cookie sheet. Let stand 1 minute; remove pans. Serve warm
or cool completely.
Makes 4 dozen small rolls.
Note: Rolls can be baked
in two 8-inch round baking pans. Heat oven to 350°F (175°C).
Cook chocolate mixture as directed; place half in each pan. Prepare
rolls as directed; place 24 pieces, cut-side down, in each pan.
Bake 20 to 22 minutes. Cool and remove from pans, as directed
above.
Recipe courtesy of the Hershey Kitchens,
and reprinted with permission of The Hershey Company. ©
The Hershey Company.