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Easy palmier cookies
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5 from 4 votes

Easy Palmiers Recipe

Use crescent roll dough to make 2-ingredient palmiers! This easy recipe can be done with regular sugar or dress them up with rainbow sugar!
Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time10 minutes
Total Time40 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 24 palmiers
Calories: 37kcal
Author: Dorothy Kern
Cost: $5

Ingredients

  • 1 tube Pillsbury Crescent Roll Dough 8 rolls
  • 2 tablespoons granulated sugar plus a few pinches

Instructions

  • Open Crescent Rolls and unroll dough.
  • Press all the seams together to seal. Sprinkle 1-2 teaspoons of granulated sugar over one side of the crescent rectangle, press lightly with you hands to adhere. Gently flip over the rectangle. Sprinkle 1-2 tablespoons of sugar on the other side. Roll up each side so that the two rolls meet in the middle. Wrap in plastic and chill for at least 1 hour.
  • Preheat oven to 375°F. Line two cookie sheets with silpat baking mats, parchment paper, or grease them with cooking spray. (These will stick if you don’t do one of those three things!)
  • Slice the dough 1/2” thick. Place on cookie sheets, 2” apart. Bake for 10-20 minutes, until the bottoms start to get golden. Let cool on cookie sheet for just a few minutes, then run a spatula underneath so the melted sugar doesn’t stick.
  • Rainbow Palmiers: Place the rectangle so that the width is longer than the height. Sprinkle sugars in vertical rows in the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. Roll up each side so that the two rolls meet in the middle. Wrap in plastic and chill for at least 1 hour.

Notes

  • To use puff pastry: thaw the frozen puff pastry as directed on the box. Proceed with the same directions as above, except bake at 400°F.
  • You can use any color sugar inside that you like.

Nutrition

Serving: 1palmier | Calories: 37kcal | Carbohydrates: 5g | Protein: 0.3g | Fat: 2g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.3g | Sodium: 73mg | Potassium: 0.02mg | Sugar: 2g | Calcium: 0.01mg | Iron: 0.1mg