Bake up a basket of these homemade Vanilla Honey Butter Crescent Rolls made from scratch for your next family dinner or for the holidays.

Depending on how long you’ve been reading my blog, you may or may not know that I cook dinner by myself every night. That’s where the inspiration for a lot of my small scale recipes comes from because I only have one mouth to feed. However once in awhile, I do cook for others. Sometimes on the weekends I end up cooking for my parents and brother, which gives me the opportunity to make a full meal complete with side dishes because I know it’ll all be eaten. This includes recipes like fresh bread where leftovers don’t taste as great the next day. Most of the time I’ll make it from scratch because I love how therapeutic kneading dough is, although once in awhile if we are out all day before dinner, I’ll pick up a fresh loaf from a local bakery (in those cases I’ll at least make some herb butter to go with it). Usually I make my honey butter dinner rolls to go with soup or pasta as it’s a family favorite, but with the holidays coming up, I decided to dress them up and make Vanilla Honey Butter Crescent Rolls. After all, you can’t have a holiday meal without a side of bread.
You’re probably familiar with crescent rolls from a can where you pop it open, roll up the dough, and bake. These crescent rolls are just like that but made from scratch and taste 1000 times better because they are fresh and made with love. As if that wasn’t enough, I slathered them with vanilla honey butter on top complete with specks of vanilla bean. Imagine serving a warm basket of these soft and fluffy crescent rolls with a touch of sweetness on top. You’ll never buy canned dough again.

When you think vanilla, did you instantly think of dessert? If you haven’t tried vanilla in savory dishes yet, you’re missing out because vanilla can lend itself very well when balancing other flavors. In my crescent rolls, I used Nielsen-Massey Madagascar Bourbon vanilla extract and vanilla beans, which have a sweet, creamy flavor with velvety after-tones, making it ideal as an all-purpose vanilla. If you’re not sure where to begin, check out this vanilla pairing chart for more ideas on how to use vanilla in savory cooking.

Turning the dough into crescent rolls may seem fancy, but I promise you it’s not. Roll the dough into a circle, cut the circle into triangles, then roll up the triangles. The hardest part for me was not having enough counter space to roll out the dough, so I used a wooden board on my kitchen table. Seriously, who designs a kitchen with a counter that’s not very big? Remind me to put larger counters on my wish list next time I move.

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Vanilla Honey Butter Crescent Rolls
Ingredients
Vanilla Honey Butter
Instructions
Vanilla Honey Butter
Source: Crescent roll dough adapted from Taste Of Home Fall Baking
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annie says
Gahhhh I love honey and butter slathered together. This is the kind of recipe that keeps on giving because you can use that vanilla honey butter on so many other things besides these cute little rolls. Pinning right now!
Courtney @ NeighborFood says
Love and vanilla–the two best ingredients for homemade crescent rolls! These would definitely steal the show at our Thanksgiving table!
Anita at Hungry Couple says
Honey vanilla butter on fresh made bread? Pfft, I’m SO in!
Julie @ Julie's Eats & Treats says
Oh my goodness! Look at those. They are perfect. I hope my holidays include these!
Catherine says
Dear Carla, I pinned these because I cannot wait to try them…they look beautiful and the honey vanilla butter sounds lovely. I know this will be a hit with the family. Perfect for the holidays too. xo, Catherine
Kayle (The Cooking Actress) says
oh my lord these rolls look heavenly! I love the flecks of vanilla!
Lauren @ Healthy Delicious says
These are absolutely gorgeous, Carla!! I’m definitely going to make them for Thanksgiving (I can’t wait!)
Jennie @onesweetmess says
These look 1000x better than the pop-and-bake rolls. I can’t stop staring at those gorgeous rolls!
Susan says
I love the vanilla addition to these rolls. I bet it smells amazing too when you bake it up. Plus crescent rolls, how can you refuse?
Lori @ Foxes Love Lemons says
Those flecks of vanilla in the honey butter! Oh my gosh. Pass me the basket, please.