A Chocolate Peppermint Cruffin is crescent roll dough spread with chocolate peppermint butter, rolled, cut, and baked in a muffin tin.Then, each cruffin is rolled into a cocoa and sugar mixture.If you prefer cinnamon and sugar, check out my Cruffins recipe.

Chocolate Peppermint Cruffin A cruffin is a cross between a croissant and a muffin that is rolled up like a cinnamon roll.It’s a buttery, flaky dessert that is easier to make than it looks.Peppermint seems to be a part of the holidays, and these chocolate peppermint cruffins are no exception.

In addition to the chocolate peppermint butter, I rolled each cruffin in more cocoa powder and sugar.They look fancy, but they are easy to make! Ingredients & Substitutions Dough: Look for three tubes of crescent roll dough for this recipe.The dough I bought was in sheets without any perforations.

However, you could use the original perforated crescent roll sheets; just be sure to pinch the seams together.If preferred, you could make homemade dough to use in these cruffins.Or, use the dough that I make for my Apple Turnovers.

Cocoa Powder: In both the filling and the topping, I used regular unsweetened cocoa powder.You could use Dutch-processed cocoa powder if that is all you have on hand, but there will be a bit of a different flavor.Chocolate Chips: Use semi-sweet chocolate chips in the chocolate peppermint butter.

You can easily swap out with milk chocolate or even white chocolate.Peppermint E

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