Cream Cheese Sausage & Egg Breakfast Braid

Cream Cheese Sausage & Egg Breakfast Braid

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Ingredients:

  • 1 can refrigerated crescent roll dough
  • 1 pound Jimmie Dean breakfast sausage
  • 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
  • 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
  • 6 eggs
  • Heavy cream
  • Salt & pepper to taste 

Directions 

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Cook sausage & drain fat.  Pour back into skillet and mix well with cream cheese.  

Whisk eggs, salt, pepper & heavy cream.  Scramble slowly on low heat. 

Roll out dough vertically onto baking sheet.  Spread scrambled eggs down the center.  Top with ¾ of the sausage mixture.  Top with ¾ of the cheese. 

Cut 10 slits on each side of the dough.  To braid, lift strips of dough across filling to meet in center.  Continue alternating to form a braid.  Bake 20 minutes.  Remove from oven & top with remaining sausage & cheese.  Bake 10 more minutes.

 

I also make this at Christmas time in a candy cane shape!