First published March 5, 2022. Last updated April 14, 2025 for editorial improvements.
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Crescent roll taco pizza: because dinner shouldn’t require a spreadsheet, a prayer circle, or a second dishwasher. This 30-minute wonder is fast, fabulous, and flexible—serve it as an app, a snack, or a low-effort main dish with all your favorite taco toppings. It’s the hero you need after a long day of doing everything, and the best part? Hardly any dishes. Boom.
🧾 Ingredients
🔪 Instructions
- Unroll the crescent rolls but don't separate. Press dough into baking pan. Bake until golden brown and let cool.
- Cook the beef and add the taco seasoning.
- Mix the cream cheese, sour cream, and more taco seasoning.
- Spread the cream cheese on the cooled crust then layer the rest of the ingredients over it. Finish with a drizzle of taco sauce.
📖 Recipe
Easy Taco Crescent Roll Pizza Recipe
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- 16 ounces crescent dough, from the refrigerated section
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- ½ cup sour cream
- 2 ounces taco seasoning
- 1 pound ground beef
- 2 cups Cheddar, shredded
- 1 cup lettuce, shredded
- ¾ cup tomatoes, diced
- ⅓ cup cilantro, chopped
- ⅓ cup taco sauce
- black olives,avocado, black beans, onions, jalapeno peppers, Optional
Instructions
- Heat oven to 375 degrees.
- Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Unroll the crescent dough sheets and place on the baking sheet.
- Bake for 10 minutes or until lightly golden.
- Remove from the oven and cool 5 minutes.
- While the crust is cooling, cook beef in a heavy skillet until browned.
- Drain the fat if needed and add in one packet of taco seasoning and ¼ cup of water.
- Cook for 5 more minutes, stirring often.
- Remove from heat.
- Put the cream cheese in a microwave safe bowl and soften in the microwave for a minute or two.
- Add the sour cream, and one packet of taco seasoning to the softened cream cheese.
- Beat together until blended and smooth.
- Spread the cream cheese mixture over the crust and top with the taco meat.
- Drizzle with the taco sauce.
- Top the pizza with the cheese, shredded lettuce, tomatoes, cilantro and optional ingredients of choice.
- Cut into 12 pieces and serve.
Notes
- Be sure your baked crescent roll crust is cool before adding the rest of the ingredients or the cream cheese layer will melt.
- Wait to put the vegetables on top until just before serving.
Nutrition Facts
Nutrition information is estimated as a courtesy. If using for medical purposes, please verify information using your own nutritional calculator. Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
This recipe has been tested several times. If you choose to use other ingredients, or change the technique in some way, the results may not be the same.
📖 Variations
- Use grilled chicken instead of taco meat.
- Add refried beans, black beans, or pinto beans.
- Spoon guacamole on top.
- Black olives are a delicious addition.
- Corn, especially roasted corn, works really well on this.
- Use Catalina dressing instead of taco sauce to drizzle over the top.
- You could make this with pizza dough if you prefer.
- Sprinkle chopped green onion over the top.
You might want to try this sausage and gravy breakfast pizza with a crescent roll crust. It's perfect for back to school!
💭 Tips
Expert Tip: The refrigerated crescent rolls work better for this recipe than the crescent rolls sheets.
- Be sure your baked crescent roll crust is cool before adding the rest of the ingredients or the cream cheese layer will melt.
- This is best eaten within a few hours of making. The crust gets a little soggy the next day.
- Easy taco pizza makes a great appetizer when you cut it in small slices.
- Wait to put the vegetables on top until just before serving.
👩🍳 FAQs
You can! I don't like the texture of them as well in the finished pizza but you can certainly use them.
Sure! Some stores do carry gluten free crescent roll dough, or use gluten free biscuit or pizza dough (Pillsbury has one).
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Nancy Smith says
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