Name: Deer Sausage Cranberry Cream Cheese Bites
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Ingredients: 1 8-ounce tube crescent rolls; 3 ounces breakfast deer sausage, cooked and crumbled; 4 ounces cream cheese; 1/3 cup whole berry cranberry sauce

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Deer Sausage Cranberry Cream Cheese Bites

These Deer Sausage Cranberry Cream Cheese Bites are one of the best Christmas appetizers with the perfect combination of sweet and savory.

After hanging Christmas lights, wrapping gifts, and helping Saint Nicholas stuff those stockings, it's hard to find the energy to make something fancy for house guests - let alone a holiday work party. It's easy to understand why cranberry cheese bites have become such a popular party appetizer during the holidays. They're the perfect size for nibbling and foolproof. This is one of my favorite Christmas appetizers because it includes just four ingredients: my homemade breakfast deer sausage, a tube of crescent roll dough, cream cheese, and cranberry sauce.

HOW TO MAKE CRANBERRY CREAM CHEESE BITES

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Then unroll the crescent rolls onto a large cutting board and gently press the seams together.

2. Cut the dough into 24 squares. Place each square into a cup of a mini muffin tin.

3. Place 1 teaspoon of the cooked and crumbled deer sausage in each of the dough-filled muffin tin cups.

4. Cut the cream cheese into 24 small pieces. Place a piece of the cream cheese on top of the sausage. Then top each with about a teaspoon of cranberry sauce. Then bake for 10 minutes or until the dough is golden brown and the cheese and cranberry sauce are bubbly.

5. Immediately remove the bites from the muffin tin. Serve warm.

MORE CHRISTMAS APPETIZERS USING DEER SAUSAGE

If you are looking for more Christmas appetizers, check out my popular Deer Crescent Roll Ring or my Deer Sausage Cheese Balls.

I hope this Deer Sausage Cranberry Cream Cheese Bites Recipe and my other venison recipes will give you inspiration and motivation you need to get excited about sharing some of the wild game with family and friends this holiday season.

If you are headed our way for North Dakota deer season, check out the North Dakota Game & Fish Department website. And if you want me to come along with you as your camp cook, photographer, or butcher, you can find out more details here.

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Course: Appetizer, Snack

Cuisine: American

Keyword: christmas appetizers, christmas recipe, cranberry cream cheese bites, cranberry sauce, cream cheese, deer sausage

Prep Time: 5

Cook Time: 10

Total Time: 15

Servings: bites

Author: Jeff Benda

Ingredients

1 8-ounce tube crescent rolls
3 ounces breakfast deer sausage, cooked and crumbled
4 ounces cream cheese
⅓ cup whole berry cranberry sauce

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 F.
Unroll the crescent rolls onto a large cutting board and gently press the seams together.
Cut the dough into 24 squares. Place each square into a cup of a mini muffin tin.
Place 1 teaspoon of the cooked and crumbled venison sausage in each of the dough-filled muffin tin cups.
Cut the cream cheese into 24 small pieces. Place a piece of the cream cheese on top of the sausage. Then top each with about a teaspoon of cranberry sauce.
Bake for 10 minutes or until the dough is golden brown and the cheese and cranberry sauce are bubbly.
Immediately remove the bites from the muffin tin. Serve warm.

Deer Sausage Cranberry Cream Cheese Bites