146 refrigerated recipes

Mini apple pies use refrigerated biscuit dough as a fast pastry shortcut. Each rolled biscuit wraps a tablespoon of cinnamon-sugar apple-raisin filling and bakes in muffin cups. Ten warm hand pies in 15 minutes.

Mushroom cheeseburger pizza piles seasoned ground beef and mushrooms over a par-baked refrigerated pizza crust, topped with melted cheddar. Easy weeknight family dinner ready in 40 minutes.

Flat cat cookies, the gleefully gruesome Halloween treat. Roll out refrigerated sugar cookie dough, cut roadkill cat shapes, add red candy eyes and a drizzle of jam blood. Easy enough for kids.

With fresh seasonal vegetables and phyllo pastry, these tarts come out beautiful and delicious. We like asparagus and green onions, feel free to use any fresh green vegetables that you have on hand.

These deliciously cheesy tartlets are great at many occasions. Handy appetizer or tasty breakfast. Make them in advance, put in the refrigerator or freezer, reheat before eating them; so these yummy tartlets can be also served at lunch or dinner.

Peanut butter crescents wrap refrigerated crescent rolls around a brown sugar peanut butter filling, then drizzle them with a peanut butter glaze. Eight rolls in 35 minutes from a single tube of dough. Quick breakfast pastry win.

Easy runzas made with crescent roll dough, ground beef, cabbage, and onion soup mix. A shortcut version of the classic Nebraska meat-and-cabbage pocket.

Quick cherry turnovers made with crescent roll dough and canned cherry pie filling. Three ingredients plus a simple powdered sugar glaze. Ready in 30 minutes from start to finish.

This is really a nice baked brie, especially with jalapeno. Big hit!

These beefy biscuit cups pack savory ground beef and spaghetti sauce into buttery biscuit shells topped with melted cheddar. A fun, hands-on dinner kids and adults both love.

Tiny cinnamon rolls made from crescent roll dough with cinnamon sugar filling and vanilla glaze. A 25-minute shortcut that bakes up bite-sized and tender.

Chicken breast wrapped in garlic-rubbed crescent roll dough and baked golden, then drizzled with a tangy brown sugar mustard sauce. An easy weeknight take on chicken en croute.

Dessert pizza built on a giant chocolate chip cookie crust, topped with whipped cream, fresh fruit, and strawberry dessert sauce. The 4-ingredient sweet pizza that rescues any last-minute potluck or birthday party.

Lemon bisque is a vintage no-bake dessert: whipped evaporated milk and lemon Jello layered between sweet graham cracker crumbs for a tangy, fluffy refrigerator cake.

Cheese Monkey Bread was a rage in the '60s and '70s, when bakeries in Los Angeles began selling it.

Quick chicken pot pie with creamy vegetable filling topped with golden biscuit pieces for a comforting weeknight dinner ready in 35 minutes using shortcuts.