Hot & Spicy Buffalo Cream Cheese Bites

Buffalo Cream Cheese Bites

(makes 8-10 dinner roll-sized bites)

(served 3 people with no side dishes)

(makes enough filling for a 'leftover' based meal as well!)

4 chicken breasts

1 cup + a couple shakes of hot sauce 

(we prefer Frank's Red Hot)

1/2 cup butter

1 tbs minced garlic

1 pkt ranch dressing seasoning

4 oz (1/2 pkg) of cream cheese

1 roll of ready to bake crescents

     First you will need to boil the chicken breasts until they are able to be pulled/shredded. I used my crock pot for this, which made it very easy because I just put them in (still frozen even) with a couple cups of water and a couple shakes of hot sauce and turned it to low early in the morning and they were ready to go when I was ready to make dinner. The buffalo sauce will need to be started about an hour before you are ready to cook. Put your cup of hot sauce, the butter, and the garlic in a small saucepan (or if you have one, I used my Little Dipper sauce crock pot). Cook over medium heat (or just plug in Little Dipper...there is only one setting...ON, lol), stirring occasionally. After 30 minutes, cut the cream cheese into pieces (easier to melt) and add to the mix. Continue cooking for another 30 minutes, still stirring occasionally. 

    When all of the above steps are complete, shred your chicken and put it in a medium sized mixing bowl. Add to it the packet of ranch seasoning and all of the buffalo sauce you made and mix until all the chicken is thoroughly coated. Your mixture should be pretty thick at this point; if it is not, drain some of the sauce out of your bowl. Line a baking pan with aluminum foil. Begin to roll your crescents, putting a spoonful of your chicken mix inside each and doing your best to close them up at the top however you see fit. (Some of them I rolled like stuffed crescents, others I pulled the edges in and around like a bowl that is pinched together on top. It doesn't really matter how you close them, as long as the chicken mix can be considered 'inside'.) Place your stuffed goodies evenly spaced on the baking sheet. Bake for 12 minutes and they are ready to pop in your now watering mouth. ;) We didn't even need hot sauce or ranch to dip, and that is saying something from our house!!

   After stuffing your crescents you will have about one small to medium sized bowl of chicken mix left. I plan on using mine for some of my household-famous Buffalo Pasta (which should be on here tomorrow lmao, Ryan loves anything buffalo flavored lol), which cut down the cost of grocery bill this week as we are now getting 2 meals from one main product/prep time!

Hope you love 'em! They were super easy and DELICIOUS! :D