Maple Cream Cheese Sausage Puffs

I found this recipe on the back of a tube of Jimmy Dean Maple Pork Sausage.

• Ready In: 28 mins
• Yields: 16 Puffs

Ingredients

• 1 (12 ounce) package  maple pork sausage (bulk)
• 1  cup  finely chopped cooking apple (Fuji)
•  salt and pepper
• 1 (3 ounce) package  quality soft cream cheese
• 2  cans  refrigerated crescent dinner rolls

Directions

1. Brown sausage in a dry skillet over a low to medium flame.
2. When the sausage starts to brown, add chopped apple.
3. Stir fry until sausage is thoroughly browned.
4. Season with salt and black pepper to taste.
5. Drain excess juice, transfer sausage filling to a bowl.
6. Add cream cheese to the warm filling and mix well.
7. Separate crescent rolls into triangles and place one tablespoon of filling on wide edge of triangle.
8. Roll wide edge of dough towards the “point” of the triangle, enveloping the filling.
9. Fold edges of dough over so that filling is completely enclosed with dough.
10. Bake at 375 degrees for 11-13 minutes or until golden brown.