Cold Veggie Pizza with Crescent Rolls (An Easy Appetizer)

Cold Veggie Pizza with Crescent Rolls is an easy, classic appetizer that everybody loves! Using crescent rolls for the crust and whichever fresh veggies you love the most plus cream cheese seasoned with Hidden Valley Ranch to hold it all together … you cannot go wrong! 

Originally posted January 2021 , updated July 2024.

Cold Veggie Pizza with Crescent Rolls

There are probably hundreds of online posts with variations of this Crescent Roll Veggie Pizza recipe, so today I’m going to share my favorite combination and give you lots of ideas for making it your own! 

This easy appetizer is a great way to use up fresh summer veggies from your garden! I’ve been making this easy recipe for years and it’s always one of my favorite finger foods.

Why You’ll Love This Crescent Roll Veggie Pizza

• Great make-ahead appetizer. Because it’s a cold veggie pizza appetizer, you can make it hours ahead of time or even a full day before you want to serve it. The fresh toppings will stay fresh as long as it’s stored well.
• It’s vegetarian – so it appeals to almost anybody in a hungry crowd.You can even change up the crescent roll pizza toppings and have different varieties for your guests (do one without onions or peppers for kids?!)
• Versatile. You can use your favorite veggies. You can use your favorite type of dressing mix or spread. You can make it a little healthier with a few substitutions.

Ingredients for Cold Veggie Pizza with Crescent Rolls

This great appetizer is so flexible and a great addition to any party spread. Here are the details on the ingredients you can use!

Crescent Rolls

You can use either regular canned crescent rolls or crescent roll sheets. I always make the veggie pizza with crescent rolls for the best flaky crust. Either way, you will need 2 cans of whichever you choose. I have seen a recipe that uses puff pastry but I haven’t ever tried that option!

As a side note, I always use Pillsbury crescent rolls – I’ve found off-brands to not be as good. I think I actually started making this as a result of a Pillsbury Veggie Pizza recipe I saw years ago.

Cream Cheese Spread

I’m calling this part the “cream cheese spread” for lack of a better name. It’s the “pizza sauce” of this cold pizza. And there are so many ways to make this part.

The base is spread is cream cheese. From there, most add sour cream. You could use mayonnaise or plain Greek yogurt if you don’t have sour cream. I’m going to beg you to not use Miracle Whip, but I guess if that’s your jam, go ahead. Just don’t tell me 😉

Unless I have some Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing (made from the Original Ranch Dry Seasoning). That’s my favorite! Or if I have homemade creamy ranch dressing. Then I’ve been known to skip the sour cream and/or mayo and use only ranch dressing and cream cheese. 

But my favorite is using the dry ranch dressing mix in combo with the cream cheese and sour cream. The dry mix is the best way to get Ranch flavor and my go-to when making this simple pizza. 

Can you tell that we’re big fans of Ranch Dressing? So much so that the kids sometimes call this a Ranch Veggie Pizza because we almost always use a ranch mixture.

But if you’re using sour cream and/or mayo… the sky is the limit on how you add flavor to the cream cheese spread. Here are a few of the things I’ve used over the years!

• Ranch Dressing
• Ranch Dip
• Blue Cheese Dressing
• Italian Dressing or Italian Dressing Mix
• Dry herbs and spices (dill weed, garlic powder, onion powder, parsley, etc.)

Want to skip all the mixing and such? Use a flavored cream cheese such as Chive & Onion Cream Cheese, Ranch Cream Cheese or Garden Vegetable Cream Cheese. You’ll still have a great recipe!

Vegetables

Fresh, Raw Vegetables. I’m very vanilla when it comes to vegetables that I actually like. So don’t let my picky palette limit you. In the full recipe below, I list all the things I used!

But here is a list of a variety of vegetables you could use and I’m sure I didn’t cover everything. As long as you’re using fresh, crunchy vegetables, your pizza will be perfect!

• Carrots
• Broccoli
• Cucumber
• Tomatoes (diced, or halved grape tomatoes)
• Bell Pepper (Green Bell Peppers or Red or Orange or Yellow) – I love having the addition of colorful vegetables!
• Radishes
• Green Onions
• Red Onion
• Black Olives
• Cauliflower
• Celery
• Scallions
• Spinach

Cheese

You will not see cheese in my recipe but when doing research for sharing this post, I found that lots of people do add shredded cheddar cheese or parmesan cheese to their cold veggie pizza.

It honestly sounds like a terrific idea, so if that appeals to you, go for it! And don’t be limited to cheddar. I imagine most any shredded cheese would be delicious!

How to Make a Cold Veggie Pizza

1. Preheat your oven to 375°F.
2.  First, let’s get the pizza crust made! Pop open the two cans of crescent rolls and separate them into four long rectangles. Press the crescent roll dough onto the bottom and up the sides of a large ungreased baking sheet (a 10×15 sheet pan is a good size). Press the seams together to make the crescent roll crust.

TIP: Line your pan with parchment paper or a silicone mat for a guaranteed easy clean-up!

3. Bake in a preheated oven for 13-15 minutes, or until golden brown. Allow the baked crescent dough crust cool completely. If you’re in a hurry, you can even pop it in the fridge to speed up the process! 
4. While the crust is cooling, let’s make the cream cheese spread and chop your veggies.
5. In a medium bowl, combine the cream cheese, sour cream and ranch dressing or dry ranch dressing mix. I like to mix it with a hand mixer to get it smooth and creamy. Set aside.
6. Chop or dice all of your vegetables into small bite-size pieces. Then toss them together.
7. Spread the softened cream cheese mixture onto the cooled crust. I like to have a pretty thick layer of ranch spread.
8. Sprinkle the chopped veggies on top of the cream cheese spread.
9. Cut the crescent veggie pizza into slices approximately 3-inches square. Serve immediately or cover and chill in the refrigerator until ready to eat! 😊

How to make a Healthier Cold Veggie Pizza Recipe

This vegetable pizza recipe is already loaded with fresh, raw vegetables, but if you want to make it healthier, there are several things you can swap out.

• Reduced Fat Crescent Rolls
• Light, low fat or fat-free cream cheese, sour cream, mayonaise and/or use greek yogurt for the cream cheese spread
• Low-fat shredded cheese

Serving Suggestions

This veggie pizza appetizer is perfect for family gatherings, summer cookouts, parties, snacks, potlucks, baby showers, etc.

Storage Directions

If you make this Hidden Valley ranch veggie pizza ahead of time, I recommend making it on a cookie sheet that has a lid (these are my favorites!) or store it in another airtight container.

Another option is to place the cream cheese veggie pizza on a platter and cover it with plastic wrap. It must be stored in the refrigerator until serving time – it will not keep at room temperature.

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