Homemade Ham and Swiss Roll-Ups (Homemade Hot Pocket dough with no yeast!)
This homemade hot pocket dough with no yeast (and a ham and cheese filling) comes together in just a few minutes. This post contains affiliate links, which earn revenue for this site at no extra cost to you. See my disclosure policy here.
A photo of these ham and Swiss rollups appeared on a menu post of mine a few weeks back, and you all asked for the recipe.
It comes from the orange ATK Quick Family Cookbook (look for used copies on Amazon or eBay, as it's out of print) and is super easy.
I mentioned initially that these look a little like Hot Pockets, but you need to take that opinion with a grain of salt because I've never actually HAD a Hot Pocket.
But these do reheat really well in the microwave, so perhaps they could serve as a sub for the Hot Pocket-eating people at your house.
A few tweaks from the original
The original recipe calls for a can of refrigerated biscuits, but since cream biscuits are SO easy to make, I opted for that. I think you could use pretty much any biscuit recipe you like as long as it makes 8 biscuits.
(The biscuit recipe is the same one I use for my Chicken and Biscuits casserole.)
Also, you are supposed to buy squares of deli Swiss, but since a block of cheese is cheaper per pound, that's what I do. A big square would be a little easier to work with, though.
The cream biscuits
Seriously, these are stupid easy. If you are looking for a homemade Hot Pocket dough with no yeast, it really doesn't get easier than this.
But if you'd like this dish to be even easier, use the refrigerated biscuits and skip to the next section!
Step One
Mix dry ingredients in a bowl.
Step two.
Stir in cream.
And tada! You have biscuit dough.
For this recipe, give the dough a few kneads on a floured counter and divide it into eight pieces.
Pat each piece into a 4-5 inch circle.
The filling
Spread mustard onto Swiss cheese. I think I'd use three slices next time instead of two, but your mileage may vary.
Top with ham (2-3 slices depending on how big your ham slices are.)
Roll up and place on the biscuit round. See how I think this could use a little more cheese? Add one more slice than I did!
Roll the biscuit dough up and tuck the ends in.
Brush them with a beaten egg and bake for 25-30 minutes.
These are good shortly after they come out of the oven, but they also reheat quite well. I haven't tried freezing them, but I'm guessing that would work. Let me know if you try it!
Ham and Cheese Roll-Ups (Homemade Hot Pockets)
These quick biscuit dough sandwiches are great when fresh but also reheat really well. Make your own dough or use a 16 ounce package of refrigerated biscuits.
Ingredients
Cream Biscuit Dough
- 2 cups unbleached flour
- 2 teaspoons granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon table salt
- 1 ½ cups heavy cream
Ham and Swiss filling
- 4 teaspoons spicy brown mustard
- 8 slices deli Swiss cheese
- 16 slices deli ham
- 1 egg, beaten
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325°F.
- To make biscuits, combine dry ingredients in a bowl; whisk. Stir in cream. Turn dough out onto lightly floured surface and knead a few times. Divide into 8 pieces; press each into a 4-5 inch round.
- Spread ½ teaspoon mustard over each slices of Swiss. Place 2-3 ham slices on top (pat dry if wet).
- Roll up ham and cheese, place in center of each biscuit round, and roll up, tucking in sides at the end.
- Place on greased or parchment-lined baking sheet and brush with beaten egg.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until golden brown.
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These look great! I have lots of ideas swirling around in my head that I could fill this biscuit dough with. I made GF apple fritter bread yesterday, which was delicious, but I think I'm gonna hold off on baking for awhile. In the South, it's still really hot and heating up my kitchen was a mistake. It was still hot in the house at bedtime.
Last time I checked, if you get Aldi cheese, the price per pound is the same for bricks and slices. I'll recheck next time I'm there, but if you get Aldi cheese and not Costco or something, you may want to recheck!
Also, side note, this post is showing a huge number of ads, including pop-up videos. I know your posts always have some ads, but this seems way above usual. I just counted, and I have 14 ads in this single post. So you may want to check if that's expected.
Ooh, good to know about the Aldi cheese, I will check.
About the ads: I haven't changed any settings for ad density, so I'm not sure why more would be showing up.
But the video IS new...it's unique to this post. It's a short slideshow video of making the recipe, and there's just an ad that plays before the video, like on YouTube. It won't be on every post...just on this particular one.
Video isn't usually my number one favorite medium, but I know some people do prefer that format. I'll see what feedback people have and then decide if I should keep adding them to future recipe posts. 🙂
I have not had one pop-up ad.
The biscuits sound delicious. Need to get some cream. How do you reheat them? I would think the microwave might make for a loss of crispness in the biscuit.
I saw 9 ads and it did seem like more than usual. Hershey candy, some face stuff, clothes-buying site is what I remember. I NEVER buy stuff from ads on blogs. Good recipe, though. I wonder about a yeast-containing version since I like yeast bread better than biscuits. I’ll scroll around your site.
Jenny, consider using Angel Biscuits for a yeasty version of this recipe. It's a biscuit recipe that uses both yeast and baking powder, and is easy to work. It can also sit in the fridge for up to a week, allowing you to make as few or as many biscuits as you want at that time.
I just counted 11 pop ups snd most were for things I am not interested in like a mattress!
Hmm, there should definitely not be 11 pop-ups! Are you maybe referring to just the ads within the post?
I'm getting several pop-ups as well. I'll close one, and then another pops up. That's not including the bottom banner that goes over the bottom of the screen (I'm not sure if that one 'counts' as a pop up.) People might be getting more pop-ups if they are accidentally clicking the ads as they are trying to scroll through the post, since there is an ad every couple inches. You might want to log out and check on a couple phones or tablets and see what it looks like for you!
So, when I try this on my phone or on a desktop browser (both logged out), I'm not getting any pop-ups besides the bar across the bottom and then video, which slides over to the bottom corner when you scroll.
Hmm.
Can you screen-shot it when you get a second or third pop-up so we can troubleshoot what's happening?
Also, what browser are you using?
I get the bottom banner when I log in with a Mac (usually with FF but sometimes I use Safari), never when I log in on a PC (either FF or IE). The bottom banner is quite intrusive.
I don't see the pop-ups on IE + FF/IE. I'll check a Mac later, if you want.
Hi Kristen,
Thanks for this great recipe! You could turn this into "Hawaiian Toast" by omitting the mustard and adding some pineapple chunks to the rollup filling! I've bought sliced Swiss cheese at Costco when it's on sale, which are nice rectangular pieces.
When I played the video (noting it was a first!), there was no ad, but it was immediately followed by another video on Thred-Up rejects. And then it stopped. 🙂
About the ads:
I noticed as soon as you had been to FinCon the ads were more plentiful, too! Suddenly there was little screen left - one stripe ad across the top, another across the bottom and a few on the right side. It must be that the search engines are taking note of your success and are blessing you (us!) with more ads!
As for feedback on video over stills, in this case it was basically a slide show and therefore not a lot of difference... it's hard to pick the music for these things, as the sound can get so annoying, but of course there's the "mute" button! In my mind, a video would show you actually making the things. If you don't want to do that, there are plenty of how-to videos on YouTube. So I'm fine with the way you've always done it, but suit yourself.
Made your overnight cinnamon rolls yesterday without the overnight part and they were a hit!
Thank you for your wonderful website and sharing your insights with us! Not sure how long I've been reading along, but it's been several years for sure. You're really part of the family!
Oh dear, you are getting a stripe ad across the top? There should only be one on the bottom of the screen, not at the top. Can you send me a screen shot of one at the top so that we can figure out what's going on with that?
Also, are you on desktop or mobile when this happens?
I've thought the same thing about slideshow videos, but apparently these are useful for SEO purposes...Google likes pages to have some kind of video on them. I've wondered if maybe I should just wait and add the video a couple of days after I post, since it's mostly there for people who find the post via Google anyway.
Just now, at 10:20 p.m., there are no stripe ads at either top or bottom, and none on the right, either! I counted 8 little boxes of ads interspersed with the blog post the first time I counted just now (WisdomTree ETFs, Sport betting and something against toe nail fungus), and 7 little boxes of ads the second time. The one in the printable recipe had disappeared. Go figure! All ads are by Mediavine.
I view your blog on an iMac (desktop with a nice, large screen) and I know it's getting a lot past its prime (2008)... I will send you a screenshot if I see a banner ad at the top again. I am in Canada, so I think the ads are Canadian... especially for me to enjoy! Just now the video you had added doesn't even show up, nor does the first ad - just empty white boxes... Well, that's the update. Good Night!
Yay! I'm so exited to try this recipe! This could be great for the nights where my husband gets home late and I want to have something reheatable for him for dinner. Thanks for sharing!
Finally made them! Loved it! My kids weren't excited about the filling, but loved the biscuit part. I like the other ideas of pizza filling or chicken pot pie filling... I think my kiddos will be more willing to eat that.
I'm looking forward to eating a leftover one at lunch tomorrow!
Thanks for the recipe! Looks super easy, and quite flexible.
Just wanted to give my notes on the ads, in case it's helpful. I'm on a desktop, running Firefox. There are 4 square ads within the content. They didn't bother me. There was one slideshow that showed your Rescue Box rejects, but at first glance, I thought it was an ad. When I scrolled down, it popped down to the bottom right corner of the screen.
On the right column, there were two ads (both for the same company for me, though at one point, I saw a third company in the right column, and I haven't refreshed). One ad in the right column was sticky and stayed in place after I saw it - it scrolled down with me, with the content.
There was an ad in the footer, but I closed it, because I really don't like those. 🙂
Hmm.... Wondering if this would work with all-purpose gluten-free flour... Sounds pretty delishous to me!
I made this and they were wonderful and easy to make. I used shredded chedder and the chunk of turkey breast from Aldi that I chopped up. They reheat in the microwave nicely.
I'm glad you've posted this, though I already had a go at these after your first post. I made the dough you had linked, and filled it with chicken pot pie filling, and they made very nice hand chicken pot pies.
I'll definitely try making hot pockets, I'm thinking I might mix cool pizza sauce with shredded mozzarella and freeze that in a mold of some kind, then wrap the cubes in the dough and freeze those, so I can pull them out and bake one or two at a time.
Thanks for this recipe. Lots of inspiration for fillings. My family is not picky about food - they're omnivores for sure! This is a great way to use up leftovers like BBQ chicken, roasted veggies, etc.
Yum!
Wow, Kristen! These are seriously good! Thank you so much for sharing this. I made them for my SO to switch up his lunch routine, and I wasn't going to have one for myself...but then I realized I just *have* to try one and make sure I did OK...right?! I'm pleasantly surprised that such a simple recipe yields such awesome biscuit dough (as you said), and without the super salty or overly buttery taste some of the cannisters of dough can have. I do have to practice, though, because I ended up making Franken-rolls: I only got 4 circles of dough out of the recipe, which means I have to roll thinner. And I had thicker cheese and ham, so it took less of it, as you also said. But I'm still loving this recipe. Five of five stars to ATK and to you for stellar content curation. 😉
I made these today and my dough was super wet. Ended up adding quite a bit of flour to get them less sticky, but I had a really hard time rolling them up after adding the ham and Swiss. Any thoughts on what to do next time or why my dough was so wet?
I used 2 cups flour 1.5 cup liquid per the recipe, but wonder if I missed something?
Hmm. Did you use milk? Or did you use the heavy cream called for in the recipe? If you used milk, it definitely would be a wetter dough than if you used cream.
I made these but used your pizza dough recipe. Added pepperoni to some -delish!
Can these be frozen after baking? If so how's the best way to do it? I did mine up as a breakfast pockets!
I'd let them cool, then wrap them tightly in plastic (or put them in an air tight plastic bag) and freeze them.