Apple Cinnamon Rolls – With Cream Cheese Frosting!

These frosted selfmade apple cinnamon rolls are smooth, candy, fluffy, and scrumptious for breakfast or dessert!

Simple apple cinnamon rolls

Think about a heat, gooey Cinnabon full of apple pie filling in every irresistible chunk.

I made a batch of those cream cheese frosted apple rolls for my household over the vacations, and so they have been an enormous hit.

The cinnamon rolls are surprisingly wholesome, at simply 100 energy every!

And the very best a part of the recipe is how surprisingly simple it’s to make, with simply seven substances and no yeast proofing required.

Additionally attempt these Baked Apple Cider Donuts

Components

The apple cinnamon roll recipe requires diced apples, floor cinnamon, sweetener of selection, raisins, salt, optionally available butter or oil, and pizza dough.

Apples – You want a cup of finely diced apples, and these will be from nearly any number of apple. Take away the peels if you want, or depart them on for extra fiber.

I like Fuji, Pink Woman, Granny Smith, or Gala apples. The one kind I like to recommend in opposition to is Crimson Scrumptious, as a result of they have an inclination to show mushy when baked.

Cinnamon – Add a full tablespoon of top of the range floor cinnamon to the filling for that basic spicy cinnamon taste.

If you wish to spice issues up (actually), be happy to additionally throw in a pinch every of floor ginger, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves.

Raisins – A 3rd cup of raisins provides depth of taste and extra sweetness to the buns with out additional sugar.

For individuals who aren’t raisin followers, you might depart them out and improve the sugar by three tablespoons. Or substitute the raisins for the same dried fruit, equivalent to sweetened cranberries or chopped dried figs or dates.

Sugar – You should use conventional white sugar, brown sugar, or unrefined coconut sugar.

If you need apple rolls with no sugar added, swap out the sugar for an equal quantity of xylitol or a granulated stevia baking mix or monk fruit erythritol mix.

Utilizing pure maple syrup or honey will yield sticky unbaked rolls which might be extremely messy and troublesome to roll up. So I like to recommend in opposition to these sweeteners right here.

Caramels – Simply flip the recipe into caramel apple rolls by stirring a handful of diced caramels into the filling.

Different substances – Non-obligatory butter provides richness to the flavour. You may substitute applesauce and even mashed banana for fats free rolls.

For dairy free and vegan apple cinnamon rolls, use plant primarily based butter or softened (not melted) coconut oil.

Somewhat salt balances the sweetness of the apples. And I like so as to add a handful of walnuts or pecans for a enjoyable crunchy texture.

Leftover apples? Make an Applesauce Cake

What kind of dough?

My favourite time saving cinnamon roll baking trick is to purchase premade bread dough or pizza dough on the retailer.

Search for white or entire wheat packaged pizza dough within the refrigerated part of many grocery shops, together with Dealer Joe’s, Entire Meals, and Safeway.

Tip: Your native pizza place additionally usually sells premade dough. Whereas vegans ought to at all times examine the substances to verify, this dough is usually egg free and plant primarily based.

For gluten free apple cinnamon buns, search for Wholly Healthful gluten free dough or make your individual from scratch.

For those who can’t discover pizza dough, attempt including the apple filling to puff pastry or crescent roll dough as an alternative. The outcomes aren’t fairly cinnamon rolls, however they’re nonetheless tasty!

Apple cinnamon roll recipe video

Watch the complete recipe video – above.

Easy methods to make apple pie cinnamon rolls

Begin by finely dicing your apples, discarding the cores and seeds.

Utilizing a rolling pin and a clear floured floor, roll the dough out into a skinny rectangle.

If the dough is sticking to the rolling pin, add just a bit extra flour (any flour works right here, together with coconut flour).

Proceed to roll till the rectangle is below a fourth of an inch thick.

Collect your remaining substances. The butter or coconut oil must be related in texture to creamy peanut butter. You need it softened, not rock exhausting or liquid.

Mix the apples, raisins, butter or applesauce, cinnamon, salt, sugar, and optionally available walnuts in a medium mixing bowl. This will probably be your cinnamon apple roll filling.

Unfold the cinnamon filling evenly on prime of the dough. Then use a pointy knife to fastidiously minimize into lengthy strips. Roll every strip up as tightly as you’ll be able to.

Organize the apple pastries in a greased baking pan.

Now preheat the oven to 400 levels Fahrenheit. As soon as preheated, place the pan on the middle rack and bake for twenty minutes or till the dough is totally cooked and the pure sugars within the apples have browned and caramelized.

Gently pull aside the rolls together with your arms or a knife. Frost together with your favourite cinnamon roll glaze, retailer purchased Pillsbury vanilla frosting, or the cream cheese frosting beneath.

Do-it-yourself cream cheese frosting

Right here is my favourite primary cinnamon roll icing recipe, which will be each vegan and sugar free if you want.

First carry 8 ounces every of cream cheese or plant primarily based cream cheese and butter or vegan butter to room temperature.

In a stand mixer, or with hand beaters and a deep bowl, beat with 2 cups of powdered sugar or powdered erythritol and 1 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract.

Proceed mixing till you obtain a thick frosting texture. If too thick, slowly add a little bit milk of selection or water as wanted to skinny it out.

Swirl the cream cheese frosting onto scorching or chilly cinnamon rolls, and luxuriate in!

Use additional icing to prime a Vanilla Mug Cake

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