Apple Pie Cinnamon Rolls

Course Breakfast, Dessert

Cuisine American, Southern

Keyword apple-pie-cinnamon-rolls, easy-apple-pie-cinnamon-rolls

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 30

Total Time 50

Servings servings

Calories 257kcal

Author Melissa Sperka

Preheat the oven to 375°F. Use 1 Tbsp butter to coat the bottom and sides of a 12-inch cast iron skillet or similar. Set aside
On a nonstick surface, stretch the pizza dough into a 15x10-inch rectangle. Spread the dough with 4 Tbsp softened butter.
Mix together the brown sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle over the butter.
Use a sharp knife to cut the apple wedges in the pie filling into smaller pieces. Stir in the apple pie spice. Spread the apple mixture over the crust.
Begin rolling from the widest edge ending seam side down. Use a sharp knife and cut into 12 equal pieces. Arrange in the buttered skillet.
Bake for 25-30 minutes until golden and puffy.
Mix together the powdered sugar, heavy cream and vanilla extract. Add enough cream to make the glaze drizzling consistency.
Drizzle the glaze over the rolls and serve.

- Dough: You can swap out frozen bread dough for the refrigerated pizza dough, if desired. Follow the package instructions for thawing the bread dough, usually in the fridge for several hours or overnight, then allow rise time.

- Homemade Apple Pie Filling: You can skip canned pie filling and make your own from scratch. You can use honeycrisp apples, gala apples, golden delicious or granny smith apples to make it. See the Cook's Note for detailed instructions.

- To Make Homemade Apple Pie Filling: In a heavy bottomed saucepan cook 4 cups of cubed apple, 1/3 cup of granulated sugar, 1/2 tsp apple pie spice and 1/4 tsp of salt. Simmer for 15-20 minutes until softened. Thicken with 1 tablespoon of cornstarch dissolved in 1-2 tablespoon of cold water, repeat as needed. Cool then proceed with the recipe as written.

- Spices: Spices: If you don't have apple pie spice on hand, you can use the ground cinnamon plus 1/8 teaspoon of ground cloves or allspice, 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg, 1/8 teaspoon cardamom and 1/8 teaspoon ground ginger.

- Nuts: You could add chopped pecans, walnuts or almonds to the filling for crunch.

- Cream Cheese Icing: You could top these with a cream cheese frosting. To do so, mix together 2-4 ounces of softened cream cheese, powdered sugar, heavy cream and vanilla extract. Add more cream to thin and more sugar to sweeten until it reaches the consistency that you like.