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These Crescent Apple Cinnamon Rolls with Caramel Drizzle will look like you spent hours in the kitchen but let it be our secret just how easy this homemade dessert is!
Your family can enjoy delicious homemade cinnamon rolls without it taking you all day in the kitchen to make them! The apple filling is cooked from scratch but we are using jumbo crescent rolls for the dough! Work smarter, not harder!
More Easy Recipes Using Crescent Rolls
- Crescent Roll and Sausage Breakfast Casserole
- Homemade Crescent Apple Turnovers
- Pecan Apple Raisin Crescents
The apple raisin filling topped with toasted pecans will satisfy your Fall flavors craving with or without the caramel drizzle. Crescent rolls provide that soft flaky dough we crave with cinnamon rolls too!
Pecans and raisins are optional but I would encourage you to make some with and some without for variety.
The secret to success is rolling out the crescent rolls so that you get those soft doughy layers we all love in cinnamon rolls.
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Crescent Apple Cinnamon Rolls with Caramel Drizzle
Author: Shirley Wood of Intelligent Domestications
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
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Serves: 7
Your family will think you were in the kitchen all day making dough from scratch! The cooked apples and raisins will make that fall flavor explosion we all crave.
Ingredients
- 1 pkg. jumbo crescent rolls
- 2 Medium sweet apples
- ½ stick butter (divided)
- ¼ cup plus 2 Tbsp. brown sugar
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- ¼ chopped pecans (optional)
- ¼ cup raisins (optional)
Instructions
- COOKING THE APPLES
- Peel and Cut the apples into small chunks for cooking
- Place ¼ cup butter and ¼ cup brown sugar into skillet and cook on medium heat stirring until butter is melted.
- Add cut up apples to the butter mixture and cook until apples are tender.
- Cook apple mixture with a lid on the pan, removing frequently to stir and replace each time.
- If you are adding raisins into your rolls, add them to the apple mixture about halfway through the cooking time. This will plump the raisins.
- PREPARE THE CRESCENT ROLLS
- While the apple mixture is cooking, Place the crescent rolls onto a floured surface.
- Line all of the crescent rolls up side by side and pinch the seams together,
- Use a rolling pin to roll the crescent roll dough out thinner. (It will be uneven on the edges, that is ok)
- Spread the other ¼ cup of butter over the top of the dough.
- Sprinkle the 2 Tbsp. of brown sugar over the top of the buttered dough.
- Sprinkle the cinnamon over the butter and brown sugar.
- PREPARE THE APPLE MIXTURE
- Scoop the raisins out of the cooked apple mixture and set aside.
- Grind the cooked apples up in a small food chopper. Apples should be fairly smooth but will have tiny chunks.
- Stir the raisins back into the apples.
- Spread the apple and raisin mixture over the top of the dough, do not drain.
- CUTTING THE ROLLS
- Starting at one end, gently roll the dough into a log. Take care to roll as tight as possible.
- Use a serrated knife to slice the log into pieces about 1 inch each.
- Sprinkle chopped pecans on top of each roll.
- BAKE
- Bake in preheated oven at 325° for approximately 15 to 20 minutes or until dough is golden. Allow to cool.
- Drizzle caramel ice cream topping over each roll.
- Serve and enjoy!
Shirley Wood
Hi, I'm Shirley; recipe creator, crafting enthusiast and penny pincher from way back. Join me on my journey of domestic living and isn't everything domestic!
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Emily says
October 26, 2017 at 4:42 pmThis sounds amazing! Pinned 🙂
Trista, Domesticated Momster says
October 28, 2015 at 8:45 pmNow please tell me why things like this can’t make us skinny! This is much more mouthwatering than a rice cake! The apples are oozing! Yum! Thanks so much for sharing with #foodpornthursdays and we hope you will join us for our last this week.
Mergen says
October 22, 2015 at 12:49 pmIt’s decided…I need to live at your house! My stomach would always be happy! I bet your house always smells delicious! Oh my goodness, definitely trying this!
Shirley Wood says
October 22, 2015 at 1:01 pmI was just thinking about possibly making some of these today! LoL, No my house does not always smell delicious but we do get on a roll sometimes.
Jess says
September 14, 2015 at 10:01 pmOMG these sound so amazing! YUMMY!
Thanks for joining Cooking and Crafting with J & J!
sue says
September 14, 2015 at 3:05 amOh I have my coffee ready so I’d like some please! These look absolutely delicious and I can almost smell the apple and cinnamon yummmm. Thanks for sharing this with us at #WednesdaysWisdom and have a great week!
Elizabeth @ Guilty Chocoholic Mama says
September 12, 2015 at 8:03 amI’m with Alli: make anything with a crescent roll, and I’ve got high hopes for it. But these look over-the-top fabulous. Pinning…and putting crescent rolls on my grocery list. Thank you for coming up with these! Stopping by from the Saturday Soiree. 🙂
Shirley Wood says
September 12, 2015 at 10:31 amElizabeth, thanks for stopping by. I totally agree about crescent rolls. I try to keep them in the fridge all the time. If you have Crescent rolls, apples and butter you can easily create a nice dessert!
Lorelai @ Life With Lorelai says
September 12, 2015 at 12:40 amOh, these look heavenly! I absolutely LOVE caramel, who needs the frosting. LOL
The pecans would be a must for me, but I’d leave out the raisins. Fantastin recipe, Shirley, thank you.
~Lorelai
Life With Lorelai
Shirley Wood says
September 12, 2015 at 10:32 amWe love tossing pecans into and on top of most anything. Raisins are hit or miss with most folks. I like them more than my hubby does so I go light on the raisins for him.
Kristen from The Road to Domestication says
September 11, 2015 at 7:37 pmOkay, I swear I can smell these through the screen! They look amazing!
Shirley Wood says
September 12, 2015 at 10:33 amI wish I had some this beautiful cool almost fall morning! They are so good!
Alli says
September 11, 2015 at 2:21 pmI love all things made with crescent rolls. I really like the caramel drizzle, too. It looks so gooey and delicious. Cinnamon rolls are such a big favorite of mine. I can hardly wait to try one of these babies. Yum!
Shirley Wood says
September 12, 2015 at 10:40 amThat caramel drizzle was so good on those rolls!! You can’t beat just using the ice cream topping caramel, so easy and delicious!