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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! They make a soft and delicious dough to stuff with apples and made dessert.
We have more Apple Dessert Recipes to Try
There are only four ingredients in these Crescent Roll Apple Turnovers. The crescent rolls are not homemade, the dessert is!
You can make these apple stuffed cinnamon rolls for a good fall dessert during apple season or cheat with canned apple pie filling.
Another good marriage between apples and Crescent rolls is this apple dessert I call Pecan Apple Raisin Crescents. We cook fresh apples, raisins are optional but we love them.
You can whip up these Apple Dumplings in the Crockpot in just a few hours. There are only three ingredients involved and if you like, a dollop of ice cream would be perfect on top.
We make the apples on the bottom become the top in this recipe for Upside Down Caramelized Apple Pecan Biscuits. A delicious Fall breakfast treat.
Our Gluten Free Baked Apple Crisp is also free of refined sugar. Loads of deliciousness included with fresh apples and that yummy oat and almond topping.
Ingredients for Apple Cinnamon Rolls
- Jumbo crescent rolls
- Fresh apples
- Butter
- Brown sugar, on Amazon here
- Cinnamon, this brand on Amazon
- Pecans, like these from Amazon
- Raisins, my favorite brand from Amazon
Optional Ingredients
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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- 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)
- 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!
Savory Recipes Using Apples
- Roasted Maple Drenched Apple Pork Tenderloin, baked in the oven. Great recipe for a big Sunday dinner or a weeknight meal.
- Apples add fiber to diet and this easy recipe with only three ingredients makes a wonderful Fall meal. Crockpot Maple Glazed Apple Pork Chops.
- Pork and Apples with Cabbage come together beautifully in this easy recipe for Apple Stuffed Pork Loin. Another good Sunday dinner idea or a perfect weeknight meal.
Emily says
This sounds amazing! Pinned 🙂
Trista, Domesticated Momster says
Now 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
It’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
I 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
OMG these sound so amazing! YUMMY!
Thanks for joining Cooking and Crafting with J & J!
sue says
Oh 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
I’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
Elizabeth, 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
Oh, 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
We 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
Okay, I swear I can smell these through the screen! They look amazing!
Shirley Wood says
I wish I had some this beautiful cool almost fall morning! They are so good!
Alli says
I 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
That caramel drizzle was so good on those rolls!! You can’t beat just using the ice cream topping caramel, so easy and delicious!