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Easy Apple Cinnamon Roll Muffins

Total Time
1h 34m
22m prep · 72m cook
Servings
4 people
Rating
Difficulty
Hard
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🥬 Vegetarian 🌾 Gluten-Free 🥜 Nut-Free ☪️ Halal ✡️ Kosher

These apple cinnamon roll muffins are soft, buttery, gooey 'cinnamon roll' tasting muffins that are delicious and super easy to make!

Ingredients

  • 12 frozens dinner rolls , such as Rhodes®
  • cooking spray
  • 0.5 cups white sugar
  • 0.5 cups brown sugar
  • 3 tablespoons ground cinnamon
  • 0.25 cups butter , melted
  • 2 apples - peeled , cored, and chopped
  • 0.25 cups golden raisins
  • 0.5 cups cream cheese , at room temperature
  • 0.5 cups confectioners' sugar
  • 3 tablespoons heavy whipping cream , or more as needed
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

  1. 1

    Put frozen rolls on a baking sheet, spray a piece of plastic wrap with cooking spray and place over rolls. Let rise until doubled in size, about 3 hours.

  2. 2

    Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a muffin tin with paper liners.

  3. 3

    Mix white sugar, brown sugar, and cinnamon together in a bowl. Place melted butter in a small bowl.

  4. 4

    Grab approximately 1 tablespoon of thawed and risen dough and roll into a ball. Dip the ball in the melted butter and roll in the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Repeat to fill each muffin liner with 3 buttered and sugared dough balls.

  5. 5

    Combine apples and raisins in a bowl. Sprinkle about 1 teaspoon apple-raisin mixture over each muffin.

  6. 6

    Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, about 25 minutes.

  7. 7

    Beat cream cheese, confectioners' sugar, whipping cream, and vanilla extract together in a bowl until glaze is smooth, 3 to 5 minutes. Drizzle glaze over muffins.

Nutrition Facts

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