Sticky Sweet Pull Apart Cinnamon Rolls with a sweet lemony glaze! These rolls are the perfect starter rolls for beginners! They are easy to make and dangerously delicious!
Pull Apart Cinnamon Rolls
The dangerously delicious description of these rolls comes from my Mom. My are visiting this week, which is great because they can help us eat all of this "recipe testing" food!
We're having a great time, we always do! We've visited the camera store. I tried to talk Mom and Dad into buying a new body for my Sony and they just laughed - hey a gal's gotta try, right? 🤣 Dan just shook his head!
We've snapping photos and cooking up a storm, no surprise there!
These delicious pull apart cinnamon rolls took a couple of try to get just right. Think of it as the three bears, one was too soft, one didn't have enough flavor - one was just right!
They are simple to make and dangerously delicious - I dare you to eat just one!
Have you ever worked with thaw and bake rolls? My Grandma used to use this dough all the time for Easy Dinner Rolls - quick, thaw and bake - so delicious! This time I'm using the rolls to make sticky buns!
Ingredients
- Rhodes Bake-N-Serv® Rolls
- brown sugar
- white sugar
- cinnamon
- walnuts
- butter
- powdered sugar
- lemon
Instructions
- Thaw freeze and bake rolls
- Butter pie dish lay Silpat on the bottom.
- Melt butter
- Cut each roll in half
- Mix together cinnamon, granulated sugar and brown sugar.
- Dunk each roll in melted butter.
- Roll in cinnamon sugar mixture.
- Place the cinnamon roll pieces in a loaf pan.
- Repeat with remaining rolls.
- Dust the top of the rolls with any remaining cinnamon sugar and top with walnuts.
- Cover and allow to rise for 2-3 hours, until doubled in size.
- Preheat oven - bake for 35-40 minutes until golden brown and baked thru.
- Top with lemon sugar glaze or cream cheese icing enjoy!
FAQ's
The dough will thaw in about an hour, then after you prepare the rolls it will take about 3 hours for the bread to rise. Plan on about 5 hours start to finish for the rolls to thaw, rise and bake.
This Homemade Cinnamon Roll Monkey Bread recipe bakes in about 35-40 minutes.
Wrap in foil and refrigerate leftovers.
Sticky rolls will last up to five days (but not that long in our house!).
Related recipes
- Homemade Cream Cheese Danish Recipe
- Upside Down Blueberry Sweet Rolls
- Grandma Few's Banana Nut Bread
- Yogurt Cake
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Recipe
Pull Apart Cinnamon Rolls
Ingredients
- 16 rolls thaw and bake rolls
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ¾ cup butter melted
- ½ cups walnuts optional
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 lemon freshly squeezed juice
Instructions
- Thaw the freeze and bake rolls, cut each roll in half.
- Butter the pie dish lay and lay the Silpat on the bottom of the pie dish.
- Melt the butter. Mix together cinnamon, sugar and brown sugar.
- Dunk each roll in butter, then roll in cinnamon sugar mixture. Place in the pie pan, repeat with remaining rolls.
- Dust the top of the rolls with any remaining cinnamon sugar and top with walnuts.
- Cover and allow to rise for 2-3 hours, until doubled in size.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees - bake for 35-40 minutes until golden brown and baked thru.
- Mix together powdered sugar, lemon and vanilla. Add just enough lemon to make the glaze easy to drizzle. Drizzle over the top of the baked cinnamon rolls.
michele
Im loving that you use store bought rolls to get cinnamon rolls! What a great idea... so much easier and you know they will turn out the same each time!
Michaela Kenkel
I need to try these cinnamon rolls. We have company coming this weekend perfect opportunity!
Julie Menghini
We love recipes like this. These sweet rolls will go perfectly with my morning coffee and I love how simple you've made them!
Bowl Me Over
Thank you Julie, sweet rolls are life - I totally agree!!
Robin Abrams
We make a ham, cheesy scalloped potatos, green beans, deviled eggs , home made dressing.
Bowl Me Over
That sounds like a great spread Robin! Happy Easter, I hope it's a great one!!
Angela Paris
Gosh you're photos are so beautiful! I just want to crawl into it and gobble these up!
Bowl Me Over
Haha! That's awesome Angela - I should pack up a care package to send your way! ?
Liza
What an awesome idea for the upcoming Easter celebrations! It must be so yummy!
Bowl Me Over
Thank you Liza!! Dan ate so much of these it gave him a tummy ache! The man likes his sweets!!