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!
Next time try this easy to make this homemade cream cheese Danish, delish!
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Why you'll love this recipe
The dangerously delicious description of these rolls comes from my Mom. My folks are visiting this week, which is great because they can help us eat all of this "recipe testing" food!
✔️ They are simple to make.
✔️ Use just a handful of ingredients.
✔️ Dangerously addictive!
They are so good - 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
For the exact measurements, please refer to the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post.
- frozen bake and serve rolls - if you can't find rolls you can also use frozen bread dough.
- brown sugar
- white sugar
- cinnamon
- walnuts
- butter
- powdered sugar and lemon for the glaze.
Instructions
This is an overview of the instructions. For the complete directions just scroll down to the bottom!
- Thaw freeze and bake rolls
- Butter baking dish well.
- 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 the 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.
- Top with lemon sugar glaze, 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 (ahem....but not that long in our house!).
Things to know
Baking time may vary depending on the size of the baking dish you use.
Be sure to use non stick cooking spray or butter the pan well.
Variations
- Finely chopped apples, pecans, raisins or crasins would be a lovely addition to the cinnamon rolls.
- Cooked crumbled bacon mixed in with the brown sugar? Sweet, savory deliciousness!
- Instead of the powdered sugar glaze, caramel or a drizzle of chocolate sauce would be amazing.
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Serve with
- This would be a lovely side dish with a frittata. That's a great combination!
- A side of cheesy hashbrown potato casserole would be delicious!
- Top the Pull Apart Cinnamon Rolls with a slather of Texas Roadhouse Honey Butter or Orange jelly - that would be amazing!
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Pull Apart Cinnamon Rolls
Ingredients
- 16 rolls thaw and bake rolls or frozen bread dough.
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ¾ cup butter melted
- ½ cups walnuts optional
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 lemon freshly squeezed juice
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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.
Notes
- Finely chopped apples, pecans, raisins or crasins would be a lovely addition to the cinnamon rolls.
- Cooked crumbled bacon mixed in with the brown sugar? Sweet, savory deliciousness!
- Instead of the powdered sugar glaze, caramel or a drizzle of chocolate sauce would be amazing.
Nutrition
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Don't worry, we'll never share your email.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!
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!
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!!