Easy Apple Cinnamon Roll Muffins

Description

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

Ingredients

  • 12 frozen dinner rolls (such as Rhodes®)
  • cooking spray
  • ½ cup white sugar
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 3 tablespoons ground cinnamon
  • ¼ cup butter, melted
  • 2 apple – peeled, cored, and chopped
  • ¼ cup golden raisins
  • ½ cup cream cheese, at room temperature
  • ½ cup confectioners’ sugar
  • 3 tablespoons heavy whipping cream, or more as needed
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

  1. Put frozen rolls on a baking sheet
  2. spray a piece of plastic wrap with cooking spray and place over rolls. Let rise until doubled in size
  3. about 3 hours.
  4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a muffin tin with paper liners.
  5. Mix white sugar
  6. brown sugar
  7. and cinnamon together in a bowl. Place melted butter in a small bowl.
  8. 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.
  9. Combine apples and raisins in a bowl. Sprinkle about 1 teaspoon apple-raisin mixture over each muffin.
  10. Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown
  11. about 25 minutes.
  12. Beat cream cheese
  13. confectioners’ sugar
  14. whipping cream
  15. and vanilla extract together in a bowl until glaze is smooth
  16. 3 to 5 minutes. Drizzle glaze over muffins.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 25 mins

Total Time: 3 hrs 45 mins

Servings: 12

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