I feel like people feel like they need an excuse to make cinnamon rolls. Holidays? Definitely. Brunch? For sure. A random Wednesday. Certainly not!
Until now – thanks to 8 Minute Mini Cinnamon Rolls! Don’t you just want to pinch their wee, cinnamon-swirled, YEAST FREE CHEEKS?
That’s right – no waiting for dough to double and rise because we’re channeling our inner Sandra Lee and taking help from the grocery store to bust these babies out in record time. All you need is a tube of crescent roll dough, butter, sugar, cinnamon – oh, and 8 minutes – and you’re off to the races.
Dare you to eat just one…
How to Make Mini Cinnamon Rolls:
Start by smacking open a tube of crescent roll dough. (File that under top 5 most satisfying feelings in life.)
Place half the dough next to each other then pinch the seams together.
Flip then repeat.
Next, take a rolling pin then roll the dough into a smooth square about 1/4″ thick.
Brush on 1 Tablespoon butter then sprinkle with cinnamon and add a dusting of brown sugar. No need to measure – just go with your gut!
Roll the dough into a log then cut into 8 even slices.
Place the rolls into a non-stick sprayed mini muffin tin then bake for 8-10 minutes, or until golden brown.
Whee!
Aren’t they the cutest? I can’t even describe how delicious they smell warm out of the oven!
As the mini cinnamon rolls bake, mix up a quick icing made from maple syrup, powdered sugar, and a little bit of milk. While the cinnamon rolls are still warm, drizzle a teaspoon or two of the icing on top of each one.
DROOL…
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8 Minute Mini Cinnamon Rolls
Description
8 Minute Mini Cinnamon Rolls are ready in under 10 minutes. Sweet and poppable, they disappear in minutes!
Ingredients
- 1-8oz tube crescent roll dough
- 2 Tablespoons butter, melted
- cinnamon
- brown sugar
- For the maple icing:
- 1 teaspoon maple syrup
- 1 Tablespoon milk
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
Directions
- Preheat oven according to crescent roll dough package directions. Place half the dough (4 triangles) side by side on a cutting board then pinch all the seams together. Flip then pinch the seams on the back side together.
- Using a rolling pin, smooth the seams and roll the dough into a square about 1/4" thick. Brush with half the butter then sprinkle with as much cinnamon and brown sugar as you want. Roll into a log then cut into 8 pieces.
- Place mini cinnamon rolls into a non-stick sprayed mini muffin tin. Repeat steps 1 and 2 with the other half of the crescent roll dough. Bake according to package directions.
- Meanwhile whisk together maple syrup and milk in a bowl. Add in powdered sugar until desired consistency is reached. Drizzle over warm cinnamon rolls.
This recipe is courtesy of Iowa Girl Eats, http://iowagirleats.com.
These sweet and poppable bites are tiny enough to sit on a spoon…
but pack BIG, bold flavor! I’d advise making a couple batches – they’ll go fast!
Enjoy!
and, this settles it- we NEED a mini muffin pan! totally wanna make these! :)
These are delicious and easy! Thank you so much for sharing your recipe. They are a huge hit at my house. :)
I am a cinnamon roll lover and I say this is BRILLANT!
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wat else can i use for the pastry as we dont have the one u mentioned. puff pastry??
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I just wanted to thank you for posting this. I try making new things in the kitchen, create art, crafts,etc. But I never take the time to take pics and write out a how to. So I’m so grateful that there are people out there like you doing it. So a huge THANK YOU!
Tried these today and they turned out amazing! This will be made many times in my home…all thanks to YOU! :)
I tried these this weekend and have to thank you for posting such a delicious and easy recipe! It was a huge hit!
I just made these with my 9-year-old son, and they are fantastic! We had fun rolling out the dough, sprinkling the cinnamon and brown sugar, and eating them! Ours came out looking like little flowers and were gone within just a couple of minutes. Thank you!
I have made these with regular sugar and then when making the icing, use orange juice for the liquid with the powdered sugar. They taste like like orange muffins! Lemons are also and good flavor.
I tried these! They were very good and very easy to make! Thanks for sharing!
Hello,
Can someone please explain to me what crescent rolls are please. I really want to make these.
Thank you
So I guess the big question is, how do you not just eat them all at once?
How did you cut them without one side turning into a triangle type shape?
Thought I’d let you know that my sister and I here in the UK saw your recipe and made some…well over 100 to be honest. Yes 100, we made them for my sisters Church congregation today April 20th. She has just reported back that they went down a storm with none left. Luckily I made a few extra for my boys and now I have to make more as they ate them all.
We couldn’t get the dough over here, so we used puff pastry, but they are really yummy.
Thanks for the recipe.
Lilly
Oh yeah and we made your corn dog muffins…all gone. Thanks x
Made these this morning for the first time…WOW! SUPER EASY AND QUICK! My boys LOVED them! A nice (and surprising) change from cereal for breakfast :) Thanks for sharing!
Love these! I added crumbled microwave bacon to the maple frosting, they were fabulous! Thanks for sharing the recipe.
I just made these but added chunks of chopped, ripe banana to the inside and it was even tastier than the plain ones!
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I made these for breakfast… Sooooo good! Thanks so much for this simple recipe!
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I am so excited to make these this morning for Mother’s Day! Thanks for the amazing recipe!
I love the mini muffin pan idea! You can bake them on a cookie sheet in shapes, too! At Christmas make them into tree shapes and tint your icing green.
Hi Kristin! I wanted to let you know that I made these mini cinnamon buns this weekend and oh my goodness! They were so yummy and SO perfect. I’ll be posting them on my website tonight. Thanks for the inspiration Kristin! Your blog is adorable! :)
xo,
Sally
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Pampered Chef sells a Min Tart Pan that are perfect for this recipe, I can hardly wait to make them!!!
These look ridiculous! In a great way, I mean ;)
I’m new to cooking/baking. So why Brown sugar instead of normal sugar? What does brown sugar have that everyday sugar doesnt?
Thanks :)
It has molasses in it and better in some recipes
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I have made these several times and they are always a hit! My sister in law just told me about cresant roll sheets by Pilsbury! All you do is take them out, roll it (a little), add the butter, br sugar, cinnamon, and bake! They are so handy!
These are simply amazing!!! I must admit I have made them almost every weekend since I discovered the recipe about two months ago. SO sweet and yummy!
Can i make these in a regular standard size cupcake pan?
I’m sure you can, but they might flatten a bit, and take less time to cook!
thanks for the reply, hoping to get an answer about the amount of brown sugar and cinnamon too that I asked and following up on the pan used, I am on a very strict budget, I think I will just bake them in the round cake pan I use when I bake pillsbury cinnamon rolls, more will fit in the pan of course, but that should work well too, right?
If you use a regular size muffin pan then cut the roll into half the pieces you would for the mini size. Might have to bake a bit longer also.
A regular size pan would require to cut the rolled up log into half the amount of slices.
How much brown sugar and cinnamon are people using? anyone using ceylon cinnamon (I just learned about it) and curious if I love cinnamon, which I do, and it is the other kind (cassia), will I like this stuff?
Probably 2 Tablespoons or so per half!
2 tbsp of each per half? (brown sugar and cinnamon) and thanks for the reply
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ooooh my goodness.
We stay in South Africa and I’ve not seen that dough anywhere.. do you know what I could substitute that with?
desperately need to make this. hehe.
thank you.
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These are FANTASTIC!!!!!! I will definitely make these as often as possible. My kiddos loved them.
I can’t wait to make these, thank you!
This could very well be the cutest breakfast I’ve ever seen. Yes, I do want to pinch their cheeks!
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Oh my goodness! Saw how great these looked and had to give them a try since im becoming baking-obessed & I LOVE how they turned out! You are right there is a lot of big & bold taste in such small rolls! :)
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Okay so I remember way back when I was in jr. high cooking class we made something similar to these and the teacher had us use un-flavored dental floss to ‘cut’ them before cooking…it was genius! Put the floss around the roll, cross over at the top and pull.
I used biscuit dough and they were still great :)