This recipe is brought to you in partnership with Red Star Yeast. Greeting us all at the corner of comfort food and calorie-laden are APPLE CINNAMON ROLLS drowning in caramel icing. Each bite combines our favorite flavors of apple pie with the pure goodness of cinnamon rolls. Move over every other type of cinnamon roll out there… there’s a new boss in town. (We still love you, maple cinnamon rolls.) There are 3 parts to love about today’s apple cinnamon rolls: Let’s get down to basics, though. How many of you are nervous when it comes to yeast? Proofing it, working with it, kneading dough. Forget the haunted hay ride this year, yeast is terrifying enough, right?? Well, trust me, I used to fear working with yeast too. But once I started to use it, my fears quickly subsided.
Apple Cinnamon Rolls Ingredients
The dough we use to make apple cinnamon rolls is a rich dough, which means that it’s prepared with fat like milk, butter, and eggs. Rich doughs make soft breads such as Nutella babka, dinner rolls, and glazed doughnuts. It’s soft and supple, rises up beautifully, and has this crazy awesome buttery flavor. Lean doughs, on the other hand, are made without much fat and produce crusty bread such as focaccia, homemade bagels, and pizza dough. You need 7 ingredients for apple cinnamon roll dough: And just a few more ingredients for the filling + glaze:
Filling: Butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, and apples Glaze: Confectioners’ sugar, vanilla extract, milk, and salted caramel
How to Make Apple Cinnamon Rolls
Nothing compares to the flavor of homemade and you’ll be surprised how quickly these cinnamon rolls come together. You can even get started on these rolls the night before! Here are a few step photos of the process: The filling = brown sugar, cinnamon, butter, and apples. Music to our ears. (By the way, you could also add apples to the filling in these no yeast cinnamon rolls!) Let the rolls rise once again until they are puffy. You have the option of making them in the morning OR you can get started the night before. Whichever you choose, the rolls bake up into this gorgeous golden-brown color. And just WAIT until you smell them baking. By the way, if you can’t get enough of apples and cinnamon for breakfast, try my apple cider French toast next!
Icing—You Have Options!
You have a couple options for icing—I’ll let you be the judge. Some of my suggestions:
Cream cheese icing from big giant cinnamon rolls Maple icing from maple cinnamon rolls Vanilla icing Caramel icing = which is my vanilla icing with 2 spoonfuls of salted caramel stirred in. I highly recommend this version, for obvious reasons. This would also be fantastic drizzled on apple turnovers.
In short, we’re combating fears of yeast, satisfying our weekend cinnamon roll cravings, and embracing fall—all at the same time! Go ahead… let’s indulge.
More Cinnamon Roll Varieties:
Cinnamon Rolls Orange Sweet Rolls Blueberry Sweet Rolls with Lemon Glaze Raspberry Sweet Rolls Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls Overnight Cinnamon Rolls Maple Pecan Sticky Buns Lemon Sweet Rolls Birthday Cake Cinnamon Rolls
