Apple Cinnamon Roll Cupcakes are a delicious and easy fall dessert recipe with fresh apples, cinnamon sugar, refrigerated crescent roll dough and maple glaze. Making these gooey apple cinnamon rolls takes less than 30 minutes!
Apple Cinnamon Roll Cupcakes
Fall baking season finally starts!!! That means a lot of baked goods with pumpkin and apples. If you ask me, I always prefer apple over pumpkin desserts although I love me some Custard Cake year round!
Actually I could not wait September and the official start of fall baking season. So I’ve already shared a few fall dessert recipes with apples and pumpkin. You’ve probably noticed that all of these recipes use refrigerated crescent rolls or cinnamon rolls. Notwithstanding that premade dough save time in kitchen, all of this recipes are equally good for dessert but for breakfast, too.
Check my latest apples and pumpkin recipes like: Caramel Apple Cinnamon Roll Lasagna, Pumpkin Pie Cinnamon Roll Casserole, Pumpkin Pie Bombs and Easy Apple Cheesecake Bars.
So you can have these delicious Apple Cinnamon Roll Cupcakes as a dessert. But they are totally acceptable as breakfast, too. They have fresh fruit and pastry. Well, OK, I know, they also have a lot of butter and sugar but hey are my favorite fall comfort food.
During rainy days when the weather is crisp, nothing can warm you up and make you feel good like these sweet and gooey Apple Cinnamon Roll Cupcakes!!! Just imagine wonderful warm smell of cinnamon and baked apples …I bet you are drooling right now!
If you like apples and pastries, make sure to check these recipes, too:
Caramel Apple Cinnamon Roll Lasagna
Choose your favorite and make a delicious Sunday breakfast to surprise for your family this fall.
Apple Cinnamon Roll Cupcakes
Prep Time: 10 minutes- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 25 minutes
Yield: 8 cupcakes 1x
Category: Dessert
Method: Oven
Cuisine: American
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Apple Cinnamon Roll Cupcakes are a delicious and easy fall dessert recipe with fresh apples, cinnamon sugar, refrigerated crescent roll dough and maple glaze. Making these gooey apple cinnamon rolls takes less than 30 minutes!
Ingredients
- 1 (8 oz.) tube of refrigerated crescent rolls or crescent dough sheet
- 1 medium apple- small diced
- 3 Tbsp. unsalted butter-melted (divided)
- 1/3 cup sugar (you can use half light brown sugar and half white granulated sugar)
- cinnamon-to taste ( I added about 3/4 teaspoon)
For the Glaze:
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon maple syrup
- 1 Tbsp. milk-or more to reach desired consistency
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F. Line cupcake pan with paper liners and set aside. You’ll have 8 rolls.
- On a sheet of parchment paper unroll crescent dough sheet. If using crescent rolls, seal the perforation to make large rectangle. Brush the dough with about 2 Tbsp. melted butter (reserve remaining butter for later use).
- Stir together cinnamon and sugar and sprinkle over melted butter. Scatter diced apples on top.
- Beginning on the long side of the rectangle, roll the dough into a log.
- Slice the log in 8 (1 ½ inch)pieces. Arrange pieces in paper liners.
- Brush the top with melted butter and bake until golden brown (about 15min). If it starts browning too quickly, tent the top with aluminum foil.
- Stir together glaze ingredients and spoon over slightly cooled cupcakes.
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36 comments
What dough would we need to make if we are unable to buy prepackaged crescent dough. I’m in Australia and have never seen this available. Recipe looks too good to pass by.
Hi Maxine, I don´t know what dough you could find there, maybe puff pastry sheet?
Maxinene, I also live in a foreign country. I found a recipe for crescent rolls online.
In the first photo there are 9 cinnamon rolls ( 3 rows of 3) but in the last photo there are only 6 ??? If you double it for a 13 x 9 pan would the baking time be the same?
Sorry, my question was for the caramel apple cinnamon roll lasagna!!!
Hi Dianna, there are 9 at the bottom, because it should cover bottom and sides. for 9 x 13 pan baking time will probably need more time to cook the center completely, but I haven´t tried.
I am pre-diabetic and have high cholesterol, but LOVE sweets! Do you have any ingredient substitutes so I can still enjoy these?
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I would like to sell these in my coffee shop. Do you have any idea how long they would stay good in a display case? What do you recommend heating them up lightly in the microwave to get them oven fresh again?
Hi Mary, I eat them whole day at room temperature and even from the fridge next day, and these were fine to my taste, but in case yo intend to sell these I think it would be OK to reheat them in microwave.
Delicious! What would be the best way to reheat for bunch ladies tomorrow night?
Hi Joan, you could use a microwave if you have.
Do these freeze well.
Hi Brenda, sorry, I haven’t tried to freeze these
Will make this it look easy and good
Thanks Pat:-)
I made these delicious cupcakes last week for an event and they were a big hit. I will be using this recipe often, since it is easy to prepare and these are sooooo good. They are also good the next day, taken directly from the frige and heated in the microwave for about 7 seconds.
Thanks Patricia 🙂 Happy to hear that 🙂
Enjoy
I have made these and they stick to the muffin paper…they certainly did not come out like yours in the photo….I tried them again …..Once again they stuck to the muffin paper…..unless your using parchment paper ….they will not work in regular muffin paper…..please advise what you are using as it was very disappointing to have such a ” crumble ” of dough and apples….your photo looks like they are regular muffin paper… even a pie filling will also stick to the paper…..as it contains sugar and caramelizes as its almost impossible not to stick. Waiting upon your reply. Thank you
Hi Jo, I did not have the problem with that.I peeled them really easy. Maybe you could tray to spray paper liners with nonstick cooking spray.
This is so simple and delicious. My children loved them. The crescent rolls did not hold well but came out good.
Hi Kiristy, I’m glad that your kids love them 🙂
Hi what kind of apple is requires ?
HI Dodo, you can use Granny Smith or Golden Delicious
Looks good have to try.
Thanks Richele 🙂
How long do you bake?
Hi Donna, bake about 15 minutes.
The dough looks so crusty on the outside and the apple and cinnamon along with the glaze is so enticing. I really like the idea of making this recipe as cupcakes in paper liners as it makes handling them so much easier. They can also be used as a snack for the kids this way too.
Hello Vera. I read all of posts in this blog. I think that this recipe is the best for me. Looks very tasty. If this bread sell in bakery, I will buy them. I really make this so if the first person to make bread, can I do it easily follow the recipe??
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Delicious! Did not use the glaze, instead I served them with a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream! 🙂
I ended up baking these for 20 minutes and they were still raw in the middle. I checked the oven temperature with an oven thermometer and it was fine. What went wrong?
Would I be able to use the same dough/crust I use for my apple pie?
I just made this last night. I only ending up using half the sugar cinnamon mixture, but otherwise made as directed. Everyone loved it, even my child who doesn’t like apples. I’m going to make it again tonight since I still have about half of the sugar mixture to use. I might add some blackberries this time. Thank you for a great recipe.
Could you use cinnamon rolls instead of crescent rolls?