Upside Down Apple Cinnamon Roll Cake

Upside Down Apple Cinnamon Roll Cake is like giant cinnamon roll, only better having cream cheese filling and ooey-gooey homemade caramel sauce and fresh apples on top. Serve it up for breakfast or brunch, or simply as a dessert or snack. It’s so delicious and comforting, perfect for fall baking season!

Upside Down Apple Cinnamon Roll Cake

This Upside Down Apple Cinnamon Roll Cake is made with refrigerated crescent roll dough, so it means less work from the start. For this recipe you’ll also use peeled and sliced fresh apples, no need to cook them first. Although, the recipe calls for homemade caramel sauce, no worries! It’s done in just 5 minutes!

So let’s start making this yummilicious upside down giant cinnamon roll!

How to Make Upside Down Apple Cinnamon Roll Cake?

First make caramel sauce. In a saucepan over medium heat melt ¾ cup butter, add ¼ cup heavy cream, then stir in sugar, salt, corn syrup and vanilla. Then let it boil for 2-3 minutes until it starts thickening. Save half of the caramel for serving and pour remaining sauce in prepared pan. Let it cool slightly before start arranging apples in the bottom of the pan.

Peel 2-3 apples and cut in ¼ inch thick slices, then arrange apples over caramel sauce. They will sink in caramel, but that’s OK!

Next melt 2 Tablespoons butter and set aside.

Make cinnamon-sugar combining 1/3 cup of light brown sugar and 2 teaspoons cinnamon. Feel free to add more cinnamon to taste.

To make cream cheese filling, mix cream cheese with ¼ cup sugar and vanilla and set aside.

Now open tubes of refrigerated crescent rolls or crescent dough sheet. If using crescent rolls pinch the perforation to seal it well.

On the first sheet of crescent dough spread cream cheese mixture. Top it with second crescent dough sheet. Brush with melted butter and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Tap it gently with your hands so it will stick better to the butter and make the next step easier.

Next, cut the stripes 1-inch wide maximum. If the stripes are too wide, the cake will be too tall and overflow the pan and won’t cook completely in the center, too.

Now comes the hardest part of the work. I suggest you place the dough for a few minutes in the freezer, to cool it slightly and make it easier to roll.

Roll one stripe in the spiral and place in the center of the pan. Gently lift second stripe and wrap around the center. Continue adding the strips around the roll, starting each additional strip where the last one ended in the roll. Don’t wrap it to tightly, because the dough need space to spread while rising during baking process or it will stay raw in the center.

When ready to bake preheat the oven to 350 F and place the pan on a large baking sheet lined with paper, because the caramel might bubble and leak from the pan.

This cake will need about 1 hour-1 hour and 15 minutes to bake. The top will probably start browning too much so tent it loosely with aluminum foil. After baking, cool it for 30 minutes in the pan before inverting on a serving plate.

When ready to serve reheat the caramel sauce if it’s to thick and drizzle on top of each slice.

Enjoy!

This party-sized, giant cinnamon roll is super gooey and comforting! It’s sure to wow your guests this fall!

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