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Caramel Apple Cinnamon Roll Bake

Averie Sunshine

4.67 from 12 votes

Updated: Sep 27, 2026

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Caramel Apple Cinnamon Roll Bake 🍏🍎 has the soft and gooey factor of a cinnamon rolls paired with apples and CARAMEL SAUCE! Easy, ready in 30 minutes, and uses store-bought cinnamon roll dough to save time! The EASY cozy fall breakfast, brunch, or dessert you’ve been looking for to take advantage of all those apples! 🍁

Easy Caramel Apple Cinnamon Roll Bake

• What’s better than cinnamon rolls? Cinnamon rolls with apples and caramel sauce, of course! I love cinnamon rolls and the moister, softer, and gooier they are, the better.
• This cinnamon roll casserole with apples delivers big time. It’s one of the best things I’ve made in ages. Seriously. The gooey factor of a Cinnabon plus apples and caramel sauce.
• The recipe is easy, ready in 30 minutes, and you don’t even have to make scratch cinnamon roll dough. I used two tubes of refrigerated Pillsbury cinnamon roll dough, chopped it into pieces, poured a milky egg mixture over the top, before adding apples, frosting, and caramel sauce.
• As the dough rises around the apples, the apples become trapped in the dough, and every bite is filled with tender, juicy apples that retain a tiny bit of crunch. A perfect contrast to the chewy, buttery dough. During baking the apples release juice and there’s a saucy, juicy, caramel mixture at the bottom of the pan that’s so incredibly delicious.
• After baking I added frosting and drizzled salted caramel over the top for an added boost of caramel flavor. Use homemade or storebought.
• The recipe is perfect for lazy weekend breakfasts, impromptu company, or a special holiday brunch or event. It tastes like you slaved over it but no one has to know you didn’t.

Apple Cinnamon Roll Bake Ingredients

This recipe is essentially doctored up cinnamon roll dough-in-a-tube with apples. I love it when store-bought shortcuts wind up tasting this good!

• Refrigerated cinnamon roll dough saves a ton of time and it’s how I tested this recipe. I used Pillsbury but you can use another trusted favorite. You can use reduced fat or regular cinnamon rolls. You’ll want two tubes of 8-count dough.
• Eggs, milk, ground cinnamon, vanilla extract combine and are poured over the cinnamon roll dough
• Granny Smith apples or your favorite crisp apples like gala, Fuji, Braeburn, or honey crisp
• Unsalted butter and brown sugar for cooking the apples
• Salted caramel sauce for garnishing or use the icing that’s included with the cinnamon roll dough – or use both!

Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.

How to Make Apple Cinnamon Roll Bake

To prepare the cinnamon roll casserole with apples, follow these basic steps (full instructions given in the recipe card below):

1. Cut each cinnamon roll into 9 equal pieces.
2. In a bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, spices, and vanilla.
3. Cook the diced apples in a skillet with melted butter and brown sugar. This process will take about 10 minutes.
4. Add the prepared cinnamon roll pieces to a foil-lined or greased 9-inch square pan. Top with the egg mixture, followed by the cooked apples.
5. Bake until the top is set in the center and lightly golden brown.
6. Serve the apple cinnamon roll bake OR you can top it with the frosting that came with the cinnamon rolls, additional homemade frosting and / or caramel sauce.

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4.67 from 12 votes

Caramel Apple Cinnamon Roll Bake

By Averie Sunshine

🍏🍎 Has the soft and gooey factor of a cinnamon rolls with apples and so much CARAMEL SAUCE! Easy, ready in 30 minutes, and uses store-bought cinnamon roll dough to save time! The EASY cozy fall breakfast, brunch, or dessert you've been looking for to take advantage of all those apples! 🍁

Double the recipe and bake in a 9×13-inch pan if you need a bigger batch.

Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes minutes

Total Time: 40 minutes minutes

Servings: 8 Servings

Equipment

• 9×9-inch baking pan

Ingredients 

Cinnamon Roll Bake

• ▢ two 8-count tubes refrigerated cinnamon roll dough, with icing (I used Pillsbury Cinnabon or regular Pillsbury; Reduced Fat also works)
• ▢ 4 large eggs
• ▢ ½ cup milk, (I used unsweetened cashewmilk; use your favorite milk)
• ▢ 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon, or to taste
• ▢ 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ▢ ½ teaspoon salt, or to taste
• ▢ 2 tablespoons unsalted butter butter
• ▢ 2 cups Granny Smith apples, diced small, (from about 2 large apples that have been cored and diced small, I did not peel)
• ▢ 1 cup light brown sugar, packed

Icing, optional

• ▢ use the icing included with the cinnamon rolls, OR
• ▢ 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
• ▢ 2 tablespoons cream or milk, (I used unsweetened cashewmilk)

Toppings for Serving, optional

• ▢ about 1/3 cup salted caramel sauce, (store bought or homemade), optional for serving
• ▢ vanilla ice cream or whipped topping, optional for serving

Instructions 

• Preheat oven to 375F. Line a 9×9-inch pan with foil if desired for easier cleanup, and spray with cooking spray, or spray pan very well with cooking spray; set aside.
• Cinnamon Roll Bake: Cut the cinnamon roll dough into 3 even strips, then cut those strips into 3 pieces, making 9 pieces total per cinnamon roll. Scatter in prepared pan, separating the pieces from one another because they stick together if you slice them in stacks; set pan and the icing from the packaging aside.
• To a medium bowl, add the eggs, 1/2 cup milk, cinnamon, vanilla, salt, and whisk until smooth; set aside.
• To a large skillet, add the butter and heat over medium-low heat to melt.
• Add the apples, brown sugar, and cook over low heat until the sugar starts to caramelize and thicken, about 10 minutes; stir frequently. Remove pan from heat; set aside.
• Pour the milky egg mixture over the cinnamon rolls, top with the apples and all the caramel sauce in the pan, and evenly drizzle the icing. If the icing is cold, heating it in the microwave for 10 seconds will make drizzling easier.
• Place pan on a baking sheet (insurance against overflow and highly recommended) and bake for about 30 minutes, or until the top is set in the center and lightly golden brown. Place pan on a wire rack to cool momentarily while you make the frosting.
• Icing, optional: Use the icing included with the cinnamon roll dough tubes.

  Or, if you want to make your own or want extra icing, to a medium bowl, add the confectioners’ sugar, 2 tablespoons cream or milk, and whisk to combine until smooth.
• Topping/Garnishing, optional: Evenly drizzle the frosting and the salted caramel over the rolls, and optionally serve with ice cream or whipped topping. Serve immediately.

Notes

Storage: Cinnamon rolls are best warm and fresh but will keep airtight at room temp for up to 2-3 days. If you plan on having leftovers for longer than that, you may want to store in the fridge. I like to zap my leftovers for a few seconds in the microwave prior to serving. 

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving, Calories: 250cal, Carbohydrates: 48g, Protein: 4g, Fat: 6g, Saturated Fat: 3g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 2g, Trans Fat: 0.1g, Cholesterol: 92mg, Sodium: 193mg, Potassium: 133mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 46g, Vitamin A: 255IU, Vitamin C: 1mg, Calcium: 67mg, Iron: 1mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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