Depending on what I have in my fridge, I frequently make this salad in different variations with different amounts of bell pepper, tomato, or feta cheese. Bell peppers with a variety of colors look the best. Using the dressing on other salads is also possible, and it is really simple to make.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 25 mins |
| Additional Time: | 3 hrs |
| Total Time: | 3 hrs 45 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 12 muffins |
Ingredients
- 12 frozen dinner rolls (such as Rhodes®)
- cooking spray
- ½ cup white sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons ground cinnamon
- ¼ cup butter, melted
- 2 apple – peeled, cored, and chopped
- ¼ cup golden raisins
- ½ cup cream cheese, at room temperature
- ½ cup confectioners’ sugar
- 3 tablespoons heavy whipping cream, or more as needed
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Put frozen rolls on a baking sheet, spray a piece of plastic wrap with cooking spray and place over rolls. Let rise until doubled in size, about 3 hours.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a muffin tin with paper liners.
- Mix white sugar, brown sugar, and cinnamon together in a bowl. Place melted butter in a small bowl.
- Grab approximately 1 tablespoon of thawed and risen dough and roll into a ball. Dip the ball in the melted butter and roll in the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Repeat to fill each muffin liner with 3 buttered and sugared dough balls.
- Combine apples and raisins in a bowl. Sprinkle about 1 teaspoon apple-raisin mixture over each muffin.
- Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, about 25 minutes.
- Beat cream cheese, confectioners’ sugar, whipping cream, and vanilla extract together in a bowl until glaze is smooth, 3 to 5 minutes. Drizzle glaze over muffins.
- When you are making the dough balls, stick any extra onto some of the muffins to make them larger.
- If the glaze is too thick, add a bit more cream.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 308 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 48 g |
| Cholesterol | 28 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 5 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Sodium | 274 mg |
| Sugars | 26 g |
| Fat | 11 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This recipe was rich, comforting and decadent. Based off of another review, I decided to cut my apples and rolls smaller and made two layers then topped with apples. I tossed my apples with some of the cinnamon / sugar mixture. I also did a little drizzle of heavy whipping cream over each muffin before baking to make for a soft gooey center. Highly recommend!
The kids and my husband loved these. However, a lot of the apples fell off the top onto the pan. I suggest putting them in after two of the dough balls, then topping with the third dough ball. Also, I had about twice as much cinnamon sugar mixture as I needed.