For those with a sweet tooth, apple pie and cinnamon rolls make a tasty combination. Add whipped cream on top!
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Cook Time: | 35 mins |
| Additional Time: | 5 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 10 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 8 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 (8 ounce) cans refrigerated crescent rolls
- ½ cup white sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ cup crushed walnuts
- 1 Golden Delicious apple, diced
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 ½ cups white sugar
- 1 (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle caffeinated citrus-flavored soda (such as Mountain Dew®)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9×13-inch baking dish.
- Roll 1 can of crescent rolls out on a cutting board. Make one single piece of dough by rolling the dough with a rolling pin to a 9×13-inch rectangle; make sure the seams don’t separate. Repeat with remaining can of crescent rolls. Set 1 dough sheet atop the other to make a double crust.
- Mix 1/2 cup white sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, crushed walnuts, and diced apples in a bowl. Sprinkle evenly over the dough.
- Roll the dough lengthwise, so you end up with a long tube. Cut into 1-inch slices. Place the rolls into prepared dish facing up.
- Melt butter with 1 1/2 cup white sugar in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Cook and stir until sugar dissolves completely, about 5 minutes. Remove saucepan from heat and whisk citrus-flavored soda into the butter mixture; pour over cinnamon rolls.
- Bake in preheated oven until golden brown and no longer doughy in the middle, about 30 minutes. Set aside to cool slightly, 5 to 10 minutes. Flip the rolls out of the baking dish onto baking sheet and allow the sticky sauce to drip over the rolls.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 696 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 87 g |
| Cholesterol | 61 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 5 g |
| Saturated Fat | 18 g |
| Sodium | 613 mg |
| Sugars | 68 g |
| Fat | 38 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I had a couple of cans of crescent rolls that needed to be used and some workers here I thought deserved a treat, so I looked for a recipe to use them. As I read through the ingredients for this my brain was saying “Don’t do it!” but I didn’t listen. I should have. Think about it! Think about the amount of sugar in this thing (and sugar is one of my favorite food groups!) and especially the amount of liquid that is going to get poured over these strips of dough. A cup of melted butter and 1 1/2 cups of soda! I wish I had taken a photo, but didn’t think to. After the allotted time, plus 7-8 more minutes, they were still swimming in syrup and more like boiled dough. After removing them from the pan there was still a good 3/4 cup of syrup and you wouldn’t have wanted to add that on. If you are still going to go ahead and make these, at least use some of the butter on the dough before sprinkling on the cinnamon. It all wants to slide off as you roll it, and creates a dry surface that doesn’t want to stick to itself to keep them rolled up. And seriously consider cutting down the amount of sugar, butter and pop (remember, a can of Mountain Dew has 46 grams of sugar alone!)
I had a couple of cans of crescent rolls that needed to be used and some workers here I thought deserved a treat, so I looked for a recipe to use them. As I read through the ingredients for this my brain was saying “Don’t do it!” but I didn’t listen. I should have. Think about it! Think about the amount of sugar in this thing (and sugar is one of my favorite food groups!) and especially the amount of liquid that is going to get poured over these strips of dough. A cup of melted butter and 1 1/2 cups of soda! I wish I had taken a photo, but didn’t think to. After the allotted time, plus 7-8 more minutes, they were still swimming in syrup and more like boiled dough. After removing them from the pan there was still a good 3/4 cup of syrup and you wouldn’t have wanted to add that on. If you are still going to go ahead and make these, at least use some of the butter on the dough before sprinkling on the cinnamon. It all wants to slide off as you roll it, and creates a dry surface that doesn’t want to stick to itself to keep them rolled up. And seriously consider cutting down the amount of sugar, butter and pop (remember, a can of Mountain Dew has 46 grams of sugar alone!)
I made these exactly as the recipe said. They taste delicious and I will try them again! My only issue was that the liquid poured over the top didn’t all soak in so they were soggy on the bottom. Next time I think I will try to bake it at a lower temp and for longer.
I did not have any Mountain Dew, but I did find a can of grapefruit beer in the fridge. It worked rather well and the buns disappeared in seconds. Yum
I will definitely make it again…DELICIOUS!
12.19.15 Unfortunately, I didn’t hear the timer go off, the rolls overbaked, the topping cooked down, and the rolls stuck to the bottom of the baking dish…my bad, my fault, not the recipe’s!! So I’ve posted a less than attractive photo of this tasty recipe. Next time I make them (there will be a next time), I’ll upload a better photo. In spite of my screwing up Jenny’s recipe, they were easy to make, and tasted wonderful. The store had Pillsbury® Honey Butter Crescent Rolls, so that’s what I used. Decadent for sure, but worth a splurge every now and then.