Salted Caramel Apple Cinnamon Rolls Recipe

Cinnamon rolls are already amazing, but the Tasty Recipes tutorial on YouTube takes it up a notch for the Fall season with salted caramel apple cinnamon rolls. This is a sweet dessert that can be enjoyed for breakfast or as a late-night snack. This recipe gave me a new perspective on what you can do to a cinnamon roll. I love how creative this is because there are many people who love cinnamon rolls and having a festive tasting feel that’s fall-ified.

Ingredients:

Dough:

• ½ cup unsalted butter, melted
• 2 cups whole milk, warm to the touch
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• 2 ¼ teaspoons active dry yeast
• 5 cups flour, divided
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 teaspoons salt

Filling:

• ¾ cup butter softened
• ¾ cup light brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
• 2 granny smith apples, sliced into 1/4 in (6 mm) wedges
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• unsalted butter, for greasing

Salted Caramel Sauce:

• 1 cup sugar
• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
• ½ cup heavy cream, room temperature
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ¼ teaspoon flaky sea salt

Directions:

First, start off by watching the Tasty Recipes tutorial on YouTube to prepare the dough and filling for the cinnamon rolls. Once finished with the apples and dough, line up the apples all across the cinnamon roll dough.

Next, while the cinnamon rolls are baking in the oven for 25-30 minutes at 350F, make the salted caramel sauce on the stovetop.

I’m not a big caramel person, but I would love to make this for my friends. The thin-sliced Granny Smith apples in the cinnamon roll are like eating a sweeter apple pie. It’s like having the best of both worlds if you like apples and cinnamon rolls. For some reason, I do not like cooked fruits, so any desserts that have a fruit filling push me the other direction.