Cinnamon Roll Pumpkins
How do you make a cinnamon roll even better (if that’s even possible)? You turn it into a pumpkin, of course!
While these are made with store bought regular cinnamon roll dough, there’s plenty of ways to change these up and make them your own. Of course, you could make them from scratch (that’s on my list to do this fall!) but you could also swap the regular store-bought dough for the pumpkin flavored kind to get maximize the pumpkin vibes.
I used Annie’s Cinnamon Rolls. They’re my favorite pre-made dough cinnamon rolls, both for taste and for the fact they plump up so well in the oven. Whatever dough you use, you’ll want one that really fluffs up nicely so that you can get those cute lines in the rolls that will make them look like little pumpkins.
Watch the Reel or Tiktok to see how I made them!
Cinnamon Roll Pumpkins
Equipment
- Baking Dish
- Bakers Twine
- Food Dye
Ingredients
- 1 Can Cinnamon Roll Dough
Instructions
- Remove your dough from the can in stacks of two (try to keep the stack together when they come out so they're essentially one piece of dough).
- Trim a 1-2inch piece of dough off of one of the rolls and set aside to use for the stems.
- Take your bakers twine and wrap around your dough, crossing over the twine as you go until you have 8 equal sections. Tie off right in the top center of the rolls.
- Cut and shape your extra piece of dough to look like small stems and add to baking sheet.
- Bake for about 25 minutes (or when cooked through). The stems will bake much quicker, so remove them when cooked through so they don't burn (approximately 15 minutes).
- When you remove the buns from the oven, create an indent in the center of the rolls using a blunt object (like the handle end of a butter knife). You'll want to do this while they're fresh from the oven before they set, but be careful as they'll be hot!
- While buns cool, mix icing with a drop of red and a drop of yellow food coloring and mix well until it looks orange.
- Once cooled, cut bakers twin and remove all twine from the rolls.
- Cover buns with icing, and before icing is set place your stem in the center of each roll.
