Christmas is the perfect blend of so many things: food and family, peppermint and chocolate, silver and gold, holly and ivy. The same thought applies to this recipe, imagine a croissant and cinnamon roll got married and had a baby—a dough baby! You can go from no cinnamon rolls to a plate full in a Designing Women episode! Hence the name “Fake It Til You Make It”! No proofing of dough, blooming your yeast, or taking hours to make, like a traditional cinnamon roll from scratch—no ma'am! Could you use a canned cinnamon roll? Yes. But do they have the flaky, tender texture of a croissant? No! Take the filling of the cinnamon roll and combine that with crescent roll dough, and voila you have a pan full of the cutest and sweetest mini cinnamon rolls, or “cinni-minis”.
**To fill a cake pan, this recipe is doubled, cut in half to only make 12 rolls
Makes 24 rolls
Ingredients:
-2 cans of crescent roll dough
-8 tablespoons (1 stick) of softened butter, split in half
-2 tablespoons of sugar
-1 tablespoon of cinnamon
-2 tsp of nutmeg
Icing:
-4 tablespoons of butter, melted
-a scant 1/2 cup powdered sugar
-you can add a splash of water or milk if you need to thin it out at bit!
Method:
Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees and grease your preferred pan.
Combine sugar and spices into a bowl and mix—set to the side.
Take out the crescent roll dough and pinch the seams shut for each roll. Smooth out with a floured rolling pin or your hands.
On each rolled out dough, spread out 4 tablespoons of butter. Take care not to melt butter completely, as it will push out when rolled.
Sprinkle half of sugar/cinnamon/spice mixture on each.
Starting at the top, roll down tightly, and bottom pinch seams together for each dough.
Cut each dough rolls into 12 equal pieces, getting 24 rolls total.
Place in baking pan, touching each other.
Place in oven and bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden.
While rolls have 5 minutes left baking, combine melted butter and powdered sugar. Whisk together until icing forms.
Frost rolls immediately, once out of the oven.
Enjoy!
Pre-frosting and still adorable!