Loaded Cinnamon Roll/Cookie Cups
These Loaded Cinnamon Roll and Cookie Cups are the ultimate dessert base for any topping you love. Soft, warm cinnamon rolls or cookies are baked into cup shapes, ready to be filled with frosting, fruit, chocolate, peanut butter, or anything else you crave. Perfect for parties, holidays, or an easy customizable treat.
Equipment
- muffin baking pan (any size)
Ingredients
- Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls or cookie ingredients
- topping Nutella, caramel, frosting, chocolate chips, marshmallow, peanut butter, fruits, fluff, etc.
Instructions
- Take the cinnamon rolls out of the package and place one in each of the muffin tin cavities. For cookie cups, make the cookie dough and place cookie dough balls in the muffin cavities. If you’re using a small or large muffin pan, you may need to adjust accordingly.
- Place uncooked cinnamon rolls in a muffin baking pan.
- I used a normal sized muffin baking pan and placed one full sized cinnamon roll in each.
- Bake as directed – when in doubt, bake a few minutes less to reduce the chance of burning.
- Take out of oven and immediately create a well in the middle of the rolls or cookies by using your hands or a utensil. These should resemble cup shapes.
- Let cool for 30 minutes in muffin tray.
- Fill ’em up!
- Store at room temperature, fridge, or freezer depending on toppings. Cinnamon roll and cookie cups by themselves will be fine at room temperature for a few days. If using the fridge, place a piece of bread or two in the same storage container with the cups to keep them from drying out.
- Try them after microwaving for a few seconds!
Notes
- These are a great way to get rid of excess ingredients. Have some leftover frosting or toppings? Bake these cups and throw those leftovers in!
- Placing bread with baked goods keeps them from drying out and getting hard.
- I thought of these after visiting Knead Donuts café in Providence, Rhode Island. In their front display case, a large, center-collapsed cinnamon roll was on display. It had looked like the middle had collapsed from the heavy frosting sitting on top for too long. But this looked tasty, and I imagined myself biting into this large cinnamon cup and having the warm cream cheese ooze out. Being an idiot, I thought it was supposed to look like this and was excited to take a bite. Unfortunately, they served me a regular iced cinnamon roll! That evening, I decided to put this recipe to work!
