Cinnamon Rolls with Gingerbread Cream Cheese Frosting
Christmas is right around the corner and the recipes for cookies and gingerbread will be flooding out Pinterest feeds soon, so I wanted to think a little outside the box and came up with these easy to make Cinnamon Rolls with Gingerbread Cream Cheese Frosting.
I know that’s a mouthful but trust me, they’re so easy. You’ll have these cinnamon rolls done from prep to oven in less than 25 minutes. The secret ingredients in these new favorite Christmas desserts are the crescent rolls. A few months ago I was inspired by Stacie’s Mini Rum Butter Cinnamon Rolls and created my own Pumpkin Pie Cinnamon Rolls over on The Bewitchin’ Kitchen.
There are so many things you can do with crescent rolls. I’ve made hand pies, turnovers, and cinnamon rolls. All you have to do is simply pinch together the seams, lay out the melted butter and pack on the cinnamon mixture. (PS – the leftover cinnamon mixture makes a really nice hand scrub after, like this Chocolate Sugar Scrub).
Ingredients
Cinnamon Rolls
- Pillsbury crescent rolls
- Salted butter
- Sugar
- Brown sugar
- Cinnamon
Gingerbread Frosting
- Cream cheese
- Vanilla Greek yogurt
- Brown sugar
- Fancy molasses
- Cinnamon
- Ginger
How to Make Cinnamon Rolls with Gingerbread Cream Cheese Frosting
The full printable recipe card with measurements and instructions is found at the bottom of the post.
Cinnamon Rolls
- Step One: Preheat oven to 375°F.
- Step Two: Pop open the can of crescent rolls and roll out flat. Pinch the seams together to make one large rectangle.
- Step Three: Pour the melted butter over the dough, and then sprinkle the sugars and cinnamon. Rub it all together.
- Step Four: Roll the cinnamon rolls and cut into 9, 1-inch pieces.
- Step Five: Spray a pie dish with non-stick spray and lay the 9 pieces.
- Step Six: Bake for 18-20 minutes.
Gingerbread Cream Cheese Frosting
- Step One: Mix all the ingredients together in a medium mixing bowl.
- Step Two: When the cinnamon rolls come out of the oven, let cool for five minutes.
- Step Three: Pour the frosting over the rolls.
Seriously, can it get any easier than that? Not only is this recipe easy, but it’s fast. It’s ready in under 25 minutes, so it’s perfect for surprise guests “popping in” around the holidays.
The gingerbread cream cheese frosting is my recipe for Gingerbread Dessert Dip (from The Bewitchin’ Kitchen) but cut in half. I knew it would work beautifully for these cinnamon rolls and I was right.
These cinnamon rolls are so easy to put together. Crescent rolls, butter, sugar, brown sugar, and cinnamon is all the makes up the rolls themselves and the gingerbread cream cheese frosting recipe is a creamy, holiday infused topping. If you want to add a little extra gingerbread to the recipe, you can sprinkle crushed gingerbread over top of the frosting.
Try my Biscuit Cinnamon Rolls, Mini Rum Butter Cinnamon Rolls, Cheesecake Stuffed Cinnamon Rolls and Cinnamon Bread, too!
What is your favorite way to enjoy cinnamon rolls?
You’ll also like Gingerbread Waffles, Gingerbread Cupcakes and Gingerbread Latte.
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Cinnamon Rolls with Gingerbread Cream Cheese Frosting
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Ingredients
Cinnamon Rolls
- 1 package Pillsbury crescent rolls
- ¼ cup salted butter melted
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 ½ tsp cinnamon
Gingerbread Frosting
- ½ cup cream cheese
- ¼ cup vanilla Greek yogurt
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 1 ⅕ tbsp fancy molasses
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp ginger
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
For the Cinnamon Rolls
- Pop open the can of crescent rolls and roll out flat. Pinch the seams together to make one large rectangle.
- Pour the melted butter over the dough, and then sprinkle the sugars and cinnamon. Rub it all together.
- Roll the cinnamon rolls and cut into 9, 1-inch pieces.
- Spray a pie dish with non-stick spray and lay the 9 pieces.
- Bake for 18-20 minutes.
- While baking mix together the gingerbread frosting.
For the Gingerbread Frosting
- Mix all the ingredients together in a medium mixing bowl.
- When the cinnamon rolls come out of the oven, let cool for five minutes.
- Pour the frosting over the rolls.
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This recipe looks amazing! What a creative idea using crescent dough! Visiting from the blog hop. Check out my fantastic Lemon Zucchini Coconut bread later if you are in the baking mood!
How decadent and yummy. A perfect dish for the holidays using gingerbread. Thanks for sharing at DI&DI.
I can’t wait to make a pan of these fabulous rolls! Hope you have a great week and thanks so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
Miz Helen
this looks absolutely amazing. i need to have one!
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Hii 🙂 I have an obsession with cinnamon rolls, in fact a just posted a cinnamon roll recipe today on my blog, but these look and sound INSANE! I would love to try this gingerbread cream cheese frosting but do you know a good substitute for the molasses? 🙂 thank you and beautiful pics! Xx
I have made cinnamon rolls loads of time using crescent rolls and we just love them… but the addition of gingerbread cream cheese frosting?! That is just brilliant!! Pinned.
Thank you so much for pinning 🙂 Have a great weekend!
These look so delicious that I can practically smell them cooking! Totally doable with the canned rolls, too. Pinned!
PINNED. This looks wonderful. Best wishes, Linda @Crafts a la mode
Thank you for sharing Linda!
These look amazing!
These look delicious! Pinning!
These look divine– I can’t even *handle* that frosting, oh my goodness. 🙂
It’s so darn good!
Oh wow! These sound like heaven rolled into a perfect bun.
They look delicious – must try this recipe. I usually just make traditional cinnamon buns with brown sugar and cinnamon.
How stinking smart are these?! Using crescent rolls to make them is genius. I love easy breakfast ideas. Thanks!
They’re so easy too! I’ve done a few like this now.
I love the gingerbread cream cheese frosting!! That sounds so amazing and these look so easy. Perfect for Christmas morning!
They’re a great idea for Christmas morning because they’re so easy!
This is a perfect treat on a cold morning.
The Cinnamon Rolls with Gingerbread Cream Cheese Frosting looks so delicious! I want to make this for Thanksgiving and have as a dessert for family and friends. We would love it!
This looks good like to have some
I love cinnamon rolls, and these look amazingly yummy!
These look so good! I am going to make them as soon as I get all the ingredients.