caramel apple cinnamon rolls

Author: Michelle Keith/ The Village Cook

Ingredients

1 box hot roll mix, prepared according to cinnamon roll directions on side
2 apples, diced
1/2 cup caramel dip
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 tablespoons raisins
2 TBS butter

Instructions

Prepare dough and roll out into a rectangle.
Spread caramel over dough.
Meanwhile in a saucepan heat the apples and raisins and cinnamon in the butter until tender.
Place apples and raisins on top of the caramel
Roll up and slice in 1 ” sections
Bake in a preheated 375 oven for 15-17 minutes.

These are the perfect thing to eat on a Fall morning. They have that sugary-cinnamon apple smell that …well, is just so Fall.

You know what’s even better?

It’s pretty darn easy.

Yep. I used a boxed mix and a container of caramel.

I was not in the mood to make homemade caramel. I was in a no stove-top mood. Do you ever get those? Me too.

Although I did saute my diced apples, butter, cinnamon and sugar and raisins…. but they didn’t need as much help as caramel would have.

So… I used one of my favorite standbys:

see the side of the box? Yep… you do it that way except…

For the filling, you use one diced apple, 2 tbs brown sugar, 2 tsp cinnamon, a handful of raisins all sauted in a tablespoon of butter. Just cook em down a bit, so they don’t make your dough all soggy. Soggy dough sucks. Unless it’s money. Soggy money fresh from the washer is awesome.