Chocolate Cinnamon Rolls – Quick and easy Chocolate Cinnamon Rolls made with refrigerated dough, chocolate chips, and cinnamon.
Heeey! How goes it? How was your weekend?
Mine, you ask? It was FABULOUS!
Well, apart from ruining our freshly painted walls and bumping my kid’s head into the car door. Other than that it was all good! I even got to pretty up and go out! First stop was a cutie’s FIRST birthday, and then we continued our Sunday-Funday by going to our Church picnic.
Good times!
But, you know what this story is really about?
This is a story all about how I wanted to have some cinnamon rolls, but I wanted them right then and now!
So cheesy… I know! I can’t help myself!
Very often I make something and think how in the world did I live without this awesomeness? Just, how?!
You’re probably thinking She is craaaaazy, trying to convince me to roll out dough and bake for hours in this hot-mess of a weather! But, the beauty of these Chocolate Cinnamon Rolls is that you don’t have to do much work. Actually, these should just be renamed and called lazy cinnamon rolls. You don’t have to roll nothin’, you don’t have to wait for any dough to rise, fall, or whatever comes in between those two. Today it is all about the refrigerated dough, baby!
The first time I made these, I wanted to shoot myself because they are too freakin’ easy to make, which is why I have made them gazillion times in the last 2 months. AND they are GOOOOOD! Oh goodness, they are amazing! I could not stop eating them. I THANK Pillsbury for putting only 8 rolls in a can. Swear, if they have to start rolling me out of my house, it will be because of these rolls. For reals. I am not kidding. You just wait. You’ll see. Make them. You won’t be able to stop yourself.
Go and pick up a can of Crescent Rounds and some chocolate chips. You can thank me later. (You’re welcome) ;-D
In case you are looking for an authentic Cinnamon Rolls recipe, click over and save the recipe to these pretty incredible Cinnamon Rolls with Pecans and Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting.
ENJOY!
Chocolate Cinnamon Rolls
Ingredients
- 1 can Crescent Rounds Dough
- 2 tablespoons butter , melted
- ¼ cup sugar
- ½ tablespoon cinnamon
- ½ cup mini chocolate chips , chopped
- 2 tablespoons milk
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Lightly grease an 8-inch cake pan with non-stick spray; set aside.
- Separate dough into 8 rolls and unroll.
- Brush each piece of dough with melted butter.
- In a small bowl, mix together cinnamon and sugar.
- Evenly divide and sprinkle a generous amount of cinnamon-sugar over each roll.
- Evenly divide chopped chocolate and spread over cinnamon-sugar.
- Carefully roll up each dough, pinching seams together.
- Arrange the rolls 1 inch apart in the prepared cake pan.
- Bake for 15 to 17 minutes, or until tops are golden brown.
- In the meantime prepare the vanilla glaze.
- Place milk, vanilla, and powdered sugar in a small saucepan and cook over medium-heat, stirring constantly just until combined and no lumps appear.
- Remove cinnamon rolls from oven and immediately brush rolls with prepared glaze.
- Serve.
Nutrition
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These look so good! Going to make them this weekend!
Love that the topping looks crunchy! Can´t go wrong with no-knead cinnamon rolls, no matter the weather.
Scrolling on your page my heart skilled a beat as I spotted these cinnamon rolls. BEAUTIFUL! I cannot wait to make these!
Thank you!! I think you will LOVE ’em! 🙂
AMAZING! Please, give me the whole pan for breakfast…
Chocolate and cinnamon rolls together.. all I can say is Halleluiah!
These look soooooo good! And anything with chocolate and cinnamon gets a big thumbs up from me.
Thank you, Jennifer!! 🙂
These look scrumptious, Kate!!!
Don’t worry-the other day at the beach I was trying to give my 13 month old water and she was taking a swig at it so fast that I dumped water all over her-she laughed but I felt so bad!
I am always stumped for breakfast ideas-might try this one!
This is a breakfast meal that you’ll want to have again, and again, and again… ;-D
I could see that these could become very addicting!
These loos so good and pretty simply. These might be one of the first things I bake in my new place!
Congrats on your new place! Ooooh these would be a great treat to welcome yourself to your new home!! 🙂
I love recipes using crescent roll dough! These look totally amazing Kate. Yum!
Oh, non-rolling cinnamon rolls!! I almost cried over a sticky pie crust dough yesterday, this is just what I need!
Love the photos!!
Oh yeah…my family would love these! And so easy. You rock. Um….you hit your child’s head on the car door? Dude!
Trying to save a sandwich… I know!!! LOL! 🙂
These look SO amazing!!
wonderful weekends all around! these look amazing.
Simple, easy and just a couple of ingredients? Yeah, I’m going to need to make an emergency grocery run for some crescent rounds!
Beauties, these look irresistible!
Thank you, sweetheart!