Apple Walnut Cinnamon Rolls

Description

A good combo of apple pie and cinnamon rolls for the ones with a sweet tooth. Top with whipped cream!

Ingredients

  • 2 (8 ounce) cans refrigerated crescent rolls
  • ½ cup white sugar
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
  • ¼ cup crushed walnuts
  • 1 Golden Delicious apple, diced
  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1 ½ cups white sugar
  • 1 (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle caffeinated citrus-flavored soda (such as Mountain Dew®)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9×13-inch baking dish.
  2. Roll 1 can of crescent rolls out on a cutting board. Make one single piece of dough by rolling the dough with a rolling pin to a 9×13-inch rectangle; make sure the seams don’t separate. Repeat with remaining can of crescent rolls. Set 1 dough sheet atop the other to make a double crust.
  3. Mix 1/2 cup white sugar
  4. brown sugar
  5. cinnamon
  6. crushed walnuts
  7. and diced apples in a bowl. Sprinkle evenly over the dough.
  8. Roll the dough lengthwise
  9. so you end up with a long tube. Cut into 1-inch slices. Place the rolls into prepared dish facing up.
  10. Melt butter with 1 1/2 cup white sugar in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Cook and stir until sugar dissolves completely
  11. about 5 minutes. Remove saucepan from heat and whisk citrus-flavored soda into the butter mixture; pour over cinnamon rolls.
  12. Bake in preheated oven until golden brown and no longer doughy in the middle
  13. about 30 minutes. Set aside to cool slightly
  14. 5 to 10 minutes. Flip the rolls out of the baking dish onto baking sheet and allow the sticky sauce to drip over the rolls.

Prep Time: 30 mins

Cook Time: 35 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins

Servings: 8

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