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Butter Pecan Cake Mix Cinnamon Rolls

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These yummy cinnamon rolls are a delicious variation on a standard cinnamon roll using a Butter Pecan cake mix. They are topped with a creamy Salted Caramel Cream Cheese Glaze. The best cake mix cinnamon rolls ever!

Butter Pecan Cake Mix Cinnamon Rolls with Salted Caramel Glaze

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About Butter Pecan Cinnamon Rolls

My 9-year-old is obsessed with cinnamon rolls. The good and bad news for him is that they just built a Cinnabon location less than a mile from our house. It’s good news because he love them. It’s bad news because I would go broke if I bought him a delicious cinnamon roll from Cinnabon every time he wanted one.

Butter Pecan Cake Mix to make cake mix cinnamon rolls.

I like this recipe because the cake mix gives the dough an awesome sweet flavor. Also, you can use any flavor of cake mix that you want. Try French Vanilla, Devil’s Food, Lemon, or Red Velvet!

This Butter Pecan cake mix happened to catch my eye when I was at the store and I thought it would go perfect with salted caramel cream cheese icing. I was right!

Ingredients

*Ingredient amounts are located in the recipe card at the end of this post.

Cinnamon Rolls

  • 4 1/2 Teaspoons Yeast (or 2 packets)
  • 2 1/2 Cups Warm Water
  • 1 Butter Pecan Cake Mix, or your favorite cake mix
  • 5 1/2 Cups All-Purpose Flour
  • 1 Teaspoon Salt
  • 2 Eggs, beaten
  • 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  • 1/2 Cup Butter, softened
  • 2 Cups Brown Sugar
  • 2 Tablespoons Cinnamon

Directions

  • Combine the warm water with the yeast and set it aside while you prepare the dry ingredients.
Measuring cup of yeast and water for Cake Mix Cinnamon Rolls
  • Place the cake mix, flour and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer.
Dry ingredients in a mixing bowl for Butter Pecan Cake Mix Cinnamon Rolls
  • Add the yeast mixture, beaten eggs, vanilla and knead for 4-5 minutes.
Beaten Eggs for Cake Mix Cinnamon Rolls
  • Place the dough in a greased bowl and loosely cover with plastic wrap. Let it rise 45-60 minutes until it doubles in size.
Cake Mix Cinnamon Rolls dough in a bowl covered with plastic wrap.
  • Punch down the dough and place on a floured surface. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Cake Mix Cinnamon Rolls dough on a floured surface.
  • Use a rolling pin it into a rectangle about 1/4 inch thick.
Cake Mix Cinnamon Rolls dough rolled out topped with butter.
Cake Mix Cinnamon Rolls dough sprinkled with brown sugar and cinnamon.
  • Roll up the dough tightly into a large roll. 
  • Use dental floss to cut it into 24 rolls. The dental floss trick is pretty cool. I’ve always cut the dough with a knife and the rolls get smashed. That doesn’t happen with the floss.
Dental floss cutting Cake Mix Cinnamon Rolls dough into rolls.
  • Place the rolls in two 9×13 greased baking dishes. Sometimes I put half of the rolls into a disposable 9×13 and freeze them for later.
Raw Cake Mix Cinnamon Rolls in a baking dish.
  • Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Place the baking dishes in the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes, depending on how thick you cut the rolls.
Freshly baked Cake Mix Cinnamon Rolls in a baking dish.

Salted Caramel Glaze Ingredients

  • 1/2 Cup Butter, softened
  • 4 Ounces Cream Cheese, softened
  • 1/2 Tablespoon Vanilla Extract
  • 2 Tablespoons Caramel Ice Cream Topping
  • 1/4 Teaspoon Salt
  • 2 Cups Powdered Sugar
Butter Pecan Cake Mix Cinnamon Rolls with Salted Caramel Glaze in a baking dish.

Directions

  • Place the softened butter to the bowl of a stand mixer. Using the whisk attachment, whisk until nice and fluffy.
  • Add the softened cream cheese and vanilla and beat on low until combined. Then slowly increase the speed until fluffy. 
  • Mix in the powdered sugar a little at a time and beat until combined.
Butter Pecan Cinnamon Rolls with Salted Caramel Glaze

Butter Pecan Cake Mix Cinnamon Rolls with Salted Caramel Glaze

Yield: 24
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Passive Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time: 2 hours 20 minutes

These yummy cinnamon rolls are a delicious variation on a standard cinnamon roll using a Butter Pecan cake mix. They are topped with a creamy Salted Caramel Cream Cheese Glaze.

Ingredients

Cinnamon Rolls

  • 2 Packets yeast, 4 1/2 tsp
  • 2 1/2 Cups warm water
  • 1 Butter Pecan Cake Mix
  • 5 1/2 Cups All-Purpose Flour
  • 1 Teaspoon Salt
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 1 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract
  • 1/2 Cup butter, softened, 1/2 cup
  • 2 Cups brown sugar, more or less, as needed
  • 2 Tablespoons cinnamon, more or less, as needed

Salted Caramel Cream Cheese Glaze

  • 1/2 Cup butter, softened, 1/2 cup
  • 4 Ounces cream cheese, softened
  • 1/2 Tablespoon Vanilla Extract
  • 2 Tablespoons Caramel Ice Cream Toping
  • 1/4 Teaspoon Salt
  • 2 Cups powdered sugar

Instructions

Cinnamon Rolls

  1. Combine the warm water and yeast and let sit while preparing dry ingredients.
  2. Combine cake mix, flour and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer.
  3. Add the yeast mixture, beaten eggs and vanilla and knead for 4-5 minutes.
  4. Place the dough in a greased bowl and loosely cover with plastic wrap. Let it rise 45-60 minutes until it doubles in size.
  5. Punch down the dough and place on a floured surface.
  6. Roll it into a rectangle about 1/4 inch thick.
  7. Spread softened butter over the entire surface and sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon.
  8. Roll tightly into a large roll.
  9. Use dental floss to cut into 24 rolls and place in two 9x13 greased baking dishes.
  10. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place rolls in the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes, depending on how thick you cut the rolls.
  11. Remove from oven and frost with Salted Caramel Cream Cheese Glaze.

Salted Caramel Cream Cheese Glaze

  1. Add softened butter to the bowl of a stand mixer. Using the whisk attachment, whisk until nice and fluffy.
  2. Add softened cream cheese and vanilla and beat on low until combined. Then slowly increase the speed until fluffy.
  3. Add caramel and salt and beat some more.
  4. Add powdered sugar and beat until combined.
  5. Spread over the top of cinnamon rolls while they are still warm.

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Nelda Rosales

Tuesday 26th of May 2020

Can you use instant yeast on this recipe?

Mindy

Tuesday 2nd of June 2020

Yes :)

Helen

Thursday 19th of April 2018

So very good. My adult son said the cinnamon rolls were flipping awesome. The only recipe I will be using. Thank you.

mindymoser

Wednesday 23rd of May 2018

Yay! I'm so glad you liked them :)

Regina

Monday 4th of December 2017

Can you freeze these before baking?

mindymoser

Thursday 7th of December 2017

Yes! I do it all the time. When I do that, I usually put them in the refrigerator the night before I want to bake them so they can thaw out.

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