This cinnamon roll cake is made with boxed cake mix and cinnamon sugar swirls covered in a sweet vanilla glaze for all the delicious flavors of a cinnamon roll with much less of the fuss.
Cinnamon Roll Cake
From the recipe collection of Tara Ippolito
This super easy to make cinnamon roll cake provides all the delicious flavors of a cinnamon roll with way less work.
My kids absolutely love cinnamon rolls but making them from scratch can be such a hassle. I usually just wind up skipping making them all together or buying the premade kind in a tube.
Luckily I found this cake and it instantly became one of their favorites. They ask me to make this for them all the time now.
It’s kind of a cross between “made from scratch” and premade.
Using boxed cake mix is alone is a huge short cut. Not to mention, you get to skip over rolling each cinnamon roll by hand.
This is a quick and super easy to make dessert that’s sure to be a crowd pleaser.
Bring it to potlucks, holidays, parties or any get together where there’s going to be people with a sweet tooth.
This is sure to be a huge hit!
I hope you give this recipe a try. If you do, I know you’ll love this just as much as my family and I do.
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Cinnamon Roll Cake Variations
I love this cake recipe made just the way it is, but here are some ways to change it up if you’d like to.
- Cake Mix- If you prefer to use a homemade yellow cake recipe for this recipe please do so.
- Butter- Melting the butter first will make the cinnamon sugar mixture easier to swirl but it will also settle it into the cake more instead of keeping it on the top. It’s up to you how you prefer it.
- Glaze- Add about 4 oz of softened cream cheese to thicken the glaze at the end if you’d like to.
Other Easy Boxed Cake Dessert Recipes
If you like easy to make dessert recipes like this one that use boxed cake mix, here are some others that I know you’ll love, too.
- Peanut Butter Poke Cake
- Chocolate Cherry Dump Cake
- Peach Cobbler Dump Cake
- 3 Ingredient Blueberry Cobbler
Cinnamon Roll Cake Ingredients
- Yellow Cake Mix ( and the ingredients to make it BUT replace the water with milk)
- Brown Sugar
- Butter, softened
- Flour
- Cinnamon
- Powdered Sugar
- Vanilla Extract
- Milk
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350°
First, make the yellow cake mix according to the directions on the back of the packaging but replace the water with milk.
Now, add the mixture to a 9” x 13” baking dish thats been sprayed with cooking.
Then, in a small bowl, mix together the softened butter, brown sugar, flour and cinnamon.
Next, add dollops of the brown sugar mixture to the top of the cake mix.
Now, using a butter knife, swirl the brown sugar mixture into the cake.
Then, bake the cake for 30 minutes or until the cake is cooked all the way through.
Next, in a small bowl, whisk together the powdered sugar, milk and vanilla and pour the glaze over the warm cake.
Finally, let it cool, and serve at room temperature and enjoy!
Cinnamon Roll Cake
Ingredients
- 1 box Yellow Cake Mix ( and the ingredients to make it BUT replace the water with milk)
- 1 cup Brown Sugar
- 1 ½ sticks Butter, softened
- 2 tbs Flour
- 1 tbs Cinnamon
FOR THE GLAZE
- 2 cups Powdered Sugar
- 1 tbs Vanilla Extract
- 5 tbs Milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°
- Make the yellow cake mix according to the directions on the back of the packaging but replace the water with milk.
- Add the mixture to a 9” x 13” baking dish thats been sprayed with cooking spray.
- In a small bowl, mix together the softened butter, brown sugar, flour and cinnamon.
- Add dollops of the brown sugar mixture to the top of the cake mix and using a butter knife, swirl the brown sugar mixture into the cake.
- Bake the cake for 30 minutes or until the cake is cooked all the way through.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the powdered sugar, milk and vanilla and pour the glaze over the warm cake.
- Finally, let it cool, and serve at room temperature and enjoy!
Cc Evans says
The brown sugar mixture needs more flour and less sugar. Overall it was ok. I always make a recipe the 1st time as written. If my family likes the taste combination but doesn’t like 1 or 2 things, than I tweak it. However after everyone gave their opinion, I did break up it up in a bowl, added another good size cup of flour, egg, baking power, bit of milk and made the best cinnamon streusel muffins. My family loved them. This had too many good ingredients to throw out.
DB says
This was basically inedible. The Cinnamon mixture all sunk to the bottom and would not hardly come out of pan. It was swimming in butter and so sweet we had to throw it out.
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Al Dente Diva says
Wow!! I absolutely love all of the personalized adjustments you’ve made. I’m so so happy you liked it & thank you for taking the time to come back to comment!!
Jena says
Made this cake with King Arthur’s GF yellow cake mix. I used all vegetable oil for the butter/oil cake mix ingredients, and replaced regular milk with oat milk for DF. I used vegan butter and K.A. GF flour for the brown sugar mix to keep it all GF/DF. Amazing!! Everyone immediately asked me to make another one…even non gf/df peeps!
Anonymous says
Is this a good recipe for a bunt pan?
Al Dente Diva says
Standard box size
Anonymous says
What size cake mix?