Get Ready to Fall in Love with These Effortless Pumpkin Spice Cinnamon Rolls!

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These quick and easy pumpkin spice cinnamon rolls have become a specialty dish of my 9 year old niece, Elle. She takes great care in making them and loves cutting them apart with dental floss!

With just a few simple ingredients and a few minutes time you can have these special little treats. They start with canned crescent rolls, canned pumpkin, and some other ingredients you likely already have in your pantry!

The flavor is decidedly different and perfect for this season.

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To make pumpkin spice cinnamon rolls you’ll need:

• 1 tube crescent roll dough 8 crescent size
• 1 tablespoon room temp butter
• 2-4 tablespoons canned pumpkin not pie filling
• 1/2 cup brown sugar light or dark
• 2.5 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice

for icing

• Either a can of store bought frosting vanilla or cream cheese
• or 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
• 1 tablespoon softened butter
• 1 tablespoon milk
• and a little vanilla

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Now this only takes a little bit of pumpkin so what we do is put the rest in a container in the fridge or freezer so we can make these again or use it for other recipes.

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1. Roll out dough and press the seams together a bit.

2. Stir together pumpkin and softened butter. Spread this over the dough.

3. Stir together brown sugar and pumpkin pie spice and sprinkle over dough.

4. Roll that up and squeeze it together with your hands a little bit to form a nice log. Use dental floss to cut into 8 pieces.

Tips for Making Cinnamon Rolls look purty!

Use *unflavored* dental floss to avoid smushing the rolls or tearing them. Wrap it around and then pull together to cut perfect little circles like in the image above. This also keeps them from being oddly shaped because if you press them with a knife they would be more like ovals.

Having said this, feel free to just use a knife if you want. Respect to the rebels out there.

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5. Place them in a greased, 9 inch pie plate. It is tempting to put them all together in the pan but make sure you spread them out a bit because they will spread as they bake up.

6. Bake this at 375 for about fifteen minutes, or until they are lightly golden on top.

Try not to over bake but if you do rest easy knowing you can cover that up with extra icing! I wish all mistakes in life could be managed that way.

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ooooh look at those Cinnamon Rolls!!!

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7. Mix up your glaze OR take a can of store bought frosting (I like vanilla or cream cheese), heat it in the microwave for about 30 seconds (after you remove the foil lid of course), and drizzle it over your cinnamon rolls.

You know you better eat you some of this quick!