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No-Mixer Cinnamon Rolls

No stand mixer required — shortcut doughs and hand-mixed recipes anyone can pull off on the counter.

no yeast

No-Yeast Cinnamon Rolls

Fast cinnamon rolls with a tender biscuit-style dough leavened by baking powder — no rising, no proofing, warm in under an hour.

45 min easy
quick

One-Hour Cinnamon Rolls

Warm, frosted cinnamon rolls from scratch in about an hour using extra yeast and a single warm rise — no overnight wait.

70 min easy
quick

Crescent Roll Cinnamon Rolls

A 20-minute shortcut using refrigerated crescent dough — flaky, buttery cinnamon rolls with a quick glaze and no yeast or rising.

25 min beginner
no yeast

Three-Ingredient Cinnamon Rolls

A no-yeast cinnamon roll dough from just self-rising flour and yogurt, filled with cinnamon sugar — fast, easy, and honestly rustic.

35 min easy
quick

How to Upgrade Canned Cinnamon Rolls

Turn a tube of store-bought cinnamon rolls into something bakery-worthy with the heavy cream trick, extra filling, and real cream cheese frosting.

38 min beginner
quick

Cinnamon Roll Pancakes

Fluffy buttermilk pancakes with a swirl of cinnamon-sugar piped right into the batter and a cream cheese glaze on top — all the flavor of a cinnamon roll in 20 minutes.

35 min easy
quick

Cinnamon Roll Cake

A soft buttermilk sheet cake with ribbons of cinnamon-sugar swirled through the batter and a vanilla glaze poured over the top — all the flavor of cinnamon rolls, none of the rolling.

67 min easy
no yeast

Bisquick Cinnamon Rolls

Fast, no-yeast cinnamon rolls made with Bisquick baking mix — a soft biscuit-style dough you can roll, fill, and bake in about 30 minutes, no rising required.

42 min beginner
quick

Pizza Dough Cinnamon Rolls

A clever shortcut: turn a ball of store-bought pizza dough into warm cinnamon rolls in about 40 minutes, no mixing or long proof required.

64 min beginner
quick

Puff Pastry Cinnamon Rolls

Flaky, shatteringly crisp cinnamon rolls made from store-bought puff pastry in about 30 minutes — no yeast, no proofing, all buttery layers.

40 min beginner
quick

Cinnamon Roll Monkey Bread

Cinnamon rolls cut into pieces, tossed in cinnamon sugar, and baked in a bundt pan into sticky, pull-apart monkey bread with a caramel glaze.

62 min beginner
quick

Cinnamon Roll Waffles

Press cinnamon rolls in a waffle iron for crisp-edged, caramelized cinnamon roll waffles in about 4 minutes — the fastest cinnamon roll trick there is.

11 min beginner