What could be easier than this Chocolate Cinnabon Skillet Cake? Put it together in 15 minutes, bake for 20- 25 minutes frost and serve. It’s this easy, biscuits flattened, dipped in butter, then into the cocoa and cinnamon and rolled up to bake in a skillet. Spread the awesome cream cheese frosting and drizzled with chocolate sauce.
Easy Recipe for Chocolate Cinnabon Skillet Cake
I love Cinnamon rolls! Cinnamon buns for those who prefer. I love them! I do! It’s not a secret in my neighborhood. Especially ones made by Cinnabon ! My cinnamon rolls/buns are the most requested thing I make. Well… that and my Cheesecakes. I can never seem to make enough when I make Cinnamon buns or make them often enough.
The problem is, if you can call it a problem, is that they take a while to make. I know you can break up the amount of time to make them by letting them rise overnight in the fridge. But when I make the real cinnamon buns I don’t take short cuts. Delicious Cinnamon Buns
However, there are times when you crave those beautiful buns but don’t have a long time set aside to make them.
So what is a girl to do? What is the answer to a gotta have it now recipe. I found the answer at Chelsea’s Messy Apron Site.
When I saw this recipe at Chelsea’s Messy Apron I was hooked. She says she reinvented cinnamon rolls and I agree with her. She did it. Me? I just added to it and took them over the top with chocolate and cream. https://www.chelseasmessyapron.com/easy-30-minute-cinnamon-roll-skillet-cake/
I was going to follow the recipe but I love chocolate. I wanted to tweak the recipe and add a few things I do when I make them more like my cinnamon buns. So I added chocolate. And then I added cream. That’s not a bad thing right! Cream added right before baking makes the buns softer and gooier… is that a word ? Adding cream keeps them from drying out and the buns absorb it and make them rich and sooooo sooo good!
Ready to bake Buttermilk Biscuits with Chocolate and Cinnamon
Dip them in butter, drip, roll up. Easy as that!
Ingredients
For the skillet cake
2 cans of buttermilk biscuits – each biscuit rolled flat
2 sticks of butter melted
1 1/2 cups of granulated sugar
2 tablespoons of cocoa powder
2 teaspoons of cinnamon
3 tablespoons of heavy cream
For the frosting
4 oz cream cheese softened to room temperature
4 tablespoons butter softened to room temperature
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups of powdered sugar
1/4 cup chocolate melted for drizzle
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Prepare 9-10 inch cast iron skillet by spraying with cooking spray
Open packages of bisquits and roll each of them flat to about 4-5 inches – set aside
Mix sugar, cocoa, and cinnamon in a small bowl
Dip each rolled out biscuit in melted butter and allow the excess to run off
Next dip biscuits in cocoa cinnamon sugar mixture and roll up
Place roll ups starting at the outer edge of the pan making a circle ending in the middle
Pour heavy cream over cocoa cinnamon roll ups in-between rolls
Place in preheated oven and bake for 20- 25 minutes
While cake bakes add softened cream cheese and butter to medium bowl
Mix together until very smooth
Add vanilla and powdered sugar and mix again until well incorporated and very creamy
When cake is done remove from oven and set on a trivet or cooling rack-be careful pan is very HOT!!!
While cake is hot spread frosting so it melts into the cake
Drizzle with melted chocolate if desired
Serve warm or reheat if cooled before serving
Now isn’t that easy and delicious!
Chocolate Cinnabon Skillet Cake
Ingredients
- For the skillet cake
- 16 buttermilk biscuits 2 cans of 8 - each biscuit rolled flat
- 1 cup butter melted
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 3 tablespoons heavy cream
- For the frosting
- 4 oz cream cheese softened to room temperature
- 4 tablespoons butter softened to room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup chocolate melted for drizzle
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Prepare 9-10 inch cast iron skillet by spraying with cooking spray
- Open packages of bisquits and roll each of them flat to about 4-5 inches - set aside
- Mix sugar, cocoa, and cinnamon in a small bowl
- Dip each rolled out biscuit in melted butter and allow the excess to run off
- Next dip biscuits in cocoa cinnamon sugar mixture and roll up
- Place roll ups starting at the outer edge of the pan making a circle ending in the middle
- Pour heavy cream over cocoa cinnamon roll ups in-between rolls
- Place in preheated oven and bake for 20- 25 minutes
- While cake bakes add softened cream cheese and butter to medium bowl
- Mix together until very smooth
- Add vanilla and powdered sugar and mix again until well incorporated and very creamy
- When cake is done remove from oven and set on a trivet or cooling rack-be careful pan is very HOT!!!
- While cake is hot spread frosting so it melts into the cake
- Drizzle with melted chocolate if desired
- Serve warm or reheat if cooled before serving
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My name is Mary. Here at The Recipe Patch you will find a garden full of recipes to make life easy and delicious. I hope you find a new recipe to share with your friends and family. There is something for every occasion…. Let’s get to work… or play!
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okay so I was BLESSED enough to taste this when Mary made this for our office and from that moment on – my only wish in life was to eat this all day, everyday and not gain weight! IT. IS. AMAZING!! I tried it at home the next day. Mary makes her recipes SO easy to follow.. (I am not good at baking at all).. and my husband was so impressed! Definitely one of my all time faves.
Thank you Lola, You ARE becoming quite the cook and baker! Thanks for the kind words!
Oh my gosh, this looks amazing!! I can’t wait to try this recipe!