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!

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Chocolate Cinnabon Skillet Cake

Chcocolate Cinnabon Skillet cake has delicious layers of buttery cinnamon and chocolate rolled together and baked in a skillet and glazed with a cream cheese frosting

Prep Time15 mins

Cook Time24 mins

Total Time39 mins

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: 16

Calories: 407kcal

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

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 407kcal | Carbohydrates: 49g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 23g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Cholesterol: 50mg | Sodium: 406mg | Potassium: 91mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 36g | Vitamin A: 579IU | Calcium: 30mg | Iron: 1mg

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