Vanilla Bun Pull Apart Cake
I’m all about taking shortcuts when you have no time and when no else can tell. I once tried passing off Costco red velvet cake as my own. Didn’t have much luck :-). Anyway, my sister Chaviva and family visited from New Jersey this past weekend and I was under a lot of pressure to impress. Self imposed pressure of course. The downside about bragging about your cooking is that when guests show up you have a reputation to live up to. I’ve been wanting to make this Vanilla Bun Pull Apart Cake for a while but knew that I’d probably devour it all myself. It was a good call because this came out way more amazing than I’d imagined. I’m glad there were other people were share this with. I used store bought dinner roll dough but I had to sort of mush them together so that I could roll it out in one piece. I then mixed melted butter with some sugar and vanilla bean paste and spread it over the dough, rolled it, sliced it and put it in a pan. The left over filling was poured over the vanilla buns. The result is a buttery roll that tastes like it is bathed in caramel. Does it get better than this??
The short list of ingredients
Combine melted butter, sugar and vanilla bean paste
Roll out the dough
Spread the filling over the rolled out dough
Add the slices to the pan
Leave some room in between the pieces because the dough will grow
Pour the remainder of the filling over the dough
Let it rise in the pan. The butter will harden but will melt again in the oven
- 1½ lbs store bought dough
- 1¼ sticks of butter
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 tbsp vanilla bean paste
- Thaw dough according to instructions on package
- Melt butter in the microwave
- Add sugar and vanilla bean paste and mix well
- Roll out dough and spread filling over it.
- Roll up dough as you would a jelly roll
- Cut into thin slices and add to 9 inch round cake pan. Leave space in between pieces because it will rise
- Pour leftover filling over dough and let rise until doubled
- Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes at 350
- Let cool for 10 minutes and invert pan
That looks so easy and actually fun to make all those individual rolls! Yum!
I am not going to make this because I will eat it all up. Looks amazing! I can’t believe it’s that easy.
I wonder what other kinds of refrigerator dough would work? Pepperidge farm sheets? Then you wouldnt have to “mush them together”
Pepperidge Farm sheets are flakey dough. This requires bread dough. I used what I had at home but there are plenty of brands that make bigger pieces
Lisa – see if your supermarket carries a brand like Rodes.
Yum finally something unhealthy!!!! :)maybe it’s vegan!!
Hi Tova!! Its drenched in butter! Should satisfy your unhealthy cravings 🙂
This looks so good, you should make it for us! 🙂
This looks so good, you should make it for us! 😉
Leah – for some reason your comment went into my spam.. I have to definitely make it again..
I can attest – it exceeded expectations! Amazing! We packed the tiny bit left over for our road trip along the pacific coast highway up to San francisco!