These quick and easy cinnamon roll knock-offs may not look pretty... but most of my experiments with packaged dough and cinnamon don't.  However, the looks are hiding a good tasting breakfast treat.  Just pay attention to the recommended changes.

The usual starting point... some packaged "dough".  This time I went back to some pie crust and rolled out to a roughly rectangular shape.

You'd be best served by taking your time and getting it more rectangular than this... or just sacrificing some dough and trimming to shape. 

Soften up some butter.

Spread it around the dough.

Get your cinnamon and brown sugar mix ready (1 cup brown sugar to 1 tbs cinnamon).

Evenly spread it across the dough, leaving one edge free for sealing up later. 

Key point... use less than what I did.  Eventually I'll apply this lesson.  But 'till then, at least you'll know better.

Start rolling it up along one edge.

Continue rolling it along trying to keep everything tight.

There, almost done.

Use the uncovered edge to form a good seal.  Don't worry about egg wash and stuff, a finger dipped in some water and ran across the edge will work just as well.

Slice it up about 1 inch pieces.

You'll see alot of places talk about using string to make clean cuts.  I'm using a serrated bagel knife and it works quite well.

Place on a pan.  Here, I've used some of the extra butter on the pan.  Guess I knew what was coming up.

Bake according to the directions on the dough.

If you are like me, you'll then need to pry them off the pan due to the excess cin/sugar mix just flowing out the bottom.  But now you know better.

Now for the recommended changes to get these to work better...

1.  Try to get your dough spread out in a more rectangular shape.  The end pieces always end up kinda screwed up for me... but I'm not patient enough to fix it.

2.  Use less cinnamon / sugar mixture.  It's becoming obvious to me that I'm putting way to much in there and the result is the stuff melts out the bottom and burns to a crisp.  This is definately a time to be thrifty and reserve the desire to load it up.

So, don't be afraid to experiment... and if you do, let us know how it turns out.