Flaky and buttery, these cruffins are a sweet breakfast treat filled with cinnamon sugar and baked until golden brown. Easy to make in 30 minutes with only 4 ingredients!
Want more sweet breakfast recipes? We also love these other easy pastries including brown sugar cinnamon pop tarts, croffles, crepes and apple fritters.
Why I Love These Cinnamon Sugar Cruffins
- Fun and fancy: This recipe for cruffins is essentially a croissant muffin! It has flaky layers cinnamon sugar rolled up into a spiral then baked in a muffin pan .
- Easy to make: While I love to make my overnight cinnamon rolls from scratch for special occasions, this cruffins recipe takes an effortless shortcut and uses puff pastry. My dessert cinnamon crescent rolls uses a similar hack!
Cruffin Recipe Ingredients
Substitutions and Variations
- Warm spices: Add 1/4 teaspoon of ginger, cardamom, star anise, cloves or coriander to the cinnamon-sugar mixture for fall!
- Chocolate chips: Before rolling up each strip of the cruffin dough add a few chocolate chips then proceed with rolling up. Kids love these!
- Sugar: Brown sugar can be substituted for white sugar. Cruffins will have a more caramel taste.
- Unsalted butter: Add a pinch of salt to your softened butter.
How to Make Cruffins
Unfold sheets of puff pastry. Use a rolling pin to roll each sheet to a 12×12 inch size. In a small bowl, whisk together the cinnamon and sugar mixture then remove 2 Tablespoons and set aside.
Use a butter knife to divide and spread 1/4 cup of softened butter onto the bottom of the puff pastry sheets. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar mixture in the bowl on top of the buttered pastry sheets.
Using a pastry wheel or pizza cutter, cut pastry sheet into 6 equal strips, about 2 inches in size. Roll slices up cinnamon roll style pinching the ends to ensure rolls stay closed while baking. Place each cruffin into prepared muffin tin and bake at 400°F for 15-18 minutes.
Remove from the pan and roll immediately in the remaining cinnamon-sugar mixture. Enjoy your homemade pastries and never worry about a trip to the bakery again!
Can I Make Cruffins with Crescent Roll Dough?
Yes, you will need two tubes of crescent roll sheets (8 oz. each) to make the cruffins and the method will slightly change. After spreading each croissant dough sheet with butter and cinnamon sugar, roll sheets of dough up log style. Cut the log in half, then cut each half again. Repeat with remaining dough. Bake at 350°F for 18-20 minutes. Note the temperature difference!
How Do I Make Mini Cruffins?
If you would like to make a mini cruffin recipe, just cut the dough into 1 inch pieces. The cinnamon sugar cruffins will still bake in a regular muffin tin but the baking time might decrease so keep on eye on them while they are in the oven!
Love sweet breakfast treats? Try croissant breakfast casserole, French bread French toast or orange sweet rolls, too!
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Cruffin Recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 puff pastry package , thawed but cold
- 6 Tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ cup salted butter , softened
- 1-2 Tablespoons butter , melted
Instructions
- Prep. Preheat oven to 400°F and brush 12 cup muffin pan with 1-2 Tablespoons melted butter and sprinkle with flour or line pan with muffin pan liners brushed with butter.
- Roll out puff pastry. Unfold the two puff pastry sheets from the package and lay them flat on the countertop. Use a rolling pin to roll out each one to a 12×12 inch size.
- Combine cinnamon and sugar. Whisk together 1 Tablespoon cinnamon and 6 Tablespoons sugar in a small bowl. Remove 2 Tablespoons of the cinnamon sugar mixture and set aside to sprinkle cruffins after baking.
- Spread butter. Use a butter knife to divide and spread the 1/4 cup of softened butter onto the bottom of the puff pastry sheets. Using the cinnamon sugar mixture in the bowl, sprinkle on top of each one of the buttered pastry sheets.
- Cut pastry into strips. Cut each individual pastry sheet into 6 equal strips, about 2 inches in size. I find it best to use a pizza cutter or pastry wheel when cutting. Do not layer pastry sheets on top of each other.
- Roll up cruffins. Similar to rolling cinnamon rolls, roll the slices up, pinching ends to ensure rolls stay closed while baking. Place each cruffin into a muffin cup.
- Bake. Bake 15-17 minutes. Pastry should be golden brown when done.
- Roll in cinnamon sugar. Remove from pan while still warm and roll each one into the remaining set aside cinnamon-sugar mixture. Serve immediately.
Notes
- Puff pastry: I used one box (17.3 oz) Pepperidge Farm frozen puff pastry sheets.
- Other spices: Try adding 1/4 teaspoon of ginger, cardamom, star anise or coriander to cinnamon-sugar mixture for a different variation.
- Chocolate chip: Before rolling up each strip add a few chocolate chips then roll up.
- Sugar: Brown sugar can be used. Your cruffins will be heavier with a caramel taste. As is with granulated sugar they taste like a cinnamon roll.
- Unsalted butter: Add a pinch of salt to your softened butter.
- Storage: These are best ate while warm and fresh but can be stored in an airtight container for 2-3 days at room temperature. Reheat lightly in the microwave.
- Freeze: You can also freeze these up to two months.
Nutrition
Nutrition provided is an estimate. It will vary based on specific ingredients used.
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Categorized as: 5 Ingredients Or Less, American, Breakfast, Christmas, Freezer-Friendly, Kid-Friendly, Reader Favorites, Sweet Breakfast
Jamielyn Nye is the founder and recipe creator at I Heart Naptime. She is the author of the I Heart Naptime Cookbook and shares easy family-friendly recipes and desserts for every occasion.
Oh my, I would need to only make these when our family is here right when I take them out of the oven!! Otherwise, my husband and I would eat them all at once :) Delicious and easy! Thanks for this recipe!
So glad you enjoyed them and agreed they are addicting!
This recipe for cruffins works! It was a huge success when I made this recipe. Thanks for sharing another winning recipe!
So glad your family enjoyed them!
These turned out amazing and were delicious for a breakfast treat.
Glad you enjoyed it!
this was everything that I wanted it to be and more! thank you so much for sharing this recipe!
Glad you enjoyed it!
The exterior is beautiful on these and tastes great. – Recipe tester
Agreed, a beautiful breakfast treat!
Yum! The whole family loved these, my daughter wanted hers with chocolate chips and they turned out great.
So happy to hear this, thanks for the review!