5 Ingredient Puff Pastry Pineapple Upside Down Cinnamon Rolls are full of ooey gooey, buttery caramel sauce, cinnamon, and that familiar pineapple upside down flavor.

Rich, buttery caramel and juicy pineapple top these 5 Ingredient Puff Pastry Pineapple Upside Down Cinnamon Rolls. Easy and delish, this may just be your new favorite treat!

If a cinnamon roll and a pineapple upside-down cake had babies, this would be it. This sweet pastry roll is rich and decadent.

Is it breakfast? Is it dessert? I’m not sure, but it’s good and I’m pretty sure you’re going to be wanting to eat it all the time!

Anytime you mix brown sugar and butter and cook it, you’ll get a caramel sauce. The good thing about this one is you don’t have to stand over the stove stirring. This is a self-made sauce that bakes as the pastry bakes. When you flip over the cinnamon rolls onto a serving dish, the caramel sauce sinks down into each hole and hollow filling it with caramel goodness.

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5 Ingredient Puff Pastry Pineapple Upside Down Cinnamon Rolls

By using puff pastry, I cut the prep time down to minutes. Puff pastry is so good in many desserts. I, personally, don’t want to spend hours and hours making a puff pastry when the store-bought ones are so perfect.

These rolls hav all the wonderful flavors of the traditional Pineapple Upside Down Cake but with the added flavor of cinnamon rolls. These rolls have a caramelized top layer, thanks to the butter and brown sugar. The cinnamon roll portion of this dessert is super moist, buttery, flaky and practically melts in your mouth!

Sweet pineapple and that cherry give almost a tropical flare. I’m totally hooked on this flavor combination.

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5 Ingredient Puff Pastry Pineapple Upside Down Cinnamon Rolls

5 Ingredient Puff Pastry Pineapple Upside Down Cinnamon Rolls are buttery, flaky and practically melt in your mouth. With just 5 ingredients and less than 30 minutes from start to finish, this will become your new favorite treat!

Author: Paula

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Prep Time: 10

Cook Time: 18

Total Time: 28

Servings: 16 servings

Ingredients

For the rolls

2 puff pastry thawed
flour or dusting about 1/4 cup
1 cup brown sugar divided
2 tablespoon ground cinnamon

For the topping

1/2 cup melted butter
1 cup brown sugar 16 tablespoons
16 maraschino cherries drained
1 cup crushed pineapple drained (16 tablespoons)

Instructions

Spray muffin tins with non-stick baking spray.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Spoon 1 teaspoon butter in the bottom of 16 muffin cups.
Spoon 1 tablespoon brown sugar on top of the butter.
Press 1 cherry in the center of the brown sugar in each cup.
Top with 1 tablespoon pineapple and compact slightly with the back of a spoon.
Unfold one puff pastry sheet on a work surface that's been dusted with flour.
Roll out slightly to smooth the folds.
Mix 1 cup brown sugar and 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon together.
Spread 1/2 of the brown sugar mixture evenly over the puff pastry.
Press down slightly.
Roll pastry from the long side.
Cut into 8 even rolls.
Place one roll on top of the mixture in the muffin cup.
Repeat process with the second sheet of puff pastry.
Bake at 400 degrees for 18 to 20 minutes or until golden brown.
Remove from the oven and allow to sit for 5 minutes.
Invert rolls onto a serving dish after five minutes.
Serve hot.

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10 Comments

great recipe! what we did was roll each of the 8 rolls into discs, then use them to top the pineapple. we also added 1/4 c melted butter, 1/2 tsp orange blossom water, and 1/2 tsp of salt to the filling of the discs before spreading it, and chilled them as the oven came to temp. 🙂 thank you!

Why do you use crushed pineapple instead of pineapple rings?

Paula says:

02.23.21 at 9:28 am

You can use rings. But, my muffin pan wasn’t large enough for a ring without cutting it. It was just easier to spoon the crushed pineapple in.

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Just made these this moring–super easy and super delicious! May have to make another batch as I have already gobbled down 2 of them!

“Spread 1/2 of the brown sugar mixture evenly over the puff pastry.“ What do you do with the other half?

Paula says:

12.12.19 at 7:00 am

The other half goes on the second sheet of puff pastry.

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I just love pineapple upside down cake, so I was so excited to see your recipe and know that I can now have it for breakfast! Thanks for sharing.

OH WOW! Those look amazing!
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They look very nice. I like that they can be made with puff pastry!

You are brilliant! These rolls look fabulous. Thanks so much for your faithfulness to share with us at Weekend Potluck. Hope you enjoy a great weekend.