Just finished making these, and they turned out PERFECT! The only changes I made were adding less butter (watching my diet) I used about 1 stick of butter total. When rolling them up, instead of putting the butter on the dough first; I mixed the butter, brown sugar and cinnamon together and spread it on the dough. This worked out WONDERFUL. I ended up almost tripling the icing on accident (I didn't realize the recipe calls for 3 oz of cream cheese and accidentally used the whole 8 oz!) but it ended up being the perfect amount, we like to have tons of extra icing :) My dad says they are better than cinnabon. I will definitely be making these again!

Reviewed On: Jul. 22, 2009

I used a devil's food cake mix for the cupcakes, and replaced the oil with applesauce. I used my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe, only I left out the eggs, personally I think it tasted just as good as when I've eaten dough with the eggs, but better because it is more solid like store bought rather than more sticky like homemade. They turned out great. I did have to cook them for about 19 minutes for the cupcakes to cook all the way through, after freezing the cookie dough for about 4 hours they turned out perfect and the cookie dough didn't cook at all. I've had cupcakes like these from a bakery and I had no they were this easy to make!

Reviewed On: Jul. 12, 2009

I used 2% milk instead of evaporated milk, I'm assuming that's why I had to put A LOT more powdered sugar in order for the frosting to be thick enough to pipe onto cupcakes. It did turn out well, I thought it tasted just like a homemade version of store bought frosting. I'm only giving 4 stars because I thought it was good for how easy it was, but not amazing.

Reviewed On: Jul. 12, 2009