I’ve had a tough time forgetting about those Cinnamon Roll Pancakes that I posted a few weeks ago. So much so that I started wondering what else I could do to replicate the Cinnamon Roll. “Why not waffles, too?” I thought. I experimented… but it was a flop. I tried to create them just as I did with the pancakes- pouring in batter first and then swirling the cinnamon-sugar filling inside. The waffle iron didn’t like that very much. It turned out to be a big mess, and then it turned out to be a big, burned mess. I cleaned it all up and then decided to go a different route.

I went with a buttermilk waffle… plain, with no cinnamon filling added.  So boring and blah- but not for long.

I drizzled the cinnamon-sugar filling on top.

I figured… why not? Did it really matter if the filling was inside the waffle or outside the waffle? Nope.

My ideal cinnamon roll always has cream cheese icing, so a cream cheese icing drizzle was in order too.

Lots of cream cheese icing, please. No syrup on these waffles, no sirree!

I could hardly wait to take a bite… to see if this whole Cinnamon Roll Waffle thing worked out.

That’s about all I could eat. Not because it wasn’t good. It was good. REALLY good. All the flavors of a cinnamon roll drizzled onto a stack of waffles. Perfect. So I tasted, then passed it along to the rest of my family, then planned my daily trip to the gym. It’s quite a decadent breakfast/brunch treat, but nothing worse than a cinnamon roll, really. And those are perfectly okay to have once in a while, right?  

Here are a few more cinnamon roll themed recipes you might like to try:

Cinnamon Roll Pancakes  Old Fashioned Cinnamon Rolls Cinnamon Bun Cookies  Pumpkin Cinnamon Roll Pancakes Triple Cinnamon Scones  Cinnamon Roll Muffins with Cream Cheese Frosting Grandma Billie’s Cinnamon Rolls