Cinnabon Cinnapopper Pie

Pet peeeeeeve time.

You know when you go to concerts or attractions or events and there’s always that person filming every little detail?  Except they’re filming it with the microscopic, low-grade camera on their phone AND the place is extremely loud and dark?  Yeah — Filmers of Dark and Loud Events, please stop.  I beg of you.

Because it isn’t really the fact that you’re completely useless standing in the way while you attempt to film everything happening on your miniature screen.  Aaand it isn’t really the fact that I personally think you should be enjoying the actual event rather than filming it.  It’s actually because inevitably, you or someone like you will come into contact with me at a later date and insist I watch said video.  And I can think of a handful of other things I’d rather be doing (toilet paper shopping, getting a papercut, paying a toll tax) than watching your grainy, low-res video of some indistinguishable concert.

You went to go see Britney Spears?  Well congratulations, but you managed to take a probably pretty good concert and turn it into a 6 minute video of a tiny pixelated being making incoherent animal noises with a bunch of scratchy screaming in the background.  Gee, if I knew I could experience the entire concert from your crappy camera phone, why spend the money on actual tickets?!  I may as well stand awkwardly over your phone watching the vague sounds of instruments and the incomprehensible shapes of the band wiggle around as your phone struggled to capture anything meaningful of the event itself.

So I apologize if I’m being curt, but really — I don’t want to see your grainy videos of the luau you saw on Waikiki or the terrible footage of Coachella.  I have papercuts to get and toilet paper shopping to tend to.

Something I also must tend to?  Eating as much cinnamon rolls as possible.  Because #Yolo.  Actually, because have you eaten a cinnamon roll?  They’re amazing, and stopping at one is nearly impossible.  Especially if they’re the gooey, chewy goodness of Cinnabon Cinnamon Rolls!  You know you can’t resist the sweet aroma of cinnamon and cream cheese icing when you walk past their store in the mall… even if they know you on a first-name basis… and even if you take all your first dates there… whatever.  They’re simply irresistible!

So when I found these Cinnabon Cinnapoppers at the store, I knew I had to make something intoxicatingly delicious with them.  And what better way to create something scrumptious than to bake all those gooey, chewy cinnamon rolls into one fantastic, outrageous pie?  NO BETTER WAY, THAT’S WHAT.

Do yourself a service and a service to humanity and make this pie.  Just please, don’t film yourself making it at midnight on a Thursday.  No one cares about the process, they just want the pieeeeeeeeee!

I really couldn’t get enough of this extremely addictive cinnamon roll pie!  It tastes identical to a giant cinnamon roll — thanks to all those little Cinnapoppers baked inside — but the overall flavor and texture of the pie reminds me of that highly coveted, hard-to-replicate ooey gooey center of the cinnamon roll.  The part that’s slightly underdone, saturated with butter and sugar and that’s often saved as the best for last?  Every slice of this pie tastes exactly like that crown jewel — the sweet aroma of vanilla swirled with the warmth and spice of the cinnamon, the crunch of the golden crust with the chewy, flaky layers of the dough.  You will not be able to resist this pie’s siren song, so don’t even try 🙂

Have a fantastical day!!

xo, Hayley