Cinnamon Roll Cake

My church is doing a weekly bible study for mom's called Abide. It is an awesome study so far and I encourage all the moms out there to either read this study or get plugged into one at your local church. Any ways... we are meeting every Monday morning until the end of April. I think there are about 70 ladies that are attending. Since we meet at 9:30 AM we are hungry! Each small group of about 8 or so women are responsible for bringing breakfast twice over the 4 month study. Our group did breakfast this morning. I was going to be super lazy about it and signed up for canned cinnamon rolls and blueberry muffins. I then decided that I should try to be a little bit more stay-at-home-mom-ISH and make at least one of them from scratch. If you noticed, I just made homemade cinnamon rolls last week. They took a lot of time and were really big so I decided that not go that route. Luckily, I came across a Cinnamon Roll Cake recipe via Pinterest a few weeks ago. It makes a 9x13 cake that I could cut into smaller pieces to feed the masses :) I was a little worried about bringing something I had never made or tried before, but it ended up tasting great so I figured I should share the recipe. The recipe is adapted from here. If you noticed I did change the amount of butter used, I just felt that the original recipe called for way too much.

Cinnamon Roll Cake

Ingredients:

• Cake Mix
• 3 cups flour
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 cup sugar
• 4 tsp. baking powder
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• 6 tbsp. melted butter
• Cinnamon Mix
• 3/4 cup softened butter
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 tbsp. flour
• 1 tbsp. cinnamon
• Glaze
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 5 tbsp. milk
• 1 tsp. vanilla

Instructions

1. Mix flour, salt, sugar, baking powder, milk, eggs and vanilla together to make your cake mix. 
2. Then stir in the melted butter and pour the  batter into a greased 9x13 cake pan.
3. Mix softened butter, brown sugar, flour and cinnamon together to created your cinnamon mix. 
4. Lump the cinnamon mix onto the cake batter. 
5. Take a knife and zigzag through the batter to incorporate the cinnamon mix.
6. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.
7. Top with the glaze while the cake is still warm.
8. Enjoy with a glass of milk! :)