Inspiration: Thanks to my elementary school’s lunch lady, who loved adding way too many raisins for my liking and a brief stint in a supermarket bakery where I scooped the icing out of a five-gallon bucket with a gloved hand….My enjoyment of cinnamon rolls, in any iteration, declined significantly.

However, as more years than I care to count have passed since either instance was relevant in my life, I found myself intrigued by a bake on the very last page of the September/October Bake From Scratch magazine. So, feeling a bit adventurous, I decided to tackle their recipe for Quick Apple Cinnamon Buns.

Whereupon I discovered myself trying a new kind of bake! Or at least I can’t recall tackling this style of rolled, layered, cut, and baked sweet roll before….and after getting over my initial trepidation, I screwed up my courage and gave it a go!

And it turned out pretty well! (My second batch, not pictured here, turned out even better.) Apparently, all I needed to do was sub apples for the dreaded raisins to learn to love these buns again!

Helpful Hint From Me To You: For the glaze, don’t switch out the apple juice or cider in the icing! It really does affect the taste of the bake and adds another apple note to the end result. (Ask me how I know.)

Christie: I believe Ariadne Oliver would love this bake, as it would give her an alternate way to consume apples! Plus, I think Inspector Japp would love partaking of them with his morning cup of tea, before settling into his day.