Hocus Pocus Buns Recipe aka Resurrection Rolls

When I saw that hocus pocus buns were trending on Pinterest, I had to check them out. I originally thought about the Halloween classic movie, but I was totally off base.

Crescent roll dough, cinnamon and sugar, butter, and a marshmallow? That’s it? Sign me up!

When I say that this recipe was so easy to make and tastes incredibly delicious, that’s an understatement.

Hocus pocus buns actually go by a bunch of different names:

Resurrection rolls, empty tomb rolls, disappearing marshmallow rolls, empty coffin rolls, abracadabra rolls, you get the gist.

I suppose it all depends on what time of year you’re making these and who your audience is 🙂

For now, we’re going to make these for a delicious Halloween dessert!

Hocus Pocus Buns Recipe

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 tube of crescent roll dough (mine was butter flavored)
• 1/4 cup melted butter (I prefer to use salted)
• Cinnamon & sugar mixture: 1/4 cup white sugar, 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 8 regular size marshmallows

Step 1: Dip your marshmallow

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Unwrap your crescent roll dough and place one triangle on a plate.

Dip a marshmallow in melted butter and then roll it in the cinnamon and sugar mixture.

Step 2: Wrap the marshmallow in the crescent roll dough

Wrap the crescent roll dough around the marshmallow and pinch so that it is completely covered and sealed.

I thought I had done a great job at this, but a few rolls ended up with a teeny tiny bit of marshmallow that seeped out during baking. So make sure you pinch better than you think you need to.

Step 3: Dip the wrapped dough balls

Dip each wrapped marshmallow roll in melted butter and then roll in the cinnamon and sugar mixture.

Step 4: Bake the rolls

Spray 8 wells in a muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray and place one cinnamon and sugar dipped dough ball in each well.

Bake at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes or until the outside is turning golden brown.

This is why they call them hocus pocus rolls, because the marshmallow completely bakes into the roll and disappears!

Talk about cinnamon and sugar gooey goodness, these turned out incredibly DELICIOUS. And they were so easy to make.

Not only can you claim these to be a Halloween dessert, I can definitely see us making them a new Easter dessert tradition as well!