Comments on: “Zombie Guts” Halloween Cinnamon Rolls (with Video)

By: Jennifer Tammy

Jennifer Tammy — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:40:33 +0000

In reply to Karen.

That’s a great idea! We’ve had this recipe on the site for almost a decade and only recently starting having comments that people have had issues, so I’m curious if the boxed mix has changed over time. We will be troubleshooting this recipe for next year, for sure!
— Jennifer

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 17:06:15 +0000

I haven’t seen any comments about buying already made dough like pillsbury. Might have missed it. Since many have issues with making the dough can it be bought?

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 03:39:41 +0000

Also ended up with sticky dough and added quite a bit of flour to manage it. Rolled it up and stretched and twisted then put in the pan. Also had to use a 9×13 pan to fit it all. Will be letting it sit in the fridge and baking in the morning so they are fresh for my work Halloween party. Also plan to add a little bit of red and blue to the icing to give it a dark red glaze! Overall really looking forward to the end result! Also would put time spent to like 3 or more hours as this too forever with letting the dough rise and what not.

By: bob

bob — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:19:41 +0000

cool recipe! glad i read the comments first because my dough also started out like cake batter (way too wet and sticky). i added more flour, 1/4 cup at a time, and probably ended up with 5 cups of flour total to the 1.5 cups of cake mix (basically, just plan on doubling the amount of flour that the recipe calls for). after each flour addition, i’d mix it with the dough hook to start, then scrape down the sides of the mixing bowl with a rubber spatula to get it all combined. eventually, it did turn into a nice ball of dough that i was able to work with. i also followed the one commenter’s suggestion to cut the dough into strips instead of rolling it up, and that worked really well because you don’t have to worry about neatly trimming the big rectangle; you can just use the messy edges as extra strips. be patient when you make this and don’t give up because it’s worth it!

By: Stacey Rodriguez

Stacey Rodriguez — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:59:10 +0000

In reply to Kristina. The directions are complete in the blog post itself, but somehow got cut off in the recipe card. Thank you for letting me know - I just fixed it!

By: Granny Janny

Granny Janny — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:19:41 +0000

I’ve made these without the cake mix and they turned out fabulous.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 04:24:36 +0000

In reply to Stacey Rodriguez. Where is thy rest of thy directions to this recipe? It stops at folding the 2 inch roll slices in half after slicing the roll into those slices.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:09:00 +0000

In reply to Jane. Mine also

By: Judy Kell

Judy Kell — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:12:05 +0000

These were a big hit. I made them this week for the first time so when I make them for the Halloween Party they are perfect. I agree, more cinnamon, also my dough wsa sticky. I thought maybe I didn’t kneed it enough? I like the ‘roll it out, cut in strips’ going to do that next time. Also, going to add a bit of red food coloring to the icing. I printed ou the recipe and it still doesn’t have the baking instructions on it. I winged it at 350 for 30 minutes and it was perfect. Thank you for this. It’s just lovely for the Halloween Party. 😀

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:18:27 +0000

In reply to Kit. It works great adding food coloring to the glaze but I prefer a cream cheese glaze.

By: Jennifer Tammy

Jennifer Tammy — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 04:16:01 +0000

In reply to Hollee. Thank you so much for the tips, we will look at revising so this recipe can be even better for next year. While I liked providing a cake mix hack, with cake mix companies changing their ratios, that has messed up our recipe so next year's version might need to be from-scratch to guarantee good results.

By: Jennifer Tammy

Jennifer Tammy — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 04:09:07 +0000

In reply to Phillip. Thank you, Phillip, I'm so glad you love this recipe and I've made a note to figure out what is going on with our recipe card. Thank you for letting us know about the issue!