Cinnamon Rolls
These cinnamon rolls are pillowy swirls tucked with warm spices, served warm with dreamy cream cheese frosting. The dough produces a most soft roll that bakes up fat and fluffy.
Cinnamon Rolls
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Author: The Squishy Monster
Serves: 6
Ingredients
Roll
- 4 oz whole milk
- 2 tb + 2 ts unsalted butter
- 1¼ ts yeast
- 1 room temperature egg
- 2¼ c unbleached flour
- Pinch of fine salt
- ¼ c sugar
Filling
- Melted butter for brushing
- ½ c brown sugar
- 1.5 tb ground cinnamon
- ¼ ts ground cloves
Icing
- 4 oz soft cream cheese
- 2 oz soft unsalted butter
- Pinch of fine salt
- 2 ts pure vanilla extract
- ½ c {or more} sifted powdered sugar
Instructions
- Heat the milk and butter to 120 degrees and stir in the yeast. If the liquid is too hot, it will kill the yeast. Set aside for 2-3 minutes.
- Mix the egg, flour, salt, sugar, and yeast mixture. Using a dough hook attachment on a stand mixer is easiest but you can also do this by hand. Mix until the dough comes together nicely and looks smooth {4-7 minutes}
- Grease a bowl and the dough ball and set aside, covered for 60 minutes, undisturbed or until doubled in size.
- Meanwhile, make the filling by combing the brown sugar and spices.
- Roll out the dough on a nonstick surface {or use the smallest amount of flour possible to dust your work surface–too much will make a tough and dense dough}. Roll out to a ¼” thickness or so.
- Brush the surface with melted butter and sprinkle with the filling, leaving a bit of a border.
- Carefully roll {as demonstrated in the video} and cut into equal parts.
- Place cut rolls into a well greased pan and cover with plastic to rise one last time for 30 minutes.
- Bake at 400 for 12-15 minutes.
- For the icing, whip everything together and frost when the rolls are still slightly warm.
Love,
Your Squishy Monster ^.~
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Wow cinnabon has got NOTHING on you! Delicious
gorgeouuuuus, drool-worthy, cinnamon rolls!
Breakfast perfection! Your cinnamon rolls look so fluffy and wonderful!
I just want the whole pan!! Looks sooo good!!
Sooo sinful!
These look so incredible Angela! And did I mention that I’m going to make your gummy recipe too? You make it look so simple and good!
You make this look so easy to make and of course delicious as well.
Yummy. I can almost smell the delicious goodness.
A clear winner in my opinion
Cinnamon rolls are my favourite! Cannot wait to try the recipe out!
i love cinnamon rolls like that~ basic..because for a second i thought u were going to add pumpkin spice to it! hahahaha…everything gone pumpkin crazy lately at stores~ oreos, cakes, pies, frostings, puddings..all pumpkin. i think it is a conspiracy for us to eat more squash. hehe
In response to your first question – there is nothing like cinnamon rolls! These look divine! I am craving all things cinnamon, gotta love fall
I haven’t had lunch yet and I truly enjoyed your video… yes I want to sink my teeth into those yummy cinnamon rolls! Hungry…I can skip lunch and go straight to these! Looks delicious!
Oh my gosh!! These look sooooo good! I love when cinnamon buns have a thick layer of creamy white frosting! …way better than just a drizzle!
fabulous! how do you get your food to look so good?
I go through phases with cinnamon rolls but right now I definitely want one of these!
I am a sucker for cinnamon rolls and these are totally calling my name! They look gorgeous girl – I’ll take the whole pan please
These cinnamon rolls are beauties!
These cinnamon rolls look too good for me to try preparing… I would probably finish the whole lot on my own. Fantastic!
I just love cinnamon rolls. The aroma…the flavour…the taste! Yum!
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So tempting and luscious. I am beyond due to make some it has been forever. Bookmarked.
cinnamon roll?! Yes please. Reading this has certainly made my day. You always seem to know how to change my mood every time I visit
Just for you guys!!
lol, I try my best to curtail my pumpkin spice addiction. I hope you have a happy weekend, Brain!
Holy YUM! Yesssss please. I’m on my way over. LOL!
Cinnamon rolls are just the best! Yours look so wonderfully fluffy!
Oh yes, these look awesome! Im going to make some for our next weekend visitors
Hello! I wanna try this recipe because it looks wonderful, but I have some doubts, how much of yeast? 1 teaspoon with a quarter of teaspoon? And, the butter of the dough is melted? Or just normal temperature? Hope you can response to me the fastest possible
Hi, Betsy! To make 1 1/4 teaspoons of yeast, you fill a teaspoon and then another 1/4 ts. There is no actual butter that goes into the dough, rather it’s brushed on. My video will give you a visual aid to reinforce the written recipe, if that helps =)
Sounds delicious
Thanks, Jeri! I hope you not only have a sweet morning with these but have a wonderful day too!
I just made this recipe! They taste amaaazzzinnggg! I took them out at 12 minutes and they looked done so I frosted them, but they were still raw inside, so I covered them with foil and put them back in, and they aren’t seeming to cook fully. Must’ve been a flaw in my making. They look completely fine like yours, just with raw insides. I’ll try again next time!
Thanks for sharing, Catherine!
Just lovely! Did you use regular or rapid rise yeast. Thanks for your response
Hi, Ginny! I used instant yeast here but I’ve made this with regular as well =)