Best Cinnamon Rolls Recipe | Video

Best cinnamon rolls recipe. Made with pantry staples and layered with sweet and luxurious brown sugar-cinnamon spread, these fancy treats make for a classic breakfast or dessert guaranteed to satisfy your sweet cravings. The signature luscious cream cheese frosting make these pillowy soft rolls even more heavenly.

The ultra heavenly combination of cinnamon and baked goods is insanely delicious. Moreover, the entire house fills with the beautiful aroma of cinnamon giving away warm and cozy vibes. Isn’t it such a delicious way to enjoy a gorgeous weekend brunch with your loved ones?

And to create the perfect treat loaded with the warmth of this decadent spice, you will need the best cinnamon rolls recipe. It’s moist, gooey, luscious, and bursting with the amazing flavor of cinnamon sugar. If you think making the perfect rolls is challenging, let me tell you, it’s totally doable. All you need is the right recipe.

Best Cinnamon Rolls Recipe

The recipe consists of three different parts – making the dough, combining the sugar cinnamon mixture and cream cheese frosting. Again, this yeasted dough requires proofing twice (2-3 hours in total) to attain the best results.

First, the dough. The first and foremost step is obviously proofing the yeast before adding the other ingredients of the dough. All you need to do is combine together active dry yeast, lukewarm milk and a little sugar in a bowl. Set this aside until it starts to foam.

To prepare the dough for this best cinnamon rolls recipe, we’ll be using the electric stand mixer with the dough hook attachment. Even though this makes the process easier, you can always knead with your hands. However, it may require longer kneading time.

To the bowl of the mixer, add all the dry ingredients including flour, sugar and salt. Use a wooden spoon to give this a quick stir. To this, add all the wet ingredients – egg, vanilla extract and butter. And finally, the bubbly yeast mixture.

Place this on the stand mixer and knead for about 5 minutes. Cover and place this dough in a warm spot to rise. This will take about 1-2 hours. Punch down the dough (this is very important) and transfer onto a floured surface. Roll out. This should be about 1/2 cm thick.

Next, filling. A simple sweet combination of butter, brown sugar and ground cinnamon. Use dark brown sugar if you can. Just a quick mix and you can spread this on the rolled out dough.

Now, roll the dough with the filling inside and cut into thick circles. Transfer this to the baking pan and let it rise for another 1 hour. And again, we’ll also try the viral TikTok hack in this recipe. Drizzle a little heavy or thickened cream on the rolls just before baking. Bake this for about 25 minutes.

Final step, the cream cheese frosting. It’s super simple to make. Just combine together cream cheese, sugar, butter and vanilla extract. The frosting needs to be soft and fluffy.

More Cinnamon Flavored Recipes:

• Cinnamon Palmier Cookies 

Yield: 9 rolls

Best Cinnamon Rolls Recipe | Video

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A fancy treat layered with the gorgeous flavors of cinnamon. Perfect for special brunch or dessert!

Prep Time 25 minutes

Cook Time 25 minutes

Total Time 50 minutes

Ingredients

Dough:

• 2 teaspoons instant dry yeast
• 3/4 cup lukewarm milk
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 3 cups bread flour
• 1/4 cup granulated (caster) sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 egg, at room temperature
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 40 g melted and cooled unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup heavy (thickened) cream

Filling:

• 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
• 60 g unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon

Cream cheese frosting:

• 100 g cream cheese, at room temperature
• 1/2 cup icing (powdered) sugar
• 3 tablespoons softened unsalted butter
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Place yeast, milk and sugar in a small bowl. Stir to combine. Set aside for about 10-15 minutes or until foamy and bubbly.
2. Meanwhile, place flour, 1/4 cup sugar and salt in the mixing bowl of the stand mixer. Using a wooden spoon, stir to combine.
3. Add egg, vanilla extract, butter and yeast mixture.
4. With the dough hook attachment on an electric stand mixer, knead for 5 minutes (or knead by hand for 15 minutes).
5. Transfer the dough to an oiled bowl and place in a warm spot to rise, for about 1-2 hours or until double in size. (You can also let the dough rise in the refrigerator overnight, for about 8 hours).
6. Dust the work surface and rolling pin lightly with flour. Punch down and turn the dough onto the work surface.
7. Roll the dough out into a rectangle with 1/2 cm thickness.
8. Spread with the sugar-cinnamon mixture.
9. Starting from the long edge, roll the dough into a tight spiral. Pinch the spiral closed.
10. Using a serrated knife or dental floss (for the perfect cut), cut into 9 equal sized rolls.
11. Transfer into a 9x13 inch baking dish. Cover with plastic wrap.
12. Place in a warm spot and let them rise for 45 minutes to 1 hour or until double in size and the rolls are touching each other.
13. Preheat oven to 180 C / 350 F. Bake for 25 minutes or until the rolls are golden on top and puffy.
14. To make the frosting, use an electric mixer to beat cream cheese, sugar, butter, and vanilla extract.
15. Frost the cinnamon rolls generously with the frosting. Serve warm.

Notes

• Make sure milk is lukewarm to activate yeast
• Use bread flour for the best cinnamon rolls
• I tried the viral TikTok hack of adding heavy cream on cinnamon rolls and it certainly make the rolls moist and delicious
• More flavor ideas: biscoff spread, caramelized nuts topping, berries, maple syrup, apple pie filling etc.
• Unfrosted baked rolls can be frozen.

Nutrition Information

Yield

9

Serving Size

1
Amount Per Serving Calories 385Total Fat 18gSaturated Fat 11gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 6gCholesterol 68mgSodium 294mgCarbohydrates 47gFiber 2gSugar 12gProtein 8g

The nutritional data is for information purposes only

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