These easy Cinnamon Rolls are perfectly sweet and fluffly. They are a great treat for the holidays or the next time you need a special breakfast. Choose a delicious icing flavor to top the warm & gooey rolls. You only need a nice cup of coffee or a chai latte to imagine yourself in heaven.

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Easy homemade Cinnamon Rolls

Deliciously sweet and fluffy Cinnamon Rolls for a special breakfast or a treat during the holidays

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Prep Time 40 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 55 minutes mins

Course Breakfast

Cuisine American

Servings 8

Equipment

• 1 Stand mixer or hand mixer

Ingredients

  

Dough

• 75 gram unsalted butter
• 235 ml milk
• 11 gram instant yeast
• 615 gram all purpose flour
• 100 gram granulated sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 eggs

Filling

• 225 gram dark caster sugar
• 2 1/2 tbsp cinnamon
• 75 gram unsalted butter room temperature

Icing

• 85 gram cream cheese
• 60 gram unsalted butter room temperature
• 150 gram powdered sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla powder or extract
• 1 pinch of salt
• pink pitaya or blue spirulina if you like a beautiful color use a couple of tsps depending on the brightness of color that you like

Instructions

 

Dough

• Melt the butter. Heat up the milk until luke warm. Get the milk of the heat and dissolve the yeast in it.
• Place in the mixing bowl of a stand mixer with the dough hook attached, the flour, granulated sugar and salt. Mix shortly. Then add the melted butter and the milk/yeast mixture. Subsequently add the eggs. Turn on the stand mixer on low speed and mix for about 8 minutes until a smooth and elastic dough that easily releases from the bowl. You can also do this by hand, but it will take a bit longer.
• Put the dough in a clean bowl and cover it with plastic foil or a clean and damp kitchen towel. Let it rise in a warm environment for about an hour.

Filling

• Mix the dark caster sugar and cinnamon in a bowl.
• When the dough has doubled in size, put it on a surface that is lightly covered with flour. Don't use too little flour, because the dough will stick and you will not be able to make a beautiful cinnamon roll.
• Roll out the dough with a rolling pin to a rectangular piece of 40×50 centimeters.
• Brush the dough with the butter (that is on room temperature). Leave about 2 centimeters space on every side uncovered.
• Sprinkle the caster sugar/cinnamon mixture on top of the butter.
• Pick up the bottom of the dough on the long side and roll it up until you have a roll.
• Cut the roll with a sharp knife in 12 pieces. Each piece should be about 4 centimeters thick.
• Cover a baking pan with baking paper and put the cinnamon rolls. Don't put them tightly against each other, because they need room to rise.
• Cover the cinnamon rolls with plastic foil or a damp cloth and let it rise for another 30 minutes, until doubled in size.
• Heat the oven until 200 degrees celcius (390 F).
• Once the cinnamon rolls have doubled in size bake them in the oven for about 15 minutes or until they are golden brown.

Icing

• Beat the cream cheese, butter, icing sugar, vanilla and salt in the mixing bowl of a stand mixer (or use a hand mixer).
• Mix a couple of minutes and then add the pink pitay powder or blue spirulina powder into the mixture. Now keep on mixing it until you get a light and creamy mixture. If you don't like the color, simply ad a bit more powder and mix again.
• Immediately after you have taken the cinnamon rolls out of the oven, brush them with the icing, so that the icing can soak into the rolls.
• Enjoy your cinnamon rolls warm, when they are still gooey!

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