Learn how to make soft and at the same time moist cinnamon buns at home!
Course Baking, Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Cinnabon Frosting Ingredients, Cinnabon Ingredients, Cinnamon buns recipe, Cinnamon rolls Filling Ingredients, Cinnamon rolls from scratch, Easy cinnamon rolls recipe, Homemade cinnamon rolls, How to make cinnamon rolls from scratch, tasty cinnamon rolls
Prep Time 2 hourshours30 minutesminutes
Cook Time 25 minutesminutes
Total Time 2 hourshours55 minutesminutes
Servings 12buns
Calories 312kcal
Ingredients
Dough Ingredients for Cinnamon rolls
250mlmilk
28gfresh yeast
600gall-purpose flour
2eggsroom temperature
100gsugar
75gbutterroom temperature
⅔tsp.salt
Cinnamon rolls Filling Ingredients
200gsugar
20gground cinnamon
75gunsalted butterroom temperature
Cinnabon Frosting Ingredients
140gcream cheese
3tbsps.milk
120gicing sugar
½tsp.vanilla extract or 1 g vanillin
40gunsalted butter, room temperature
Instructions
How to make dough for cinnamon rolls. First, make sure that all the ingredients are at room temperature. In a small deep bowl, combine a small amount of milk with one teaspoon of sugar and all the fresh yeast. Give the ingredients a thorough stir, so that yeast fully dissolves.
Set it aside for 5 to 10 minutes to get the reaction from the yeast. You should get a fluffy foam at the top.
Pour the rest of the milk into a new deep bowl. Add salt, sugar and stir the mixture until smooth.
Melt butter in the microwave or using the water bath. Pour it into the milk.
Beat in 2 eggs, whisk until well-combined.
Combine the egg mixture with the yeast mixture. Sift flour through a siever. Add to the combine mixture in bunches and start kneading the dough.
As a result, you should get soft and airy dough. Transfer dough to a clean bowl, cover with oil and spread a clean tea towel over the top of the bowl. Store it for an hour at a cozy warm place.
While dough is rising, let’s make the filling. Combine sugar with ground cinnamon.
In an hour, the dough should be ready.
Roll it into a rectangle no more than 5 mm (0.2 inches) thick. Smear the top layer of the rolled dough with butter.
Sprinkle the mixture of sugar and cinnamon over the top.
Roll the dough into a tight log.
Cut the log into even rolls no more than 3 cm thick (0.1 inch). You will have somewhat in between 12 to 15 rolls.
Cover your baking tray with parchment paper and place rolls leaving some space in between. Cover the tray with a thin towel and leave it aside for an additional hour.
Preheat the oven at 350ºF/180°C and bake our Cinnabon copycats for 20-25 minutes.
Let’s make cream cheese icing while rolls are baking. Combine cream cheese, soft unsalted butter, vanilla extract, confectioner’s sugar, and three tablespoons of milk. Beat up all the components with a mixer until smooth.
Let rolls cool down a bit and then spread the icing over the top of steel warm rolls. Enjoy!