Cinnamon Rolls. After testing many recipes for cinnamon rolls I found that just about any home-made roll can be good if you have the right icing. In too many recipes the cream cheese flavor overpowers the icing. Use this recipe for decadent cream cheese icing on your favorite cinnamon roll and you won't be disappointed! Cinnamon Rolls

You can have Cinnamon Rolls using 17 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Cinnamon Rolls
  1. It’s 1 cup of whole milk.
  2. Prepare 2 of eggs room temperature.
  3. You need 1/3 cup of butter room temperature.
  4. You need 4 1/2 cups of all purpose flour.
  5. It’s 1/2 tsp of salt.
  6. You need 1/2 cup of sugar.
  7. It’s 1 package of active dry yeast.
  8. It’s of Filling.
  9. Prepare 1 cup of brown sugar.
  10. You need 3 tbsp of cinnamon powder.
  11. You need 1/3 of soften butter.
  12. You need of Icing.
  13. Prepare 4 oz of cream cheese.
  14. You need 1/4 cup of softened butter.
  15. You need 1 1/2 cup of powdered sugar.
  16. It’s of Vanilla.
  17. Prepare 1/8 tsp of salt.

The dough I ultimately created is best made over two days. Not only does this break up the work, but I think the flavor from a slow-risen dough tastes better. ***This is the original Cinnamon Roll recipe! All other sweet roll recipe variations that I do come from this. Let's start by making the dough.

Cinnamon Rolls step by step

  1. Pre heat oven 350.

  2. Warm milk, add yeast. Stir and allow to bloom.(begins to look foamy or blob growing on top of milk….about 25-30 minutes.

  3. Add melted 1/3 cup of butter into mixing bowl. Add milk/yeast mixture. Add 1/2 cup of sugar, salt and 2 cups of flour. Mix..

  4. Once mixed, add remainder of flour. Don't be nervous…dough will be sticky..

  5. Dump sticky dough onto floured silicone baking mat. With floured hands, knead and add additional flour until dough forms into soft ball..

  6. Spray bowl with non stick spray, and add dough back to bowl. Cover and allow to rise in warm area. Once dough has risen or doubled in size, add to floured mat. Knead again. Roll out dough. Slather with butter..

  7. Sprinkle with cinnamon mixture. In this batch, I added blueberry preserves instead..

  8. Roll up dough as if rolling a cigar. If dough feels soft… add to freezer just until firm..

  9. Cut the thickness desired and place in greased pan..

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  11. Cover again and allow to double in size/rise in warm area..

  12. Bake til.

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  14. Slather with cream cheese frosting..

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This cinnamon roll recipe makes the absolute best, gooiest cinnamon rolls for the follwoing reasons: The rolls touch each other while baking. After the cinnamon rolls rise they will be touching each other on all sides (except for the part pointing to the outside of the pan). These cinnamon rolls can easily be made ahead. For best results, choose one of the following two methods. OVERNIGHT INSTRUCTIONS: After you've rolled and cut your cinnamon rolls and placed them into your lightly greased baking pan, cover with plastic wrap and place in your refrigerator.