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THE Cinnabon Recipe

Course: Breads & Rolls
1st Gen Author: Janene Jensen

Ingredients

Rolls:

  • 2 tbsp yeast (1 1/4 oz package)
  • 1 cup warm milk
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/3 cup melted butter (do not substitute margarine-blech!)

Filling:

  • 1 cup brown sugar (I just sprinkle as much as I can and like, never measuring)
  • 2 1/2 tbsp cinnamon
  • 1/3 cup butter

Icing:

  • 7 tbsp butter softened
  • 1 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
  • 1/4 c cream cheese (2 oz)
  • 1/2 tsp real vanilla extract (or almond extract, which I prefer and use)
  • 1/8 tsp salt (I don't always use the salt, and in fact, like the taste better without it)

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 400 F
  • Dissolve yeast in milk.
  • Mix in sugar, butter, salt, eggs, flour. Mix well.
  • Turn dough out onto lightly floured surface.
  •  Knead into a large ball. Cover; let rise for 1 hour.
  • Roll dough into a 21" x 16" wide rectangle.
  • With the butter softened, I just use my fingers to spread it generously over the dough.
  •  Load 'er up with the filling (see below).
  • Roll from long-side to short-side. Pinch the ends.
  • Using very sharp knife (I prefer a serrated one) cut into 1 inch wide rolls, making sixteen.
  • Grease (butter) your preferred baking pan (I like mine to be all squished up next to the other)- I generally use an 11"x 15" pan.
  • Then place rolls in pan and into oven. Let the rolls rise for 30 minutes.
  • Bake until the rolls are slightly browned and not doughy. This will vary according to your oven. Just don't overbake.
  • When done, take them out and cover them in the delicious icing.

For Filling:

  • While dough is rising, prepare the filling and the icing.
  • Clean-up a little and then go read a chapter or two in your book.
  • Soften butter, so that it is spreadable.
  • After dough has been rolled out to the gigantic rectangle, spread the softened butter all over.
  • Sprinkle brown sugar over entire buttered rectangle. Use more, is you like more.
  • Now sprinkle the cinnamon over the now sugary, buttery, doughy, rectangle.

Filling:

  • Cream it all together with an electric mixer (or by hand if you just want to exhause yourself for some reason).
  • Spread on hot rolls.

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