How to Make Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cinnamon Rolls
Most people are intimidated by the thought of making cinnamon rolls. With this simple step-by-step guide, pictures included, you should be well on your way to dazzling your friends and family with these delicious cinnamon rolls.
Ingredients
Dough
- ¼ cup warm water
- 1 cup warm milk
- ½ cup margarine, melted
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ cup sugar
- 4 ½ cup white bread flour
- 2 ¼ tsp bread machine yeast (1 envelope)
Cinnamon Filling
- 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
- 3 tbsp cinnamon
- ½ cup margarine, softened
- Cream Cheese Frosting:
- ½ cup cream cheese, softened
- ½ cup margarine, softened
- 1 ¾ cup powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/8 tsp lemon flavor
Method
- Put the dough ingredients in the bread machine in the order listed above (or according to your bread machine manual.) Prepare dough using dough setting on bread machine.
- Just before you begin rolling out the dough, warm your oven up to 200°F. When it is up to temperature, turn the oven off. The rolls will rise in the slightly warmed oven.
- Mix 1 cup of brown sugar and 3 Tbsp cinnamon from the filling recipe. Allow the ½ cup of margarine to soften at room temperature.
- After the dough cycle has completed, roll and stretch the dough out on a lightly floured surface into about a 10″ by 20″ rectangle.
Spread margarine on the dough, leaving an inch unbuttered along the two wide sides so that you can seal the roll. Evenly distribute the Sugar and Cinnamon mixture. Be careful to leave your 1″ edges clean.
Cut the dough in half so that you have two slabs, 5 inches high and 20 inches wide.
Roll the dough, starting at the dressed edge, towards the unbuttered edge. Pinch the clean edge with the roll to seal it.
Trim off the left and right ends of the roll. Mark the roll into 15 equal portions. Cut along the marks to form 15 rolls, just over an inch wide. Repeat with the second roll.
Either grease two 9×13 pans or line them with parchment paper. Place 15 rolls in each pan.
Cover with plastic wrap and let them rise in the pre-warmed oven for about 45 minutes (until doubled in size).
After rising, remove plastic wrap and bake at 335°F for 20 minutes. The resulting rolls should be only lightly browned.
While the rolls are baking prepare your cream cheese frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting
Ingredients
- ½ cup cream cheese, softened
- ½ cup margarine, softened
- 1 ¾ cup powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/8 tsp lemon flavor
Method
- Mix cream cheese and margarine for 5 minutes until thoroughly mixed and creamed.
- Add 1 cup of the powdered sugar and mix for 1 minute on low. Add the remaining 3/4 cup of powdered sugar and mix for an additional minute.
- Lastly, add the vanilla and lemon flavor and whip for 1 minute on medium.
- When the rolls are finished baking, frost them while they’re still warm and serve them immediately.
# 1 by Babyface Jam
July 22nd, 2009 at 10:40 am #
Ooo. Makes me hungry! Good recipe.
# 2 by Octane
July 22nd, 2009 at 10:57 am #
This would be great even if all you did was post the pictures. Mmmmm good.
# 3 by lukrisi
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:08 pm #
I’d love to hear comments from everyone after they’ve tried the recipe. Whether it was easy to make, how they turned out… That kind of stuff.
# 4 by gaffneygirl
July 22nd, 2009 at 8:55 pm #
great recipe and I love the pics, it really helps to understand the steps. mmmm yummy, so….can i come over since you already have them made? ;=)
# 5 by lukrisi
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:59 pm #
gaffney, you don’t think that they lasted that long, do you?
# 6 by papaleng
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:27 pm #
you touched my weakness, pastries..
# 7 by D Pearson
July 23rd, 2009 at 3:25 am #
Ooh, they look lovely. The problem is that it seems rather greedy to make a whole batch for myself, since my husband can’t stand cinnamon… although I suppose I could freeze some… they’d make a yummy breakfast.
# 8 by clafleur
July 23rd, 2009 at 4:03 am #
i like because you added pics. There are a lot of recipes i have seen, and no pictures. I need to be able to see something to make me want to taste it.
# 9 by Mr. Syed
July 23rd, 2009 at 4:14 am #
Awesome … I love cinammon rolls!
# 10 by lukrisi
July 23rd, 2009 at 7:08 am #
D Pearson – I only ever make these if I have occasion to give them away. They are far too dangerous and tempting to keep 30 cinnamon rolls around the house!
# 11 by Anders Hegelund
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:50 pm #
Looks tasty!!
# 12 by Payge
July 24th, 2009 at 1:14 am #
Awesome recipe….this is one of my favorite things to eat.
# 13 by athena goodlight
July 24th, 2009 at 4:05 am #
oooooooohhh! I’d love to able to make those! Excellent recipe! thanks for sharing.
# 14 by Dr Curtis Barnett
July 24th, 2009 at 8:08 pm #
Worthy of Better home & Garden!
My kids will go nuts for these, thank you.
It’ll be a fun project for us!
# 15 by Lokie58
July 26th, 2009 at 12:01 pm #
They seem simple enough to make. I will try them. I always just used frozen bread, but these look so much better! Thanks for sharing.