Cinnamon Rolls

Submitted by Cookingfor7

"Want to be famous for your cinnamon rolls? After 12 years of working on the perfect cinnamon roll I settled on this... and now I'm famous with all my friends. Lately I've started adding 1/2 cup of sour cream to the dough mixture, and I've really liked the results."

 

• Ready In: 3hrs 30mins
• Ingredients: 16
• Yields: 24 rolls
• Serves: 24

ingredients

• 1⁄4 cup warm water
• 1⁄2 cup butter, melted
• 1 cup warm milk
• 1 egg, room temperature
• 1 (3 1/2 ounce) package vanilla instant pudding mix
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 4 cups bread flour
• 2 1⁄2 teaspoons bread machine yeast (one pkg.)
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 6 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1⁄2 cup butter, softened
• 2 1⁄2 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1⁄8 teaspoon salt

directions

1. In the pan of your bread machine, combine water, melted butter, vanilla pudding, warm milk, egg, 1 T. sugar, salt, bread flour and yeast. Set machine to Dough cycle. Press Start.
2. When dough cycle has finished, turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and roll into a 17x10 inch rectangle. Beat together butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. Spread dough with butter mixture.
3. Roll up dough, beginning with long side. Slice into 16 one-inch slices and place in buttered jellyroll pan (or a 9x13 and another small pan). Brush outside of rolls with melted butter and sprinkle with additional brown sugar.
4. Let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 45 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350º F. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes.
5. While rolls bake, beat together cream cheese, softened butter, confectioners' sugar, vanilla and salt. Remove rolls from oven and top with frosting.

Reviews

[VeggieLiz]

Fantastic recipe! I cut out half a cup of sugar in the frosting and it was still plenty sweet. Might cut out a little more next time.

 

[adopt a greyhound]

Definitely a great cinnamon roll. I don't think I have had better, anywhere. Loved the frosting and the rolls are wonderful. I did only use 1/2 c. butter in filling and added Recipe #15362 before rolling. Mine did take longer to raise but they are so worth the wait. I only had French Vanilla pudding mix so used that.

 

[Milkman's Daughter]

These cinnamon rolls were wonderful! I love the texture and flavor the pudding (I used fat free/sugar free) gave the dough when baked. I used a really soft butter and my cinn/brown sugar/butter mixture oozed when I rolled it and I had a mess. Next time I might spread the soft butter on the rolled out dough and then sprinkle on the cinn/brown sugar mixture before rolling and that might help the issue. Definitely LOVED these rolls. I just made simple powdered sugar/vanilla butter flavoring/milk icing. Thanks for a great recipe!

 

[Purplepen]

Just like Cinnabon, but much easier than the copy-cat recipe I found. Everything was great, but I couldn't figure out how to get 16 rolls in a 13x9 pan. I could only fit 12, and even then there wasn't enough room for rising, and the middle ones were slightly doughy. I put some in a round cake pan and they turned out great. Also, parchment paper helps with clean-up and makes them non-stick. All in all a WONDERFUL tasting roll and easy to make! These will become a regular treat in my house!! Thanks!!

 

[sweet2th]

These are awesome! I have been looking for a great cinnamon roll recipe, and this is the one! If you have problems with it rising you might try a little less sugar. Also, soft and lots of frosting is the way to go with me!