These easy cinnamon rolls are perfect for beginners who are just starting to bake with yeast. They're very forgiving and taste better than the mall!
Prep Time25 minutesmins
Cook Time25 minutesmins
Rising Time2 hourshrs30 minutesmins
Course: Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 12rolls
Ingredients
For the Cinnamon Rolls
3/4cupbuttermelted
1/4cupsugar
2eggs
1cupmilkwarmed
3/4tspsalt
4cupsflour
2 1/4tspdry active yeast(or one packet)
3tbspcinnamon
For Cream Cheese Frosting*
1cuppowdered sugar
2tbspbuttersoftened
4ozcream cheesesoftened
1tspvanilla
Instructions
Mix 1/2 cup of melted butter with milk and yeast.
In a separate bowl, whisk salt, sugar, and flour.
Check your wet ingredients to make sure your yeast has become slightly frothy at the top. That means your yeast is working. If your yeast has not frothed or foamed at all, you may need to try a new pack. Assuming your yeast is fine, add wet and dry ingredients together and add eggs. Mix until all ingredients are incorporated and homogenous, but do NOT knead the dough.
Place dough in a greased, sealed container and place in warm spot to rise for about two hours or until doubled in size. At this point, you can either continue making the recipe or place your sealed container in the fridge to use at a later time.
Roll dough out into a rectangle roughly 12-14 inches wide. The dough should be somewhere between 1/4 and 1/2 inch thick.
Brush the rectangle of dough with remaining melted butter. Generously sprinkle cinnamon over the dough, leaving no empty patches.
Slice the rectangle once in half vertically and then five times horizontally, so you get 12 strips each about 1.5 inches wide and 6 inches long. Roll each strip into a tight spiral.
Lay the cinnamon roll pieces flat in a greased 9x13" baking dish, leaving space between each piece for the next rise.
Cover the dish and let rise for another half hour. Meanwhile, preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
After 30 minutes, your cinnamon rolls should look puffy and be almost touching. Place in oven and bake for about 25 minutes.
When rolls are done, let them cool almost completely to room temperature. Meanwhile, make the frosting by beating all ingredients together either in a stand mixer or with an electric beater.
When cinnamon rolls have cooled, smother with frosting and enjoy!
Notes
*If you REALLY like to smother your roll in frosting, or maybe you just like some extra, you can double the frosting recipe. I actually feel like it's too much if I use a double batch, but my sweet toothed husband disagrees.