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Cinnabon Cinnamon Roll Recipe

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Cinnabon Cinnamon Rolls

Cinnabon Cinnamon Roll Recipe


Who can resist a warm gooey cinnamon roll, straight from the oven. Even better – add some cream cheese icing and you have got yourself one of the tastiest treats! I have been using the same cinnamon roll recipe for several years now, and it is one I got from a friend. She deemed it as the Cinnabon Cinnamon Roll Recipe. I don’t know if these rolls are exactly like the Cinnabon Cinnamon Rolls, but they taste just as good (or better, in my opinion).

I will warn you that this particular recipe is for use in a bread machine, but I have made it without. The bread machine is just for making the dough, so as long as you knead and allow dough to rise properly without the machine, you should be good to go. The dough cycle on my bread machine runs for an hour and a half, and it kneads and rises at least a couple of times during it’s course. I’d love to hear if any of you give this a try, without a bread machine.

Cinnabon Cinnamon Roll Recipe
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Serves: 15
Ingredients
  • 4 Tbs melted butter
  • 4 Tbs water
  • 1/2 box instant vanilla pudding (half of the 3.4 oz box)
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 egg
  • 1 Tbs sugar
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 4 cups bread flour (will still taste good with all-purpose flour)
  • 2 1/2 tsp yeast
  • 1/2 softened butter
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • Frosting:
  • 4 oz cream cheese, softened
  • 1/4 cup butter, softened
  • 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 1/2 tsp milk
Instructions
  1. Place the first 9 ingredients in the bread machine (butter through yeast).
  2. Set bread machine for the dough cycle (should be about 1.5 hours). Knead and let rise several times if not using a bread machine.
  3. Remove dough from bread machine and roll out to a 17″x10″ rectangle.
  4. Spread softened butter over dough and sprinkle with brown sugar & cinnamon.
  5. Roll dough from long end, like a jellyroll.
  6. Pinch ends to close.
  7. Slice rolled dough into 1/2″ slices. This is easy to do using unflavored dental floss.
  8. Place rolls into greased pan and let rise until doubled. This works best if you cover pan with a clean towel and place on top of the oven while it preheats.
  9. Bake rolls at 350°, for 15-20 minutes, until golden.
  10. Mix all frosting ingredients until smooth.Spread on warm rolls.

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  1. Linda Raby says

    I make this every year for Christmas morn. For the filling I mix the softened butter, brown sugar and cinnamon all together and then spread on the dough. For the frosting, I add a tablespoon of pure maple syrup. These rolls are fantastic.

  2. Karen Medlin says

    Thank you for sharing, I have not tried to make cinnamon rolls from scratch before.. looks easy, Like all your step by step photos, wish me luck.. going to give this a try.

  4. Heidi Boatman Meeks says

    I would LOVE to try to make homemade cinnamon rolls! I don’t have a bread maker, so it would be even more fun!!

  7. Tiffany Lund says

    Now I have another use for my bread maker! This will be an awesome Sunday morning surprise for my husband. He won’t believe I made them myself. Lol! Thanks for sharing!

  17. Cammie says

    Thank you so much for putting this in printable form. So many sites don’t and then there are so many graphics that it makes it impossible to print the screen.

  19. Angela Holland says

    I made these cinnamon rolls this morning and they were delicious! My son loved having freshly baked soft cinnamon rolls. I will definitely make them again. Thank you for sharing the recipe.

  22. Evelyn says

    Has anyone tried freezing these uncooked? If so at what point did you freeze them and how did they turn out

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