Eat Your Heart Out Cinnabon Cinnamon Rolls Recipes

NINETY MINUTE CINNAMON ROLLS

Steps:

• Heat the milk in a small saucepan until it bubbles, then remove from heat. Mix in butter; stir until melted. Let cool until lukewarm.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine 2 1/4 cup flour, yeast, sugar and salt; mix well.Add Water, egg and the milk mixture; beat well. Add the remaining flour, 1/2 cup at a time, stirring well after each addition. When the dough has just pulled together, turn it out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth, about 5 minutes.
• Cover the dough with a damp cloth and let rest for 1-0 minutes. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix together brown sugar, cinnamon, soften butter.
• Roll out dough into a 12x9 inch rectangle. Spread dough with butter/sugar mixture. Sprinkle with raisins if desired. Roll up dough and pinch seem to seal. Cut into 12 equal size rolls and place cut side up in 12 lightly greased muffin cups. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes, or until browned. Be sure to put muffin tin on a cookie sheet to prevent any possible spills. Remove from muffin cups to cool. Serve warm.

EAT YOUR HEART OUT, CINNABON: CINNAMON ROLLS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
• Cook milk over med heat till a skin forms on top. Make sure not to boil the milk though!
• Pour the hot milk over the 7 oz. packet of active dry yeast. Dissolve the yeast completely by stirring constantly. Make sure it is fully dissolved though before moving on to next step.
• Put this mixture of yeast and milk into mixer with the paddle attachment. Add butter, then add sugar, salt, and pudding mix and mix till combined, Add both eggs 1 at a time, mixing for 30 sec or till just fully combined. Add flour 1 cup at a time, mix well- the dough is ready when it forms a ball around the paddle attachment and the sides of the bowl are almost fully free of any dough. If it is so sticky that you can't get it off your fingers, then add more flour- 1 tbsp at a time, until the dough is smooth, but still a little sticky. Put this ball of dough into a slightly oiled casserole dish and cover it with a damp paper towel. Put into preheated oven and turn oven off. Let double in size (about an hour).
• While the dough is rising, mix together the melted butter, brown sugar and vanilla ice cream in a pot over med heat. Stir constantly so it doesn't burn. When the mixture thickens and is bubbling, remove from heat and pour into a 9 x 13 GLASS pan (slightly greased).
• When dough has doubled, (1 hour) put dough onto lightly floured surface and roll out to approximately 16 x 21. Have the filling ready (melted butter in one bowl and the cinnamon and brow sugar mixed together in a separate bowl) and spoon melted butter over entire surface of the top of the rolled out dough. Make sure the entire surface is covered. Crumble the cinnamon/brown sugar mix over top evenly. Start on edge of one of the longest sides and start to roll fairly tightly. Cut into 12 rolls and place them 1" apart in the prepared 9 x 13 pan with the caramel sauce already in the bottom. Place back in oven for 1 hour to let double again. (I usually re-heat to 200 and turn off again when I replace the rolls into the oven to double for the second time)It may take more than an hour, but it needs to double in size to get the fluffy texture.
• At this point place into oven at 350 degrees for 20 to 30 minutes. Make sure to check the middle rolls though before taking them out of the oven. Sometimes the middle ones don't cook as evenly as the exterior ones do -- raw middle rolls are icky.
• As the rolls are baking -- make the frosting and frost the rolls when you are ready to serve (WARM) (serve shortly after you remove them from the oven) -- enjoy- these are sinful.
• PS- You don't want to refrigerate these overnight in my opinion- I tried that and was disappointed in the lack of fluffiness. They still tasted wonderful, but just weren't as fluffy as I wanted them.

" BETTER THAN CINNABON" CINNAMON ROLLS

Steps:

• Combine warm water, sugar and yeast. Set aside.
• In microwave, melt butter.
• When butter is melted, add milk and warm to take the chill off.
• Add beaten egg and yeast mixture (it should be foamy by now) mix gently and pour into pan of bread machine.
• Add flour to bread machine pan, one half of the pudding mix and salt.
• Place pan in machine and allow to complete dough cycle. (If dough is sticky add a 1/4 to a half cup of flour during kneading.
• When dough cycle is complete, roll out dough to approximately 17"x10".
• Spread dough evenly with 1/2 cup softened butter and sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon.
• Roll up dough starting with the long side. Cut into approximately 16 even pieces and place in a 9x13 pan (they will be snug)
• At this point you can cover and refrigerate until the next day or let rise 45 minutes.
• Bake at 350F for 20 minutes until golden brown on top.
• Make frosting, beat together cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar, remaining pudding mix and milk to a spreading consistency.
• Frost rolls after the have cooled slightly.
• Serve immediately for best results.
• It is my understanding that this recipe does not freeze well.

FAMOUS CINNABON ROLLS

Steps:

• ROLLS: In a bowl combine water, yeast and sugar.
• Stir until dissolved.
• Set aside.
• In large bowl, take pudding mix and prepare according to package directions.
• Add margarine, eggs and salt.
• Mix well.
• Then add yeast mixture.
• Blend.
• Gradually add flour; knead until smooth.
• Place in a greased bowl.
• Cover and let rise until doubled.
• Punch down dough and let rise again.
• Then roll out on floured board to 34 x 21" size.
• Take 1/2 cup soft margarine and spread over surface.
• In bowl, mix 2 cups brown sugar and 4 teaspoons cinnamon.
• Sprinkle over top.
• Roll up very tightly.
• With knife, put a notch every 2".
• Cut with thread or knife.
• Place on lightly greased cookie sheet 2" apart.
• Take hand and lightly press down on each roll.
• Cover and let rise until double again.
• Bake at 350 15-20 minutes.
• Remove when they start to turn golden.
• DON'T OVER BAKE.
• To make frosting, mix all ingredients until smooth.
• Frost warm rolls with Cream Cheese Frosting.