Cinnamon Rolls Recipe – Start To Finish [Video]
Cinnamon Rolls, popular dessert in North America. Tried and tested recipe helps make restaurant style glazed rolls easily at home. High in calorie.
Ingredients for making Dough
- 3/2 Cup All Purpose Flour (Maida)
- 1 Number Egg Yolk (No Egg white)
- 3 Tsp Powder Sugar (Or Normal Sugar can be grind to finer Sugar and used here)
- 25 Gms Butter Unsalted (Salted or unsalted. Unsalted is recommended.)
- 1/2 Tsp Vanilla Essence
- 1/4 Tsp White Salt
- 1 Tsp Dry Yeast
- 1/4 Cup Milk (Full Cream or 2% fat. Skim or no fat milk is not recommended.)
- 1/4 Cup Water
Ingredients for Cinnamon Rolls filling
- 2 Tbsp Butter Unsalted (Salted or unsalted. Unsalted is recommended.)
- 1/4 Cup Brown Sugar (Light or Dark. Light is recommended.)
- 1 Tbsp Powder Sugar (Or Normal Sugar can be grind to finer Sugar and used here.)
- 1/2 Tbsp Cinnamon Powder (Dalchini powder)
Ingredients for Glaze – Topping (Optional)
- 1/4 Tsp Vanilla Essence
- 1.5 Tbsp Cream-Cheese (Or Milk Cream – Called Malai in Hindi)
- 3 Tbsp Milk
- 1/2 Cup Powder Sugar (Or Normal Sugar can be grind to finer Sugar and used here.)
- 1 Tbsp Butter Unsalted (Salted or unsalted. Unsalted is recommended.)
Making dough
- Warm up the water and add 1 tsp Sugar (we will use the left-over sugar later) along with dry Yeast, in a bowl, big enough to hold it. Let it sit aside for 2 minutes.
- Melt butter in another bowl (you can use Microwave for 30 seconds) or melt it on stove. Add rest of the Sugar (left over from step above), warm milk , Salt, vanilla essence and mix well.
- We need to add the Egg White. Break the Egg and filter out the Yolk using the half broken Egg shells.
- Add this Egg yolk in butter mixture and mix well.
- Add this butter mixture to All-purpose-flour. Use a Sieve to filter out any small unwanted particles from the egg.
- Now, add Yeast water (from step 1) and then knead it to make a smooth dough.
- Take a bowl and grease its inner walls with 1 Tbsp Oil. Use this same oil to grease the Dough outer layer as well.
- Cover this bowl with lid and keep it in a warm place for fermentation for 1 hour.
Making Cinnamon filling
- To make use of this 1 hour, lets move ahead with nest step.
- Mix all 3 ingredients except Butter. This butter will be used separately with Dough later.
- Cinnamon filling is ready.
Giving Cinnamon rolls out of Dough
- After an hour, Dough would have fermented. You can see that it has fluffed a lot.
- Sprinkle some dry All-purpose-flour on desk and roll the fermented dough. Use a rolling pin here.
- Roll it into a square shaped flat-bread with a thickness of about 1 inch.
- Once done, grease its surface with melted butter from step 2 ingredients. You can either use your hand or a brush.
- Now add a layer of Cinnamon mixture (made with step 2 ingredients). Leave 1 inch space at all the corners vacant.
- Now, roll this flat-bread to give it a cylindrical shape. Press the last patch’s corners to make them stick with the body.
- Now, take a baking tray and grease it with Butter. You can also use butter paper here if you do not want to grease with Butter.
- Divide the whole log into 1.5 inches long pieces and place them in baking tray adjacent to each other.
- Baking tray is ready. But, we need to keep them again for 1 hour for some more fermentation before actual baking.
- After this 1 hour, you can see that rolls have fluffed a lot again. They almost look like they are ready.
- Total fermentation time was 2 hours (1 hour for dough and 1 hour for the rolls). They are now ready for baking.
- Pre-heat the Oven on 350 F (180 C) for 3 minutes and then bake rolls for 30 minutes on same temperature.
- You can also use Microwave Oven (Also known as Microwave with Convection mode).
- Add 1 Tbsp melted butter on top of the rolls just before adding them to Oven for baking.
- Lets complete our next step until rolls bake.
Making Cinnamon Glaze Kind of Milky Chashni – Optional
- Melt the butter and add warm milk to it.
- Add Cream cheese, Vanilla essence and Sugar. Mix them well to remove lumps and have dropping consistency.
- Glaze is ready.
Garnishing Cinnamon Rolls
- After 1/2 hour of baking, take out the rolls.
- Pour the Glaze on top of all Cinnamon rolls.
- They are ready to serve.