Natalie's Easy
Cinnamon Rolls Recipe

by Natalie
(Saskatchewan, Canada)

A delicious and very easy cinnamon rolls recipe with cream cheese icing. Yields 10 to 12 yeast-free cinnamon rolls.

What you'll need to make these easy cinnamon rolls...

Recipe Ingredients:

Dough

• 2 cups all purpose flour (plus a little extra for rolling out dough)
  
  
• 2 tbsp sugar
  
  
• 1 1/2 tbsp baking powder
  
  
• 1/2 tsp salt
  
  
• 1/4 cup melted butter (can substitute with melted margarine or vegetable oil)
  
  
• 3/4 cup cold milk
  
  

Filling

• 1/3 cup soft butter
  
  
• 1 1/3 cups packed brown sugar
  
  
• 2 tbsp cinnamon
  
  
• 1/2 cup raisins (optional)
  
  

Icing

• 1/2 package cream cheese (4oz, 125g)
  
  
• 1 to 1 1/2 cups icing sugar (until right consistency)
  
  
• 1 to 2 tbsp milk
  
  
• 1 Ziploc sandwich bag
  
  

How the cinnamon rolls are made:

• Preheat oven to 375F
  
  
• In large bowl put flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt
  
  
• In another bowl or container add milk and melted butter and stir
  
  
• Make a well in the flour mixture and pour in the milk/butter
  
  
• Stir to form a soft dough
  
  
• Turn out onto a lightly floured surface
  
  
• Sprinkle more flour over dough if too sticky
  
  
• Knead 8 to 10 times
  
  
• Roll out a rectangle about 1/3 inch thick and 12 inches long
  
  
• Spread the filling soft butter over the dough
  
  
• In a new small bowl, combine brown sugar and cinnamon and spread over butter
  
  
• Sprinkle raisins over dough, if desired
  
  
• Roll up like a jelly roll
  
  
• Mark first, then cut into 10 to 12 slices
  
  
• Place in greased 9X13 inch pan
  
  
• Bake 20-25 minutes or until golden brown
  
  

How to ice the cinnamon rolls:

• Place all icing ingredients into a bowl and beat together
  
  
• Take a ziploc sandwich bag and add the cream cheese icing
  
  
• Remove any air from the bag and zip it closed
  
  
• cut a slit at one of the bottom corners
  
  
• Gently squeeze the bag pushing the icing in the direction of the hole
  
  
• Start at the center of the roll and slowly spiral outward until you have completely iced the cinnamon roll
  
  
• Repeat until all the cinnamon rolls have been iced
  
  
• Serve
  
  

Once baked, these cinnamon rolls will freeze well in the pan covered in tinfoil for up to 6 weeks. Once defrosted, heat rolls and cover with icing just before serving

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