Cinnamon Rolls
Servings 12 Buns
Ingredients
Dough
- 450 g Strong White Flour
- 50 g Golden Caster Sugar
- 1 tsp Ground Cinnamon
- 50 g Butter
- 1 Large Egg
- 150 ml Milk
- 14 g Yeast
- ½ tsp Vanilla Extract
Filling
- 2 tbsp Cinnamon
- 175 g Light Brown Soft Sugar
- 25 g Butter melted
Icing
- 190 g Icing Sugar
- 125 g Cream Cheese
- 60 g Butter
- ½ tsp Vanilla Essence
- 1 tbsp Milk
Instructions
- Sift the flour into a large bowl, and add the caster sugar and yeast. Mix these together so its all evenly distributed. Rub the butter into the mixture so it resembles bread crumbs, like you would when making scones.
- Gently heat the milk until warm - but not piping hot. If heating in a pan, you want it to just about start having steam come out of the pan. Add the milk, vanilla, and egg to the dry ingredients.
- Knead the dough together for 7-10 minutes. It will be sticky at first, but it will soon come together. Once kneaded, it will be springy to touch, and not sticky.
- Transfer into a lightly oiled bowl, and cover the top of the bowl with cling film. Let it rise for 1-2 hours, or until doubled in size.
- Whilst the bread is proving, whisk together the light brown sugar, and ground cinnamon for the filling. Leave to the side for now.
- Once the dough has risen, transfer to a lightly floured work surface, and roll out to a large rectangle.
- Gently brush the surface with the 25g of melted butter, and then sprinkle over the sugar/cinnamon mix.
- Roll the dough from long side to long side, so that a ~long sausage~ is formed. Cut this evenly into 12 pieces.
- Using a large rectangular baking dish, mine was 30cmx24cm roughly, put them in. They won't touch yet, but you want four rows of three basically.
- Cover the dish with clingfilm, and let them rise for another hour or so. By the end, they should all touch.
- Towards the end of the dough rising, preheat the oven to 180C/160CFan so that when its finished rising, you can put it straight in the oven. Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes, until golden brown and cooked through.
- Add butter and cream cheese to a large mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth and creamy. Add sugar, vanilla and milk.
- Beat until smooth. When cinnamon rolls are ready, pour over cream cheese frosting while they’re still warm.