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Cinnamon Rolls With Cream Cheese Frosting

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Make these and you can get your people to do absolutely anything for you! From the time it takes to bake to allowing them to cool and frost, everyone will be lined up for a taste! Make the night before and refrigerate until morning, and when you wake up put them right into the oven for a special breakfast.

Ingredients

  • FOR THE ROLLS:
  • 1 cup Warm Water (110F)
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 2 Tablespoons Sugar
  • 2 Tablespoons Flour
  • 1 package Dry Yeast, About 2 1/2 Teaspoons
  • 3 Tablespoons Melted Butter, Cooled
  • 1 cup Warm Milk, Microwave For 30 Seconds And Stir
  • 2 whole Beaten Eggs
  • ¼ cups Whole Wheat Flour
  • 4-½ cups To 5 Cups All-purpose Flour
  • Flour For Rolling Out
  • 2 Tablespoons Softened Butter
  • 1-½ Tablespoon Cinnamon
  • ½ cups Brown Sugar
  • _____
  • FOR THE FROSTING:
  • 3 Tablespoons Softened Butter
  • 4 ounces, weight Cream Cheese, Softened
  • 3 cups Powdered Sugar
  • 3 Tablespoons Milk
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla

Preparation

1) In a large mixing bowl, add warm water, salt, sugar, 2 tablespoons of flour, and dry yeast, whisk to blend. Let stand for 10 minutes.
2) Meanwhile, melt butter in microwave and cool until warm. (No hot ingredients can go into the yeast mixture, it will kill it!) Add cooled melted butter to yeast mixture. Add warm milk and beaten eggs as well.
3) Add whole wheat flour and 3 cups of all purpose flour. Beat so there are no lumps. Add 1 ½ cups of additional flour to the bowl. Stir until most ingredients have moistened.
4) Dump the dough onto a lightly floured board or counter top. Knead for about 2-4 minutes (adding small amounts of flour to the dough if too sticky) until you have a soft ball of dough.
5) Grease a medium size bowl with butter and place the dough ball into it. Butter the top of the dough with one teaspoon of softened butter. Cover with a clean kitchen towel and place in a draft free, warm space. Allow to rise for 45-60 minutes or until doubled in bulk. Press with fingers and when you leave fingerprints in the dough it’s ready.
6) Punch down the dough to release the air. Plop the dough onto a lightly floured board. Roll into a large rectangle, about 16”x 24”.
7) Smear the two tablespoons of softened butter over the dough, distribute evenly.
8) Generously sprinkle the rectangle with cinnamon. I do not measure the cinnamon, just be sure to have an even coating of cinnamon.
9) Evenly distribute the brown sugar over the rectangle.
10) Starting at the bottom of the rectangle, roll to the top, rolling as tightly as possible. Punch the ends together and seal the seam that runs down the roll.
11) Generously butter two 9” cake pans. Cut the log of dough into 1” slices and place into pans. Cover with the kitchen towel and allow to rise again for 45-60 minutes.
12) While the rolls are rising, make the frosting. In a small and deep bowl, beat the softened 3 tablespoons of butter and 4 ounces of cream cheese until blended. Add powdered sugar all at once and 2 tablespoons of milk, and vanilla. Beat on lowest speed. Add the last tablespoon of milk, scrape down the sides. Add a little more milk if necessary. I dare you not to taste!
13) Preheat oven to 350F. Bake rolls for 25 minutes. Remove from the oven. Cool for about 5 minutes. Invert onto a plate to get it out of the pan and then onto serving plate so that the cinnamon rolls are right side up. Ice with the frosting. Enjoy!

*Do not allow to cool for long in the pans, the butter/sugar mixture will harden and make the rolls stick to the pan.
*If you’d like the rolls in the morning, right after you shape them into cinnamon rolls, cover with plastic wrap and kitchen towels. Refrigerate overnight. Go right from the refrigerator to a 350F preheated oven. They may take a few minutes longer to bake.

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Sarah on 3.10.2012

These are good cinnamon rolls but defiantly double the icing.

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Erin on 12.23.2011

My family loves these!

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