Homemade CinnaBuns- The easy way!
These cinnamon rolls have power behind them – real power. You could pretty much get anything you wanted if you showed up toting a plate of these babies, warm with icing oozing down the side. Regardless of their power, though, I want you to try to use them only for good. Rather than taking over the world (which I am waiting ’til I get both kids in school to do because I just don’t have the time needed to run it until I have at least another hour free each day), you can use them as wonderful gifts of gratitude and tokens of caring. I especially love that I can make these ahead of time and put them in the fridge to pop in the oven first thing in the morning – which makes your gifts of gratitude and tokens of caring all the more easier to provide!
I have been making these for years but only in the past few have I started using the shortcut method. While it’s fun to make the dough from scratch, its much more time consuming and not that easy on your hands (especially if you have arthritis ~raises hand~). Using store bought bread dough as opposed to making your own makes these super easy for anyone, regardless of experience in the kitchen, to turn out these supremely impressive cinnamon rolls.
If you have a loved one who is a devotee of the cinnamon rolls in the mall, expect them to become your number one fan the moment these come out of the oven.
In fact, my husband prefers them!
Of course, since I do have two ways of making these, I’m going to give you my easy way and then my homemade dough recipe at the bottom of the post just in case any of you want to try out that method as well. The tutorial will focus on the easy way, though. Life is complicated enough. 
To make these the easy way, you’ll need: White bread dough (1 loaf), a stick of margarine, cinnamon*, cream cheese, brown sugar, and confectioner’s sugar.
*Note: I’m using super cheap cinnamon. I paid all of .50 cents for it. You can pay a small fortune for a jar of cinnamon these days but I guess my tastes have never been refined enough to tell the difference.~grins~
Now, my confectioner’s sugar and brown sugar are in little sealed containers. I got tired of dealing with bags and such so I picked those up on my last trip to the grocery store. For those of you who know me and fear I may be ill – because this seems almost organized and that is soooooooooooo unlike me- rest assured this is a random act of organization and I don’t plan on making a habit of it. ~exhales in relief~ Yeah, that kinda scared me for a minute there, too!
This I promise… ~stands up and places a hand on her lapel in Abe Lincoln style~
I will always remain true to myself. You have my solemn vow that there will always be several piles of unfolded laundry, a pantry that looks like a tornado hit it most days, and empty coffee cups sitting near my computer along with various other assorted messes not just in one room, but throughout my entire house.
Don’t worry folks, I won’t let ya down!
Get out one loaf of bread dough and sit it on a plate at room temperature to thaw. This will probably take about an hour.
Just go check on it every now and then and poke it a bit to see if it is still frozen in the center. We need it completely thawed because we’re gonna take our rolling pin and put some elbow grease into flattening and stretching that puppy out!
In a small bowl, place brown sugar and cinnamon.
Mix those up.
I used one of Katy Rose’s “golden forks” for this. She was pretty proud of that.
Place your thawed bread on a floured surface.
I always roll out a bit of waxed paper to do this on for easy clean up.
I think more sentences in my life should include the words “Easy” and “clean up” together. Especially this time of year.
~sighs~
Now, putting some elbow grease into this, roll out your dough.
My original recipe called for it to be rolled out to about 16×21 but that was when I was making the dough from scratch. When I use a loaf of dough, I roll it out to about 9×16. It comes out just the same but you just don’t have as many spirals to your cinnamon rolls.
I hope I’m making sense here…been a pretty stressful morning .
Take half of your stick of melted butter and spread it over your dough.
Sprinkle your brown sugar mixture over it and pat down lightly. I leave a little bit of edge on each side to help it seal when we roll it up.
Carefully begin rolling it all up into a log.
Like this. Press that together just a little bit.
Using a serrated knife (because that is what works best for me, but if you prefer some other type feel free!) cut one inch slices all down your log.
Place the slices in a greased 9×13 pan.
I am using metal but you can use glass if you prefer, whatever you have on hand.
You really can’t mess these up.
Cover with cling wrap and place in a warm place to rise until doubled in size, which could take anywhere from two to four hours, depending on the temperature.
Sometimes it’s hard to find a warm place in your house in the winter time. In the summer, I go put them in the garage.
In the winter, I dry a load of clothes and set them on top of the washing machine, near the dryer. ~grins~
At this point, you can also put them in the refrigerator and let them rise overnight. They will rise much more slowly in the fridge so get up about an hour before you want to bake them because you may need to sit them on the counter for about an hour to let them finish rising.
Looky there! Isn’t that beautiful? See how easy this is?
Hint: Don’t be going bragging about how easy it is to your family because if they don’t know, you’re pretty much a sure thing for a sainthood nomination when you make these.
Remove cling wrap and bake at 400 for 15 minutes, or until lightly browned.
Meanwhile, back at the Duke place, Boss Hog developed a wild hankerin’ for some cream cheese icing. Being bighearted, Daisy decided to make it for him.
I watched way too much Dukes of Hazzard as a child…
Apparently, Ricky did too because when he saw the General Lee at a mall in Nashville this past weekend he about had a dying duck fit wanting me to take his picture by it.
Where was I? Oh ..yeah…Boss Hog wanted some cream cheese icing..
Place 1/2 brick cream cheese (recipe calls for 3 ounces, half of an eight ounce brick works for me!) and the other half of the stick of margarine in a mixing bowl.
Add confectioner’s sugar and cinnamon
The cinnamon gives your icing a bit of oomph!
Mix that up until smooth and creamy.
Ooooh…all ready!
Now I don’t put icing on mine in the pan, I serve them and let people put their own icing on.
I eat mine without any icing (I know, that is awful! But I can’t have the sugar and I still very much enjoy the cinnamon roll!) and my husband would pretty much put the entire bowl of icing on his if I let him…
Ooooh Lawdy, isn’t that gorgeous? These heat up well, too. I made them last night for dessert and we heated some for breakfast this morning. Delicious!
Cinna-Buns
- 1 loaf frozen white bread dough (such as Rhode’s)
Filling:
- 1/4 C butter or margarine, softened
- 1 C brown sugar, packed
- 3 T ground cinnamon
Icing:
- 3 ounce cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 C butter or margarine, softened
- 1 1/2 C confectioner’s sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla (optional, I usually just leave it out)
Place loaf of dough on plate and let sit at room temperature until thawed. Once thawed, roll out onto floured surface to a size of about nine inches by sixteen inches. Spread 1/4 C margarine over dough.
In small bowl mix together brown sugar and 3 T cinnamon. Sprinkle over top of cinnamon roll, stopping about 1/2 an inch away from the sides so it will seal (see photos). Carefully roll up cinnamon roll into a log and press lightly to seal. Slice into one inch slices with serrated knife. Place in greased 9×13 inch pan and cover with cling wrap. Place in warm spot and allow to rise until doubled in size. Remove cling wrap and bake at 400 for about 15 minutes, or until done.
Icing: Mix all ingredients together and beat with electric mixer until creamy. Spread over cinnamon rolls.
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From Scratch Dough
*This dough replaces the frozen loaf of bread dough. Use the rest of the recipe as written above.
- 1 Cup Lukewarm Milk
- 2 Large eggs, at room temp
- 1/3 C unsalted butter or margarine, cut up
- 4 3/4 Cups All Purpose Flour
- 1 3/4 tsp Salt
- 1/2 C Sugar
- 2 1/2 tsp instant or bread machine yeast
Place all of the dough ingredients into the pan of your bread machine in the order listed. Program the machine for dough or manual and press start. After about ten minutes, check the doughs consistency. It should be smooth, not too sticky and not too dry. Adjust it’s consistency with additional flour or water if necessary to allow the machine to complete the kneading.
*If not using a bread machine, combine all of the dough ingredients in a large mixing bowl and stir until mixture becomes cohesive. Transfer to lightly oiled work surface and knead by hand for five to eight minutes or until it is smooth. The way I think of smooth is…~looks around to make sure no one is listening~ it needs to be like a baby’s bottom.
Place kneaded dough in a lightly oiled bowl, turn to grease all sides. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let rise in warm place for one hour, until it is nearly doubled. Transfer to floured work surface and roll into a 16×21 inch rectangle. Spread with 1/2 stick margarine and sprinkle with cinnamon/sugar mixture. Complete using recipe above.
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Oh Yummy! This is by far better than those canned one’s I tend to get because I’m so lazy when it comes to cinnamon rolls. I am definitely gonna try this one out my family will be amazed at how hard I worked on them! LOL! Thanks Christy for another great recipe!
OMG, these are SO GOOD!!
I made them for breakfast, never again will i buy canned ones!!
I have made these rolls twice and they were a hit each time. I made an adjustment to the recipe that made it better for me. I used 1/2 brown sugar and 1/2 white it was much sweeter and didn’t cook down so hard. I had to lower the temp on my stove 275 for 10-12 minutes. They are very addicting. yummmy thanks for sharing that recipe with us.
Looks great, Christy! Will try these when my family is in town for Thanksgiving next week. Hint: if you can’t find a warm place free of drafts, you can put the dough in the oven to rise (just make sure the oven is turned off!) Also, buying spices in the “Mexican” food section of your grocery store will save lots of money. They’re much cheaper there. For those whose grocery stores don’t have the Mexican section…well, sorry.
Kathy, you need to exercise caution when buying Mexican vanilla. Here is a FDA link discussing how it can be adulterated with coumarin by disreputable dealers. That bargain price may not be such a bargain after all. I used to buy Mexican vanilla also but in light of this warning, figure it isn’t worth taking the risk. I first learned of this problem when it was mentioned by Alton Brown.
http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm048613.htm
Mexican vanilla can be dicy, but Mexican cinnamon, comino, onion powder, garlic powder, and spice mixes can be tasty and CHEAP!
Another great place is Indian and Asian grocery stores. I bought about a 1/2 pound of cumin for $2!
These look so incredibly good! I am going to try them out when the college kids are home for Thanksgiving. If I make them now I will have to buy all new pants as I will surely eat them all by myself!
thanks for the post!
Love the recipe!! Sorry I don’t do facebook, hon, I know you youngins all do, so I sure hope you don’t give up your blog. Loved your cookbook and hope you will do another. While I’m here…I used to have a recipe for Plantation Gingerbread from the 1800s and lost it…have you got a granny who made great gingerbread??? I will be indebted to whoever has a really old gingerbread recipe…hugs from Canada
Janie I have my Great Grandmothers cookbook her and it has several gingerbread recipies in it. The bok was given to grandma in 1891 so they are the good old fashioned recipes. E-mal me at karanmi@yahoocom and I can send your what I have here.
sorry should have reread. My e-mail is karanmi@yahoo.com
OH WOW!!!! Those looks so good I can almost smell it thru this computer. and so easy to make. Thanks for sharing.
*sigh*… you are now officially my new best friend. Cinnamon rolls are my absolute weakness!
I agree. I must be careful when I have cinnamon buns in our house. Did you know they actually “yell” at me? They call my name at every turn and I end up wearing them for years! lol
I love cinnamon rolls! I also like making orange sweet rolls. Loved your tip about putting them on a warm clothes dryer to rise. I would never have thought of that! I’m going to use that tip from now on. I think maybe my husband’s office wouldn’t mind some tomorrow! Thanks. I really enjoy your recipes! C. Vins
Can’t wait to try these! Love cinnamon rolls, and these look so easy!!
I am going to try these cinnamon buns asap. There is no other “treat” that tastes better than fresh cinnamon rolls. Ahhh! Thank you, dear friend. xoxox
Gosh these look so good and SO darned easy.
Mmmm… going to make these for the family on Turkey Day. It will help keep the guys out of the kitchen.
I can’t wait to try these! Yummy! I know things are getting hectic when I’m skimming through posts.
(psst…I love Dukes of Hazzard, too! ~grin~)
Thanks for all you do.
WOW! That looks sooo good!
And YES, making cinnamon roll dough, while yummy, is sooo time consuming that I only make it twice a year for Easter and Christmas. I hope to make it more now…yeah! 
Now…wonder if my commy has that???? I’ll have to check tomorrow.
Wow! Who knew it could be this easy! Thank you, Christy. This is another home run. Thank you also for providing the scratch dough recipe. Think I will double it and put the remaining half in the freezer for my next batch of your wonderful rolls. I can smell the cinamonny (yeah, I know there’s isn’t such a word but…)fragrance wafting from my oven already. Sheer heaven.
Do you know how awesome you are??!! All weekend I looked for a good recipe for HOMEMADE cinnamon rolls, tried one out that wasn’t all that great, and here you are with just what I need! These look yummy! I will be trying this recipe out in the next couple of days. THANKS for all you do!!!
This is perfect! I am wanting to do some type of cinnamon bread for Christmas gifts and have been looking for a recipe for a braided wreath, but I think this will be even better. Could you put them in a 9″ round cake pan?
Awesome! I’ll have to be sure and make these over the Christmas holiday while all the family is home. They will love it!
Mmmmm yummy – you make them look so easy too! Thanks!
Wow–these look awesome! And even easier than the copycat Cinnabon recipe I have. By the way, another trick to get them to rise a little faster is to put a heating pad under your pan. Works every time!
These look wonderful…I’ll be making them over the weekend!
I love cinnamon rolls but do not make them that often. It is troubling to me to spend so much time making them to have the finish product only last about 10 minutes in my house!! Maybe now I won’t mind when they disappear so quickly. Thank you so much for this quick and easy method.
Hint from someone without a good serated knife for cutting: Use dental floss to cut the roll into slices. Place the dental floss under the roll, bring it around to the top, criss-cross ends and pull until you get a nice clean cut. Works like a charm for me, but I wouldn’t recommend using flavored floss!
Thanks again!
Great Scott, Missy. That is an awesome tip and I, for one, surely appreciate your input. Can’t wait to make these for my honey pie hubby, a cinnabon fanatic for sure. Thanks Christy for another exciting and simple recipe. mmmm, I can smell it already.
I bet thread or fine fishing line would work in a pinch too…
These look yummy! Do you think you can let them rise the whole way and then refrigerate overnight to bake the next morning? I’m thinking Christmas morning.
Also, if ya’ll ever go to a “Cooter’s Place” … they have all kinds of Duke memoriabilia. (Just watch out for the posters of Daisy — grins) There are several locations. I’ve been to the one in Gatlinburg, TN. The stores were started by (and I guess still owned by) the guy that played Cooter (Ben Jones???). Sometimes, they have original cast members on hand to sign autographs. They also had a General Lee outside that you could have your picture made in. (small fee).
I am one of the customers that would order the big sticky decadent Cinnabon and order extra icing on the side! Of course that was in much younger years when I could eat what I wanted and not worry…sigh. These look uber yummy. I can’t wait to try them out on the kiddos…can I send them to your house when they are pinging off the walls?
Oh my goodness I can nearly smell those baking. My mom used to make cinnamon rolls often and became well known in our little town for her treats. I especially associate them with Easter morning at our church’s sunrise service. I was just thinking too, and I have never tried it, but maybe you could use that other half block of cream cheese on the dough before you rolled it up as I seem to recall that my mom stread her dough with butter which helped the cinnamon sugar stick while rolling the dough up.
Love Cinnamon rolls and will definately have to give these a try. Easy compared to making from sctatch.
Wow! I admit, I’m a sucker for those cinnamon rolls from the mall. And I very *very* rarely get to eat them because the only mall with one in it is far away. I get there maybe once a year.
However, with your handy recipe, forget the mall! I can’t wait to try this…just gotta get me some frozen bread dough first. ^_^
These may be too easy! But I will definitely try this recipe. The recipes from scratch look so hard. I think this will be a great recipe for the holidays….make ahead and freeze!!!
Now there ain’t one thing wrong with this!! YummmmO!!
These look wonderful. Will try them on the sweet monster dad of mine.
*drooling* I absolutely love Cinnamon rolls. I usually just buy a cheap can and eat them 2-3 times a month
Yum. I’ll have to make them with a different icing though. The parental units do not dig the cream cheese. I’m actually the only one who does.
Look wonderful, much quicker than from scratch.Getting older, and don’t have the energy for homemade yeast rolls. My frosting recipe calls for coffee and maple flavoring(husband is not a fan of cream cheese).Also put chopped nuts in with brown sugar and cinnamon on the dough. Will be trying this version soon!
They look so yummy I can’t wait to try them. You could also use dental floss for a easy way to slice the rolls. Just slip it under the roll, cross the ends and pull.
Hey, Christy! You have no idea how much I appreciate this post. For months, now, I have been wishing I could have homemade cinnamon rolls for my family on Christmas morning, but just didn’t know how I could handle it. All the other recipes I have seen just seemed too labor intensive for me to handle right now. Your shortcut recipe is perfect and I’m sure my family will love the rolls. I’ll be sure to give you credit on Christmas morning when they start oohing and aahing. Thanks a bunch, and have a great day!
I think these look so easy even I can bake them!!! (I’m a cook, not much of a baker! LOL)
Thanks, Christy! Making them over Thanksgiving for my family in Atlanta when we go visit.
all i can say is…i love you! i will definitely be trying these!
kim hays
Goodness, how beautiful & easy! Cannot wait to make these for my husband…he LOVES cinnamon rolls! Thanks for sharing, Christy, I really love Southern Plate!
If this works out right I’m number 42 posting and that is my actual age ~smiling proudly~ these look so delicious and then to find out they are easy sounds like a Thanksgiving morning breakfast item to me. I wish I could eat like I use to but no…. We always pass the general in Gatlinburg when going up into the park and for a small fee they will let you sit in the car and get your picture taken.
Could you make your recipes printable? That would be great if you did. I dom’t have a fact book account and need to do things the old fashioned way. Thank you.
Virginia: If you want to print this recipe, all you have to do is click at the beginning, slide to the end and “unclick”. Then, “copy” and “paste” it into your word document program. Print from there.
I’ve done that a bunch to print these yummy recipes. If you subscribe to this website, Christy sometimes emails out printable recipes too.
Oh man Christy that looks soooooooooo good!….mmmmmmm…..I’m gonna have to try these. I’m thinking of puting some pecans in them. I bet that would make a good Thanksgiving breakfast! ^_^
My grandmother made the best ( from scratch)cinnamon rolls in the world. She always said that if a woman puts icing on her cinnamon rolls she’s hiding some sort of flaw with her cinnamon rolls. I bet these are good enough without the icing. After all, don’t you want to taste the delicious cinnamon. I recommend using Vietnamese cinnamon for the best flavor ever.
Love the looks of these. And I prefer mine without the icing also. Of course, freak of nature that I am, I also prefer most cakes without icing. You are doing such a fabulous job! Keep it coming. God Bless you and yours~Laura
Speaking of which………do you have a recipe for Orange sweet rolls??? Or is the recipe the same and just the icing changes to orange flavored??
I love that you put “remove the plastic wrap and bake”!
I once forgot to remove it and it took until my hubby had his second one and found a bit of plastic that I realized my collasal mistake! LOL! He still teases me about it when I make them! “Don’t forget to take off the plastic wrap!”
~giggles~ Giiiirl, I’ve done the same thing! Lol! That’s why I included it in instructions, lol!
Being absentminded has a charm about it though, doncha think?
~grinning~
Christy
just made them- they are raising…man thats a workout..but easy- hope they turn out like yours Christy!! will let you know!!!
Don’t take this the wrong way, but my belt and trainer are cursing you for this post. Arrggggggh! My weakness, a cinnamon role. It is like kryptonite for me.
Made these for breakfast this morning using the Rhoads bread. YYYUUUUMMMMM! We will be having these for Christmas brunch. I am a horrible bread maker, but these worked out great. Thanks so much!
I made these today and they are WONDERFUL! They are so delicious and made the whole house smell like a bakery! Thank you so much for sharing.
Christy – just wanted you to know that I loved these so much that I blogged about them (and your site). You can read it here:
http://tammypanter.blogspot.com/2009/11/cinnabuns-recipe-from-southern-plate.html
These sound great; I’m going to start making them right now!
Just a tip that I learned from my mother – to slice the cinnamon rolls, use a heavy duty thread. Slide it under the log, bring the ends up to the top. Continue pulling in opposite directions and you will get a perfect cut.
Denise B.
Dallas
Hi Christy,
Just read the recipe and it looks delicious. Sad thing is that I don’t need those tempting me since I’m at a point in life where losing or even maintaining weight is getting more and more difficult. However, they sound like a great thing to make when I can share them.
I made your pecan pie muffins (in mini form) yesterday for a get-together with our wine group. They were a hit and I came home with a empty plate! The batch made 24 mini muffins, baked about 17-18 min. (linked to your recipe in my blog post)
I was wondering about adding a tsp. of vanilla, which I use in most of my baked sweets, even my absolutely best ever pecan pie. I use my Mom’s recipe and I’ve never had one better. She found the recipe in a newspaper over 50 years ago.
I am prepping these tonight to have for breakfast tomorrow! I’m so excited that I found Rhodes frozen white bread at the grocery store my husband works at!
Okay Christy… I need tips and tricks on rolling out this dough. Boy it was stubborn! I let it thaw completely, and then even let it sit a little longer because I thought the cold dough was causing it to keep pulling back.
What do you to to roll it out so nicely?
I want to know, too. I made them yesterday, but the dough was like elastic. I kept rolling it out and it kept shrinking back up. I did finally get it all rolled out and the cinnamon rolls were very yummy.
Now I have another question. Can I make these a day ahead of time and then pop them in the oven the next morning? I want to make them for Christmas breakfast, but I don’t want to have to start on them at 5 in the morning. It takes a while for them to rise. Well, for me it did.
Thanks for any tips and help.
Hey!
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I’m responding on me phone so please forgive if it’s short
This dough is gonna be very elastic so you just gotta put your weight into it. I press pretty hard on my rolling pin and even then it springs back and I have to take several goes at it. Make sure your rolling pin is floured so it doesn’t stick and you’re doing great!
As to the other question, I’m making these Christmas Eve and covering them in Saran wrap. Then I’ll put them in the fridge overnight and take out about thirty minutes before I bake them. Works great!
Back when I made the dough from scratch there were a few mornings where I got up at four thirty to make these, took FOREVER! sooo glad to have the frozen dough shortcut now!
Merry Christmas!
Thanks, Christy!
Hi Christy,
I loved the recipe…and I think it’s possibly the best/simplest one I’ve ever seen for CinnaBuns. I love the way you make things seem so doable.
One thing I thought I’d suggest, for people like me who like the CinnaBuns best when super-duper warm, and seem to have too many in a batch. I thought it might be a good idea to put them into two 8×8 square pans…rise/bake one for dessert, and put one pan in the refrigerator for the next morning (like Sunday before church). That way, there’s approximately one bun per person (since there’s the 4 of us in my little family), and each one would be eaten hot.
I’m on your husband’s side re: the cream-cheese frosting. Bring it on!!
Let’s see: white bread, dairy, fat, salt…seems like the ideal way to cause obesity, diabetes, heart disease. Eat more of these, we need to support the obscene medical establishment in this country. And America desperately needs MORE Fat pig humans. Maybe they’ll start making ambulances wider to acccomodate you fat pigs that eat this crap…
God love ya, this sounds like someone whose never had anyone love them enough to bake for them. Goodness knows I can’t see why with that sunshiney attitude.
Bless your sour little heart. I swear I wish I could just hug you and invite you into my kitchen. I reckon I could wrestle up some decaf, non-coffee coffee and serve it with organic soy milk. ‘Course we wouldn’t be able to add sugar and I’m sure you’d object to artificial sweeteners of any kind but if we could just get you to take a gander outside and maybe offer you a hug or two, you might could wrestle up a little smile and then I bet, just maybe, you could stir that coffee with your pinky and it just might add a little natural sweetness.
I know you got it in you, hon bun.
Hang in there sweetie, life is good and if you let it, it gets even better
Gratefully,
Christy
Wow Dr. Interfool, sounds like you have a case of verbal diarrhea. Maybe make yourself some of these wonderful cinnamon buns and it will keep your hands busy long enought to resist the urge to post ridiculous garbage on a recipe website.
Christy these cinnamon buns were fantastic, my boyfriend is absolutely hooked! Thankyou for making an ‘easy’ version!
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You are a very entertaining writer, and I can’t wait to entice my children home from college on the weekends with the promise of these Cinnamon rolls.
Ok – so these cinnamon rolls are amazing! And SO easy. They are actually sitting on my stove cooling right now. I stole one because I couldn’t wait, and then I ran up here to comment about how wonderful they were. I barely had a chance to clean the frosting off my finger tips. ( my apologizes to my keyboard!) The only thing I did different was I left the cream cheese out of the frosting. Too much of anything dairy upsets my stomach, so it was more of like a glaze the way I made it. Which was still great. My mom used to use the came ingredients to make a glaze for sugar cookies when we were little, so I figured it would work out just fine. Oh – and I added a little bit of vanilla. I don’t know how much, maybe teaspoon or so? Sounds good .. we will go with that!
Thanks for the recipe, can’t wait to try another Southern Plate meal. It seems like there just aren’t enough meals in a day sometimes! Ha-ha
Sounds like a wonderful recipe! I can’t wait to try it…but I’m not going to let my family know that I plan to try it until I make it! They’ll be pestering me nonstop if they know I play to make it.
Dr. Interfool, dahling, I imagine the stress of reading about all that fat, sugar,and (gasp!) white bread took at least 5 years off your bitter sounding heart! Maybe you ought not to be reading such shocking websites such as this. Can’t be good for you!
These look delicious!! I wanted to make them but I cannot find the Rhodes bread dough. Can anyone give me an idea of who carries it?
I’ll have to try these, definitely. I hadn’t thought of using frozen bread dough for cinnamon rolls. I’ve been making mini-cinnamon rolls for several years now w/ crescent rolls. When you take the dough out of the can, you don’t separate the rolls into triangles, you leave them in two rectangles and close the seams. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar on them, roll them up, cut them into five rolls, bake about 15 minutes, and frost them w/ conf. sugar glaze…melt-in-your-mouth yummy!
I’m gonna get some bread dough this week and fix them up Friday night and have these for breakfast Saturday morning. Come to think of it, I’m hoping our local grocery store carries it!
♥Susan
The fact that you use margarine instead of butter invalidates the whole deal. Margarine has no health benefits over butter but butter has far superior taste, especially cakes and cookies.
~giggle~
That isn’t why I used it, honey bunches. My readers know exactly why I did though.
God love ya!
CJ
Gee, Keith, use butter if you want to. Nobody’s going to send the margarine or butter police to monitor you.
~laughs~ Cathy, I love ya!!
Now Keith, if you ever happen to come back to your little comment here, I want you to take a deep breath…exhale..and unclench. It’s ALL GOOD!!!!
~hugs Cathy~
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I made this recipe for my boyfriend because he loves cinnamon rolls… he has declared I’m never allowed to buy them again! They were AWESOME, and I agree the cinnamon in the frosting adds a little zip. I’m currently making them for my parents and siblings since we’re all home for Christmas, and they were all looking over my shoulder and saying how great they look. Thanks for the recipe!
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These were so so good. I made them last night. There were fourteen of them. There is only five of us and they were all gone. I was hoping to atleast have one left for breakfast this morning. Thanks you for the wonderful recipe.
Sprinkle a little water on the counter and then lay the wax paper sheet on it. The paper won’t slide around when you roll out the dough.
This is a cool way to do a quick, easy cinnamon roll. (Luckily, I let my bread machine do the mixing and the rising, and then I’m at the rolling out point.)
BUT, I can’t believe no one mentioned that you should flip your cinnamon rolls over once out of the oven, so the ooey gooey stuff sinks back in and over. YUM! Just a tip I learned on another recipe.
(I am going to try your homemade doughnuts recipe tomorrow. Mmm..!)
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Guess what? This recipe make a fantastic king cake! I’m from New Orleans and have never made a home made king cake before. I’ve tried and it never worked out. Today the Saints are playing for a spot in the SuperBowl so I bake when I’m nervous. I looked at this recipe and thought it would make a good king cake dough. So I cut the cinnamin dough into 3 strips and made a braid put it in a circle. It tastes just like a bakery king cake down here!!! I just finished icing it with the icing and black and gold sugar (Saints colors) and everybody at my Saints game party is enjoying it. I never got a chance to take a picture it went so fast. The next time I make it I’ll send you a picture. This is slap ya mama good! THANK YOU!
HOW COOL IS THAT!!!!
Thank you for telling me, now I wanna make one!
Gratefully,
Christy