Cinnamon Rolls

Hello Everybody!
This week's blog post is for a classic; Cinnamon Rolls! Even though I say these are a classic I've never actually made them before. I'm not sure why but cinnamon rolls always remind me of autumn and when the weather gets cosy, so I thought these would be perfect for my first autumn post.
This recipe has a couple of different stages so let's get started...

The equipment you'll need:

• weighing scales
• a tablespoon
• a teaspoon
• three mixing bowls
• small bowl
• baking parchment
• a lined round cake pan
• rolling pin
• sharp knife

The first part of the recipe is to make the dough and to do this you'll need:

• 350g self-raising flour
• pinch of salt 
• 2tbsp caster sugar
• 1tsp ground cinnamon
• 100g melted butter
• 2 egg yolks
• 200ml milk

1. First thing's first preheat your oven to 180°c/ gas mark 4.

2. Place the flour, salt, sugar and cinnamon into one of your bowls and mix them.

3. Next take your small bowl and melt your butter. I did this in the microwave by putting the butter in for 10second blasts and mixing after each blast until melted.

4. Take your second mixing bowl and place the egg yolks, milk and butter inside and whisk together.

5. When your wet ingredients are incorporated, you can add them to the dry ingredients and mix to form a soft dough.

6. Place a sheet of baking parchment onto your surface and lightly sprinkle some flour onto your rolling pin.

7. My dough was a bit wet so I just moulded it a bit in my hands and it came together into a nice and smooth dough. I then placed this onto the parchment and rolled it out into a rectangle.

Step 2

Step 5

Step 7 - Dough consistency

Step 7 - Dough thickness

Your dough is ready to go now so you can start making the filling:

• 1tsp ground cinnamon
• 55g demerara sugar
• 2tbsp caster sugar
• 15g melted butter

For the filling all you need to do is mix all the ingredients together and spread it onto the dough - similar to putting the tomato onto a pizza dough.

1. The next step is to roll your dough up like a swiss roll, to form a log.

2. Take your sharp knife and cut the log into about eight equal sized slices.

3. Place these slices into the lined tray and pop into the oven for about 40minutes.

The filling

Spreading the filling onto the dough

Step 1 & 2

Step 3

When your cinnamon rolls have come out of the oven and have cooled for a sufficient amount of time you can begin making the icing:

• 125g icing sugar
• 2tbsp cream cheese
• 15g butter
• about 2tbsp boiled water

1. Place the icing sugar, cream cheese and butter into your third bowl.

2. Add one tablespoon of the boiled water at a time, mixing after each addition.

3. Your icing should be quite runny (pictured below), once you have your desired consistency, you can go ahead and drown your cinnamon rolls in the icing!

icing consistency

The rolls after 40mins in the oven

as you can see I quite literally drowned them in icing

And you've made some classic cinnamon rolls :) This recipe can feed about 8, depending on how many slices you cut the log into.
I hope you enjoy this recipe and thank you for reading this week's post. See you next week!