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Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Icing

Soft cinnamon rolls filled with cinnamon sugar, baked with cream, and topped with cream cheese icing.

Adapted from Roksana 👩🏻‍🍳🍓.

Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Icing, plated
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Cinnamon Rolls with... 0/0 COOK 1COOK 2
1Warm the milk mixture
2Mix the filling
Combine the softened butter for the filling with the...
3Plate and serve
+ 15 more steps in the app
Cinnamon Rolls with... 0/0 COOK 2COOK 1
1Warm the milk mixture
In a saucepan, put the milk, butter for the dough,...
Heat over low heat until completely melted, do not...
2Mix the filling
3Plate and serve
+ 15 more steps in the app

Ingredients

What you'll need

You'll share: Saucepan, Large bowl, Rolling pin, Knife or dental floss, Baking sheet, Baking paper, Cloth, and Oven.

Each of you needs your own: Cutting board, Chef's knife, and Mixing bowl.

The full plan

Split between two cooks — each step says who's on it.

1. Warm the milk mixture COOK 1

  • In a saucepan, put the milk, butter for the dough, and sugar for the dough
  • Heat over low heat until completely melted, do not bring to a boil

2. Mix the filling COOK 2

  • Combine the softened butter for the filling with the sugar for the filling and cinnamon

3. Heat the oven COOK 2

  • Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 180°C

4. Activate the yeast COOK 1

  • Pour everything into a large bowl and check the temperature, If the milk is warm, but not hot, add the fresh yeast and mix
  • Cover with a cloth and leave for 15–20 minutes

5. Mix the icing COOK 1

  • Mix the cream cheese, cream for the icing, and powdered sugar

6. Mix in the eggs COOK 1

  • When the yeast mixture has risen, add the eggs and mix until combined

7. Knead the dough COOK 1

  • Add the wheat flour mixed with the salt to the mixture, kneading the dough the whole time
  • When smooth and slightly sticky, cover with a cloth and leave to rise for about 1 hour

8. Roll out the dough COOK 2

  • Transfer the risen dough to the work surface and knead gently
  • Roll the smooth, kneaded dough into a rectangle
🤝 Cook 1 hands over the risen dough.

9. Cut and arrange the rolls COOK 1

  • Spread the filling over the dough
  • Roll up the dough to form a log
  • Cut the log with dental floss, thread, or a knife, and arrange the rolls on a baking sheet lined with baking paper, spacing them so that they touch after the second rise
🤝 Cook 2 hands over the filling.

10. Let the rolls rise COOK 1

  • Cover the baking sheet with a cloth and leave the rolls for 20–30 minutes

11. Pour cream between rolls COOK 2

  • After the rolls have risen again, pour 80 g of cream for pouring between the rolls between them
🤝 Cook 1 hands over the rolls rise.

12. Bake the rolls COOK 2

  • Bake for 20 minutes, until golden brown

13. Plate and serve BOTH

  • After taking the rolls out of the oven, ice them while they are still warm, this will make them softer

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