Quick & Easy Homemade Cinnamon Rolls

Quick & Easy Cinnamon Rolls
Ingredients:

Rolls

• 2 & 3/4 cups of all purpose flour
• 3 Tablespoons granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 package (equivalent of 2 and 1/4 tsp) dry active yeast
• 1/4 cup whole milk 
• 1/2 water
• 3 Tablespoons of butter
• 1 large egg

Filling

• 3 Tablespoons softened butter
• 1 and 1/2 Tablespoons of ground cinnamon 
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar

Glaze

• 1 and 1/2 cup of powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 
• 2 Tablespoons of whole milk

One batch makes about 12 cinnamon rolls

Directions:

Pre-heat oven to 200 degrees F.

Save 1/2 cup of the flour and set aside for later. Mix together the flour, yeast, sugar and salt in a large bowl until evenly incorporated.

Place the milk, water and butter in a microwave safe bowl and heat until butter is melted and the mixture is hot to touch. 

Sir the butter mixture and the flour mixture together and add in the egg. Use enough of the saved flour to make the dough soft & elastic (I only used half of the saved flour). You will know that the dough is ready when it has an elastic consistency and retracts from the bowl. 

Lightly flour your surface and knead the dough for about eight minuets. Roll into a ball. Lightly grease a bowl with cooking spray and let the dough sit in it for about 10minuets. 

Roll out the dough into a 14 X 8inch rectangle. Spread the softened butter onto the dough. Mix the sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle it all over the dough.

Roll the dough into a tight log. Cut even pieces. Place pieces into lightly greased 9in. round pans. I used two pans & I would recommend only putting six rolls in each, because they expand a lot while rising and baking.
(Ignore the lines on the dough in my picture..those are the marks I used to measure my pieces before i cut it)

Turn off the pre-heated oven. Lightly cover the top of the pan with aluminum foil and place in oven for 60mins. to let the dough rise. The dough should double in size. 

Next, heat oven to 375 degrees and bake for 15min. uncovered and 10min. covered with foil (this is so the top doesn't burn while the bottom of the dough finishes baking). 

Mix the glaze ingredients together and pour over warm cinnamon rolls. Serve immediately! They taste best when warm & fresh out of the oven.

Enjoy!

*If you plan on making the dough ahead of time and baking it later: after the dough rises keep it at room temperature until you are ready to bake it. Do not refrigerate the dough & do not freeze the dough.