Cinnamon Buns From Heaven Food

CINNABON COPYCAT CINNAMON ROLLS

Steps:

• Mix together warm water, yeast, and 1 teaspoon sugar in a small bowl. Set the mixture aside for 5 minutes for the yeast to activate. It should get foamy.
• In a large bowl, mix milk, remaining 2/3 cup sugar, melted butter, salt, and eggs. Stir well to combine.
• Add yeast mixture and half the flour. Beat until smooth.
• Stir in enough of the remaining flour until the dough is slightly stiff (dough will be sticky).
• Turn the dough out onto a well-floured board and knead for 5 to 10 minutes.
• Place the dough in a well-buttered glass or plastic bowl. Cover and let rise in a warm place, free from drafts, until doubled in bulk, about 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
• When doubled, punch down the dough and let it rest for 5 minutes.
• Roll out the dough on a floured surface into a 15 x 20-inch rectangle.
• Spread ½ cup melted butter on the dough.
• Mix together 1 1/2 cups sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle it over the buttered dough.
• Sprinkle walnuts and raisins on the dough, if desired.
• From the long edge, roll up the dough and pinch the edge to seal.
• Cut the dough into 12 to 15 slices.
• Coat the bottom of a 13-by-9-inch baking pan and an 8-inch square pan with the remaining 1/2 cup melted butter.
• Sprinkle the remaining 1/4 cup sugar in the pans.
• Place the cinnamon roll slices cut-side down close together in pans.
• Let rise in a warm place until dough is doubled in bulk, about 45 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees while the dough is rising.
• Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until rolls are nicely browned.
• Cool rolls slightly.
• In a medium bowl, mix melted butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla.
• Add hot water 1 tablespoon at a time until the icing reaches a spreadable consistency.
• Spread icing over slightly cooled rolls.

CINNABONS - CINNAMON BUNS FROM HEAVEN

Steps:

• To prepare dough: In a cup, combine yeast, warm water and 1 tsp sugar, stir and set aside.
• In a large bowl, mix milk, remaining 2/3 cup sugar, melted butter, salt and eggs; stir well and add yeast mixture.
• Add half the flour and beat until smooth.
• Stir in enough of the remaining flour until dough is slightly stiff (dough will be sticky).
• Turn out onto a well-floured board; knead 5-10 minutes.
• Place in well-buttered glass or plastic bowl, cover and let rise in warm place, free from drafts, until doubled in bulk, about 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
• When doubled, punch down dough and let rest 5 minutes.
• Roll out on floured surface into a 15 x 20 inch rectangle.
• To prepare filling: Spread dough with 1/2 cup melted butter.
• Mix together 1 1/2 cups sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over buttered dough.
• Sprinkle with walnuts and raisins, if desired.
• Roll up jellyroll-fashion and pinch edge together to seal.
• Cut into 12 slices.
• Coat bottom of a 13-by-9-inch baking pan and an 8-inch square pan with remaining 1/2 cup melted butter, then sprinkle with remaining 1/4 cup sugar.
• Place cinnamon roll slices close together in pans.
• Let rise in warm place until dough is doubled in bulk,about 45 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Bake 25 to 30 minutes, or until rolls are nicely browned.
• Cool rolls slightly.
• To prepare glaze: Meanwhile, in medium bowl, mix melted butter, powdered sugar and vanilla; add hot water 1 Tbsp at a time until glaze reaches desired spreading consistency.
• Spread over slightly cooled rolls.
• These will taste most like the originals if you use Makara Cinnamon (available at the Cinnabon Stands) instead of conventional powdered cinnamon from the supermarket.

CINNAMON BUNS

Steps:

• Combine the water and milk in a medium saucepan and warm over low heat until it is about 100 degrees F (but no more than 110 degrees). Remove from heat and sprinkle the yeast over the surface over the liquid. Sprinkle a pinch of the sugar over the top and set aside without stirring, until foamy, about 5 minutes.
• Whisk the butter, egg yolk and vanilla into the yeast mixture.
• Whisk the flour, the sugar, salt and nutmeg in a large bowl. Make a well in the center of the flour and stir in the yeast mixture with a wooden spoon to make a thick and slightly sticky dough. Turn dough onto a floured work surface and knead until soft and elastic, about 6 minutes. Shape into a ball.
• Brush the inside of a large bowl with butter. Put dough in the buttered bowl, turning to coat lightly with butter. Cover bowl with plastic wrap, trace a circle the size of the dough on the plastic, and note the time. Let rise at room temperature until doubled in size, about 1 hour 15 minutes.
• Turn dough out of the bowl and knead briefly to release excess air; reform into a ball and return to the bowl. Lightly butter a large piece of plastic wrap and lay it on the dough. Cover the entire bowl tightly with plastic and proof in the refrigerator for 4 hours or overnight.
• To fill and form the rolls: Butter a 9-by-13-inch baking pan. Whisk the sugar and cinnamon together in a small bowl. Turn prepared dough onto a floured work surface and press, then roll into 10-by-18-inch rectangle, with a long edge facing you. Spread the softened butter evenly over the surface of the dough, leaving about an inch border on the side opposite you. Evenly scatter the cinnamon-sugar over the butter. Starting from the long side facing you, roll the dough up into a tight cylinder. Lightly brush the clean edge of the dough with water. Press the open long edge to the dough to seal the cylinder.
• Slip a long taut piece of string or dental floss under the roll, about 1 1/2 inches from the end. Lift and cross the string ends over the roll, then pull the ends tightly in opposite directions to cut a single roll. Repeat, cutting every 1 1/2 inches, to make 12 rolls. Place the rolls cut-side-down in the prepared pan, leaving 1 inch of space between them. Cover the rolls loosely with plastic wrap. Set aside in a warm place to rise until rolls double in size, about 1 hour 10 minutes.
• Position the rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F.
• Bake buns until golden brown and the tops of the buns spring back when pressed lightly, about 30 minutes. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
• To make the glaze: Sift the confectioners' sugar into a medium bowl. Whisk in the condensed milk, butter, and lemon juice to make a smooth, slightly loose icing. Add the vanilla and cinnamon. Drizzle the icing over warm buns. Serve.

CINNAMON BUNS

Steps:

• Buns: When you are ready to bake, preheat the oven to 170 degrees F. Prepare 2 (9 by 12-inch) rectangular baking dishes by spraying with nonstick oil spray.
• In a mixer fitted with a dough hook, mix together starter, granulated sugar, vegetable oil, salt, water, yeast and flour.
• After mixing the dough for about 2 minutes, remove the dough to a bowl sprayed with nonstick oil.
• Cook's Note: If the dough mix is too loose, add more flour.
• Cover with a towel and let rise until doubled in size. The rising process will take 1 to 4 hours, depending on the altitude and weather at the time and place you are making the buns.
• When doubled, dump the whole pile of dough onto a well-floured surface and with a rolling pin manipulate the dough to make a rectangle about 1/4-inch thick.
• Filling: Melt 2 sticks of butter to where it is creamy and spreadable. Spread the butter onto the dough triangle making sure you spread thoroughly to all corners. Sprinkle brown sugar and then cinnamon over the butter making sure that the whole triangle is covered, corner to corner. Top with chopped pecans and raisins.
• Roll the dough into a tight roll. Cut with a serrated knife into 2-inch long rolls and place into the baking dishes.
• Cook's Note: If using the rectangle baking dish, snuggle the buns together as if they were trying to keep each other very warm. You might want to manipulate the size of the pan to make sure that the buns are very snug in the pan.
• You do not have to cover the rolls, but you need to let them rise in an oven set at 170 degrees F to proof until you see that they are almost but not quite doubled in size, about 40 to 50 minutes. When you see that they are at that point, turn the oven up to 350 degrees F. Bake for 25 minutes until you see that they are truly golden on the top.
• Cook's Note: A good test is when you take them out of the oven and push on the very center of a bun; if it sinks inward easily and feels doughy, they will need 5 to 10 minutes more cooking time.
• Glaze/Icing: In a mixer beat powdered sugar and half-and-half until smooth and without lumps. Take the buns out of the oven and put them on a wire rack. Immediately glaze them with a pastry brush. After glazing all of the buns, go back over and glaze once again.
• Cook's Note: If you desire, you can melt more butter on the top before serving. If warming buns after they are cool, 20 seconds in the microwave revives that incredible hot-out-of-the-oven taste. However, even cold, they are awesome.
• A viewer, who may not be a professional cook, provided this recipe. The Food Network Kitchens chefs have not tested this recipe and therefore, we cannot make representation as to the results.

CINNAMON BUNS

Steps:

• Scald milk and stir in 6 tbsp butter, 6 tbsp sugar and salt.
• Cool to lukewarm.
• Dissolve 1 tsp sugar in warm water.
• Sprinkle yeast over water mix.
• Let stand in a warm place for 10 minutes.
• Stir once this is done.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine lukewarm milk mix and eggs.
• Stir in yeast mix.
• Add four to five cups of flour and mix well.
• With wooden spoon add remaining flour.
• Place dough in a well greased bowl.
• Roll dough over to grease top.
• Cover with a damp cloth and allow to double in size for one hour.
• Punch down and turn out onto floured surface.
• Divide into two, roll each section into rectangles.
• Sprinkle on filling (filling: 1 cup melted butter, 1 1/4 cup sugar and 2 tbsp cinnamon- divided between two rectangles).
• Roll up and slice (a good way to slice pieces is to use a piece of string, place it on the underside of the roll and cross over opposite ends at top, cutting the piece).
• Grease cookie tray with melted butter.
• Place slices in tray, leaving enough space to allow them to expand, but not enough that the filling melts out.
• Place greased waxed paper over slices and allow to double in size again for one hour.
• Bake in 350 degree oven for 35 to 45 minutes.
• Remove immediately from tray.
• If desired, buns can be iced.

OOEY-GOOEY CINNAMON BUNS

Steps:

• In a small bowl, dissolve 1 teaspoon sugar and yeast in warm water. Let stand until creamy, about 10 minutes. Warm the milk in a small saucepan until it bubbles, then remove from heat. Mix in 1/4 cup sugar, 1/4 cup butter and salt; stir until melted. Let cool until lukewarm.
• In a large bowl, combine the yeast mixture, milk mixture, eggs and 1 1/2 cup flour; stir well to combine. Stir in the remaining flour, 1/2 cup at a time, beating well after each addition. When the dough has pulled together, turn it out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic, about 8 minutes.
• Lightly oil a large bowl, place the dough in the bowl and turn to coat with oil. Cover with a damp cloth and let rise in a warm place until doubled in volume, about 1 hour.
• While dough is rising, melt 3/4 cup butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stir in 3/4 cup brown sugar, whisking until smooth. Pour into greased 9x13 inch baking pan. Sprinkle bottom of pan with 1/2 cup pecans; set aside. Melt remaining butter; set aside. Combine remaining 3/4 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup pecans, and cinnamon; set aside.
• Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface, roll into an 18x14 inch rectangle. Brush with 2 tablespoons melted butter, leaving 1/2 inch border uncovered; sprinkle with brown sugar cinnamon mixture. Starting at long side, tightly roll up, pinching seam to seal. Brush with remaining 2 tablespoons butter. With serrated knife, cut into 15 pieces; place cut side down, in prepared pan. Cover and let rise for 1 hour or until doubled in volume. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Bake in preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes, until golden brown. Let cool in pan for 3 minutes, then invert onto serving platter. Scrape remaining filling from the pan onto the rolls.

CINNAMON BUNS FOR THE BREAD MACHINE

Steps:

• Add ingredients according to manufacturer's suggested order and set on dough cycle.
• Turn onto lightly floured board.
• Roll out to a rectangle about 10x18 inches.
• Brush with melted butter; sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar mixture and pecans, if used.
• Starting at long end, carefully roll up; pinch seams together.
• Measure and cut 1-inch slices.
• Place cut side up on a buttered baking sheet.
• Cover with a slightly dampened towel and let rise in a warm place for about 45 minutes to 1 hour.
• Bake at 375° for 15 minutes, or until browned.
• Drizzle with cinnamon bun glaze or thin icing of your choice.
• Icing: Melt butter in a medium saucepan; add hot water and vanilla.
• Remove from heat then stir in confectioners' sugar.
• Add more hot water, 1/2 to 1 teaspoon at a time, until desired consistency.

HONEY CINNAMON BUNS WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• In a medium sized mixing bowl stir together the warm milk, yeast, and teaspoon of honey.
• Let stand for 5 minutes or until foamy.
• Add the egg, 1/4 cup honey, and buttermilk and stir until combined.
• Stir in the salt and flour until the dough forms a ball and pulls away from the edges.
• Place in a greased bowl, flipping dough once to coat both sides, cover with plastic wrap and let stand for 1 hour.
• Place dough in the refrigerater and let rise over night.
• In the morning, in a small bowl, stir together all the filling ingreidents and set aside.
• Remove the dough from the refrigerator and punch down.
• Roll the dough out on a lightly flour surfuse until it is an 1/8-1/4 of an inch thin RECTANGLE.
• Spread the butter cinnamon mixture evenly over the top of it and roll it long ways in a jelly roll form.
• Cut off the ends and then cut into 1 inch slices.
• Place slices slightly apart in a 9"-13" baking dish, cover with plastic wrap, and let rise for about 1-1 1/2 hours.
• Preheat oven to 350F and baking for 10-15 minutes or until lightly golden brown.
• In the meantime, in a small bowl, stir together the cream cheese and the powdered suger then stir in the buttermilk, set aside.
• After baking the cinnamon rolls, remove them from the oven and let them stand for 10 minutes before spreading on the frosting.
• **Youcan make an orange frosting for these buns by changing the buttermilk to 3 tablespoons orange juice and adding 1/2 teaspoon finely grated orange zest.
• Serving Suggestions: Coffee, tea, oatmeal, coke (hehehe).