Cookie Butter Cinnamon Rolls | Julie Blanner
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Make these unbelievable cookie butter cinnamon rolls! Mix your favourite cinnamon roll taste with everybody’s favourite spiced cookie taste.
Shut your eyes and picture the decadence of two of your favourite candy treats, actually rolled into one.
Cookie butter is a deal with in and of itself, after all. However once we mixed it with our cinnamon roll dough, it took issues to an entire new degree.

Drenched in a cookie butter icing, these cinnamon rolls are actually one thing particular.
How do I do know? Nicely, I’m unsure what qualifies an individual as a cinnamon roll skilled – however I do have an obsession that goes again a few years. A long time, actually.
Okay, tremendous… my whole life has been devoted to perfecting the enjoyment of cinnamon rolls. We actually love them on this home! If you happen to do, too, you’re actually in for a deal with as we speak.
Like my apple cinnamon rolls and pumpkin cinnamon rolls, these are a novel, contemporary spin on my traditional unique cinnamon roll recipe. You may bake them in a cast iron skillet or a little bit rustic attraction, or just use your favourite baking dish.
Regardless of the way you bake them, this recipe is bound to be the star of the present. Whether or not it’s Christmas brunch or only a cozy weekend morning with your loved ones, I simply know you’re going to like them.

Cookie Butter Cinnamon Rolls
These selfmade cookie butter cinnamon rolls are surprisingly straightforward to make – however oh-so-special for the vacations and past.
Why You’ll Love this Recipe

Elements and Substitutions
For the Rolls
- Milk – Full fats is at all times greatest for decadent rolls, however no matter you’ve gotten available will work.
- Butter – Unsalted. If utilizing salted butter, remove the added salt within the dough.
- All-Goal Flour – No sifting is required, however observe that you simply’ll divide the flour into two elements on this recipe.
- White Granulated Sugar – For sweetening the dough.
- Salt – To steadiness all of the sweetness of those rolls.
- Lively Fast Rise Yeast – Want ideas baking with yeast? Don’t skip my information! It’s stuffed with can’t-miss ideas and methods!
- Egg – Use a big dimension egg.

For the Filling
- Butter – Unsalted, melted.
- Cookie Butter – We just like the Lotus model Biscoff, however you should use no matter you’d like!
- Brown Sugar – Packed. You should use gentle or darkish brown sugar right here.
Heavy Cream – That is the key of my well-known cinnamon rolls. It’s really used to drench the rolls earlier than baking, not technically as a part of the filling.

For the Icing
- Unsalted Butter – Softened
- Cookie Butter – Melted
- Powdered Sugar – Study methods to make powdered sugar right here.
- Heavy Whipping Cream – It’s also possible to sub with milk.

Variations
Wish to skip the yeast? Strive my cinnamon rolls made with crescent rolls and observe the steps on this recipe for the cookie butter filling and icing.


Find out how to Make
An summary, go to the printable recipe card for full elements and directions.
- In a saucepan, soften milk and butter. Take away from warmth.
- In a mixing bowl, mix flour (divided), sugar, salt, yeast and milk combination as directed. Add egg.
- Knead whereas including within the remaining flour, till the dough kinds a ball. Let dough relaxation for 10 minutes. Preheat oven.
- On a floured floor, roll out dough. Unfold melted butter, cookie butter and brown sugar on high.
- Roll right into a log. Minimize into 10 evenly sliced strips and place in a baking dish.
- Flip oven off. Cowl rolls and permit to rise contained in the warmed oven as directed. Take away from oven, preheat once more. Cowl rolls in heavy cream. Bake till barely golden.
- In a medium mixing bowl, whisk icing elements collectively till clean. Drizzle over rolls.


Ideas
- A stand mixer is the best option to make this dough, however you may also knead by hand. Kneading by hand takes roughly 10-12 minutes and in a mixer, you’ll want about eight minutes.
- If you would like your icing to be thinner, simply add a little bit extra cream.
- This recipe makes 10 bigger rolls, so that they want roughly 25 minutes for the dough to rise in warmed oven. Smaller rolls received’t want fairly as a lot time to rise, they usually’ll want much less time to bake, as properly!

Make Forward (Refrigeration Ideas)
- These cookie butter cinnamon rolls are nice to make forward. Make them a day earlier than serving, (don’t add cream into the baking dish but). Cowl the rolls tightly (unbaked) and refrigerate in a single day.
- The following morning if you’re able to bake, merely pour the cream over them and bake in your pre-heated oven, following the steps as directed within the printable recipe card.
- To reheat them after they’ve been baked and iced, place a roll individually within the microwave for 20 seconds, or in your baking dish in a preheated oven at 350 levels F for 5 minutes.

Make Forward (Freezer Ideas)
- Freeze these cookie butter cinnamon rolls after making (however previous to baking). Wrapped tightly, these might be saved within the freezer for as much as two weeks. If saved for longer, a few of your yeast might die off, which leads to much less fluffy rolls
- To make your rolls forward and freeze them earlier than baking, simply take them out of the freezer the night time earlier than you wish to get pleasure from them.
- Permit them thaw in a single day within the fridge. The following morning, set the pan out to permit them to rise (till they’ve principally doubled in quantity), then bake as directed within the recipe card.

Find out how to Retailer
- Room Temperature – Retailer these cookie butter cinnamon rolls at room temperature in an hermetic container as much as two days.
- Refrigerate – Retailer within the fridge in an hermetic container as much as 4-5 days.
- Freeze – You may freeze cinnamon rolls (after baking), by storing in an hermetic container lined in plastic wrap. This helps to stop freezer odor, and they are often safely saved for as much as three months.

Dietary Concerns
- Vegetarian
- Nut Free – Make sure that your cookie butter is nut free!
- For gluten free rolls, use a 1 to 1 gluten free flour on this recipe.

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Rolls
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In a saucepan over medium warmth, add milk and butter. Stir till melted and take away from warmth.
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In a mixing bowl, mix 2¼ cups flour (holding remaining cup again), sugar, salt. Add yeast and lukewarm milk combination, and mix. Add egg till simply mixed.
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Utilizing the dough hook attachment in your mixer (or palms), knead whereas progressively including within the remaining 1 cup of flour, till the dough kinds a ball and pulls away from the sides of the bowl.
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Let dough relaxation for 10 minutes. Preheat oven to 350℉.
Fill
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On a floured floor, roll out dough right into a rectangle. Unfold melted butter, cookie butter and brown sugar on high. Utilizing a knife or pizza cutter, reduce 10 strips. Roll and place in a baking dish or forged iron skillet.
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Flip oven off. Cowl rolls with a humid towel and permit to rise for 25 minutes contained in the warmed oven. Take away from oven, preheat once more to 350℉. Cowl rolls in ¼ cup heavy cream. Bake 15-20 minutes, or till barely golden.
Icing
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In a medium mixing bowl, whisk collectively to mix butter, cookie butter, powdered sugar and heavy cream till clean. Drizzle over rolls.
- A stand mixer is the best option to make this dough, however you may also knead by hand. Kneading by hand takes roughly 10-12 minutes and in a mixer, you’ll want about eight minutes.
- If you would like your icing to be thinner, simply add a little bit extra cream.
- This recipe makes 10 bigger rolls, so that they want roughly 25 minutes for the dough to rise in warmed oven. Smaller rolls received’t want fairly as a lot time to rise, they usually’ll want much less time to bake, as properly!
Energy: 589kcal | Carbohydrates: 68g | Protein: 8g | Fats: 32g | Saturated Fats: 17g | Polyunsaturated Fats: 1g | Monounsaturated Fats: 6g | Trans Fats: 1g | Ldl cholesterol: 77mg | Sodium: 138mg | Potassium: 109mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 31g | Vitamin A: 776IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 49mg | Iron: 2mg
Estimated vitamin info is offered as a courtesy and isn’t assured.