Cinnamon rolls are one of the most beloved delicacies of many people around the world. First of all, due to the fact that they are quite simple to cook, but the taste is excellent. Moreover, cinnamon rarely causes allergies, which means that most children can be treated to such a delicacy. Fragrant and fresh cinnamon rolls will be a worthy decoration for any festive table or simple breakfast.
Puff pastry
So, before you start cooking, you need to decide which dough you will use. For most recipes, both home-made and purchased dough will do. Today we will look at more than one recipe for cinnamon rolls, so first we will show you how to cook two types of yeast dough - regular and puff.
To make puff pastry, you will need the following ingredients:
- 250 grams of margarine;
- 3 cups flour;
- 1 egg
- cold water (preferably boiled);
- 1/4 teaspoon of lemon juice;
- some salt.
When preparing puff pastry, use a standard 250 ml glass. The process itself takes a lot of time, but is not a big deal. To create a good bun test, proceed as follows:
- Pour 2/3 cups flour into a bowl.
- Cut the margarine into small cubes and add to the flour.
- Stir the mixture. Use a knife to get rid of lumps. The more evenly distributed the dough, the better the finished mixture.
- We make a ball from the resulting dough. Do not knead, but leave.
- We take the second bowl and put 1 cup of flour there. Add lemon juice and salt.
- Break the egg into a separate glass and shake it. Add liquid to 2/3 of the upper level.
- Pour the egg into the flour. We begin to knead, gradually adding another 1 cup of flour. The dough should turn out soft and not cool.
- Roll the finished ball into a rectangle, but not too thin so that the dough does not tear.
- Now you need to put the first blank on top. Place it closer to one of the edges, in the middle relative to the others.
- We wrap it in an envelope. First, a short edge, then two side edges, and then cover everything with the remaining long part.
- Sprinkle the plate with flour and spread the envelope with the edges down. Leave in the refrigerator for 30 minutes, without closing anything.
- Remove the dough from the refrigerator, roll it into a rectangle and fold it again with an envelope. Set to cool for another 30 minutes.
- Repeat the previous paragraph one more time.
Now the dough is ready for use in recipes. If you have prepared it in advance, you can freeze it. To restore it will take 1.5-2 hours.
Butter yeast dough
If you are not a fan of puff pastry, then you can get by with the usual one. Cinnamon rolls will benefit from this. You will need:
- fresh yeast - 70 g;
- glass of water;
- a spoonful of sugar (for dough);
- 2 cups flour (for dough);
- 2 cups of milk;
- 175 grams of margarine;
- 2 cups sugar;
- 3 eggs selected (or 4 pcs. 1st category);
- a bag of vanilla sugar (25 grams);
- a teaspoon of salt;
- flour - 10 glasses;
- 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
To prepare the dough, do the following:
- Dissolve the yeast in warm water.
- Pour in sugar.
- Sift the flour.
- Knead the dough in one direction.
- Put the mixture for 40 minutes in a warm place and cover with a towel.
Having prepared all the products and dough, you can start preparing the dough itself:
- We take a larger pan and pour milk and sugar there. Add margarine, vanilla sugar and salt. Pour this mixture into a dough.
- Gradually stirring, add the sifted flour. Stir strictly in one direction until a homogeneous, elastic, dense mass is formed.
- We spread it on the table and finally knead.
- We shift into a large saucepan, cover with a towel and set in a warm place for two hours.
- We wait until the dough rises, and begin to cook.
This finished the preparation of the ingredients. Further, everything will depend solely on your imagination. Cinnamon rolls from yeast dough prepared in this way will be lush and sweet. If necessary, you can reduce the proportion of sugar in the recipe.
The trick with the oven
Before you start cooking cinnamon rolls, be sure to preheat the oven to 200 degrees. If your stove has a transparent wall and you can determine the readiness without opening it, then after loading the rolls inside, reduce the temperature to 180 degrees and bake them for the time specified in the recipe.
If your oven is too dirty or just has too dark glass and you need to open it to check the readiness of the treat, then after each door opening add about 2 minutes to the total baking time. This is necessary because the temperature inside drops too quickly, and it will take time to recover.
First recipe
For this recipe, it is best to use the second type of test. As a result, you will have to get typical “store” cinnamon rolls:
- Roll the resulting piece of dough into one large "sausage".
- Cut it into pieces of 2x4x8 centimeters (approximate sizes).
- Each of them must also be rolled into a "sausage", and then flattened.
- Sprinkle cinnamon on the long cakes and roll them back into sausages.
- Now fold these tubes in a spiral into "snails."
- Place all the blanks on a baking sheet or in a mold, leaving a little space between them.
- Bake in the oven for 15 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
If you use the dough bought at the store, then this will be the simplest recipe for cinnamon rolls. Next, we will consider several more options for the preparation of this treat.
Second option
Next is another recipe for cinnamon rolls from yeast dough (not puff). In this case, we will prepare a treat using not only the specified component for the filling. What is required?
- 20 grams of cinnamon;
- 30 grams of cocoa powder;
- 50 grams of sugar;
- 15 grams of vanilla;
- 20 grams of butter.
Prepare the mixture by mixing all these components except the oil and taste. If something is missing, then add. Then you can start cooking.
- Roll the dough into a rectangular shape with a thickness of 1-1.5 centimeters. Try to make a figure with an aspect ratio of about 1 to 10.
- Melt the butter, cool and grease the dough.
- Roll the dough into a roll. Cut it into pieces with a thickness of 2-3 centimeters.
- Put the “raw” buns on a baking sheet and let them shape for 20 minutes.
- Bake in the oven at about 190 degrees for half an hour. But do not forget to check their readiness.
Thus, you can cook delicious buns with the addition of various flavorful components, not just cinnamon.
Syrup
Having prepared cinnamon rolls and sugar, it is not necessary to stop there. In addition to the main components, you can do a lot more. For example, pour them with sugar syrup. For him you will need to do the following:
- Take a small bowl and pour 100 grams of sugar into it.
- Drop a teaspoon of water and mix until smooth. If necessary, add another drop of liquid.
- After the mixture is formed, heat it until caramel is obtained.
- Pour in another 200 milliliters of warm water.
- Shuffle.
That's all. Your syrup is ready. Now they can soak the finished buns from both recipes presented above.
Cream and decoration
But that's not all. If you want to get cinnamon rolls, photos of which are not ashamed to publish in the magazine, you can also prepare a cream for them. For him you need:
- 100 grams of sour cream and cottage cheese;
- 50 grams of powdered sugar.
You just need to beat these ingredients together and pour the resulting mixture into the rolls. You can add a little more sour cream to make the cream more liquid.
After you pour the buns, the final touch remains. They must be sprinkled with any of the following:
- chocolate
- walnut;
- colored sprinkles.
After that, they can be served to the table.
Buns in 20 minutes
You do not have extra time and energy? Children ask to cook something tasty? The following recipe from a professional chef allows you to prepare treats for the whole family with almost no particular effort. You will need:
- a metal mold for making muffins and puddings with a non-stick coating (but you can get by with ordinary silicone);
- 1 lemon / orange / grapefruit (or flavor);
- 100 ml of milk (whipped cream is better 35%);
- sugar to taste;
- 1 egg
- 20 grams of cinnamon;
- puff pastry.
If you have time, you can use the puff pastry recipe written above. Otherwise, buy frozen yeast. You can quickly defrost it with a regular hair dryer. Turn it on at maximum power and warm the dough along, gradually unrolling on the board. Now you can start cooking:
- Take a bowl and mix the egg, milk (cream), zest and sugar in it. It will be a cream. Put it in the refrigerator.
- Put the dough on a board and roll it into a rectangle. When using frozen, you can only slightly make its initial shape thinner. The short side should be about 15 cm long.
- Sprinkle cinnamon on both sides of the dough.
- Cut the dough along the long side.
- Roll the resulting thin rectangles into rolls.
- Cut the rolls into pieces about 5 centimeters long. On average, you get about 12 buns from 500 grams of dough, but maybe less.
- Put the “barrels” of dough on the end and crush it with your palm. The spiral cinnamon pattern should look right at you.
- Roll the cakes using a rolling pin.
- Put the dough circles in the baking dish. Using a teaspoon, press them to the very corners and walls.
- Place the billet in the oven for 5 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
- When the buns “grab” a little and swell, remove the mold from the oven.
- Using a spoon, gently rinse the dough.
- In the resulting "wells" fill the cream to the brim.
- Place in the oven and bake rolls until cooked. This will take about 10-15 minutes.
Despite the fact that in this recipe there are much more points than in the previous ones, all actions are performed almost instantly. Ready buns can also be decorated with syrup or chocolate.
Conclusion
Today we reviewed recipes with photos of cinnamon rolls. As you can see, there is nothing complicated in their preparation, especially if you use dough bought in a store. Using the above tips, even the most inexperienced housewife will be able to please loved ones with refreshments worthy of serving in the best cafes of the city.