Cinnamon Buns – For Using Up Leftover Cream Cheese Frosting

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We had a crazy amount of cream cheese frosting to use up from a carrot cake, and didn’t really fancy another cake so tried this out. It worked a treat!

Ingredients

Dough

  • 3 cups plain flour
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 2 tsp instant yeast
  • 3 tbsp leftover cream cheese frosting, butter cream or butter – mine was a cream cheese and butter frosting with a touch of vanilla
  • 2 tbsp ground cinnamon

Topping

  • 200g leftover cream cheese frosting – I’d say this is the minimum, I had about 300g
  • 4 tsp ground cinnamon – vary to suit

Instructions

  1. In a large bowl, mix the flour, yeast, water and cream cheese frosting
  2. Bring together to form a dough – add water and flour by 1tbsp increments if it looks to dry or wet
  3. Add ground cinnamon
  4. Knead for 5 to 10 minutes
  5. Move to a lightly oiled bowl or tupperware and cover – I often use a pan with lid
  6. Leave to rise for 1 hour until double in size
  7. Knock back and shape into rolls I made 14 from this dough
  8. Place the rolls on a baking sheet. I often like to arrange six rolls around one central to make a pretty flower shape. For this, leave a few mm gap around the central one and between the metals for the rolls to rise into
  9. Leave to rise for around 30 minutes
  10. Turn the over to 190C
  11. Once hot, place rolls in over
  12. They’ll take 20-25 minutes to bake, and may need rotating half way through
  13. Remove from oven and leave to cool for 5 minutes
  14. In the meantime, beat the cinnamon into the remaining cream cheese frosting
  15. Using a pastry brush or clean hands, brush a small amount of the cinnamon frosting all over the rolls (not the bottoms). It will melt and leave a stick effect
  16. One by one dollop a large teaspoon of the cream cheese frosting onto the top of each roll and swirl into a pattern. The rolls should be warm enough to make the frosting supple but not super melty so it doesn’t hold its shape
  17. Serve with any extra leftover frosting