This isn't the first time I've posted this recipe as I love my homemade cinnamon rolls. This time around, I made the cinnamon rolls in mini-size and added walnuts and shaved coconut - perfect for snacking and yumming. Enjoy!
Easy-to-make Cinnamon Rolls
Ingredients
Dough:
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tbsp white sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 tbsp butter (softened)
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 cup shaved coconut
- 1/3 cup chopped walnuts
(Use as much/little of the filling as you'd like)
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Brush a 9-inch square baking dish with melted butter (or cooking spray).
- Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a large bowl.
- Work in 3 tbsp softened butter into the flour mixture using your hands.
- Beat milk and egg together in another bowl.
- Pour into flour mixture and stir with a rubber spatula until a soft dough forms.
- Turn dough onto a floured work surface and roll dough into two, 1/4th thick rectangles. This allows you to make mini cinnamon rolls. If you'd like large cinnamon rolls, keep as one large rectangle.
- Whisk together the filling ingredients. Sprinkle 1/2-3/4th the cinnamon sugar mixture over the dough (If you don't use it all, you can save the cinnamon sugar mixture in a jar to use for oatmeal and a yogurt topping).
- Roll the dough to form a log and cut into small rolls. Secure edges and place on to a greased baking dish.
- Bake for 22-25 minutes (check around 18 minutes - when cinnamon rolls begin to brown and become firm, remove from oven).
- Remove from oven and enjoy. Don't forget to yum!