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Homemade Cinnabon Recipe

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Homemade Cinnabon Recipe
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Does your family love Cinnabon as much as we do? It’s a treat that we don’t often get, since we live in a small town 2 hours away from the nearest Cinnabon shop. Fortunately, Cinnabon has a line of home products that you can enjoy anywhere, including a Cinnabon Baking Kit which you can use to create your own copycat Cinnabon rolls at home! I love to bake, so I whipped up a double batch to take to a couple of parties earlier this month – and let me tell you what, if you want to be a hit at a party, bring a plate of homemade Cinnabon! Here’s how to make your own:

Homemade Cinnabon Rolls

Ingredients:

1 Cinnabon Baking Kit – includes dough mix, cinnamon & sugar filling, yeast and frosting
1 stick plus 1/4 C butter
1 cup warm milk
1 egg
Flour for dusting

Directions:

In a stand mixer, add the Cinnabon Dough Mix, yeast packet, and egg. Add 1/4 C of butter to a small bowl, melt in the microwave, then pour into the dough mixture. Warm the milk in the microwave and then add to the other ingredients. Using the dough hook attachment, mix on low for 2 minutes until the dough comes together. Increase speed to medium low and continue mixing for an additional 3 to 5 minutes until a soft, slightly sticky dough ball has formed. (If you don’t have a stand mixer, you can mix and knead by hand instead.)

Dust the counter with flour, and roll the dough ball out into a 16″ x 16″ square, dusting with flour as needed.

Spread the stick of softened butter over the dough using a spatula, then top with the Cinnabon Cinnamon Sugar Filling, patting gently to adhere filling to butter as needed.

Roll the dough up lengthwise into a 16″ log and cut into eight 2″ pieces. Place rolls into a greased 13″ x 9″ baking pan, leaving 1/2″ of space between each roll. Cover rolls loosely and allow to rise in a warm spot for 45-60 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and bake rolls for 35 to 40 minutes or until tops of rolls turn golden brown and the filling bubbles. Note: My rolls cooked way faster than 35 minutes, so I’d advise checking them every 5 minutes so that they do not burn.

Place rolls onto a wire rack to cool and frost immediately. Cool for 5-10 minutes prior to serving. Makes 8 rolls.

Tasty Treat Copycat #Recipe Hardee’s Cinnamon Raisin Biscuits

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hardees cinnamon roll

By Summer

In my Kitchen Aid stand mixer with the dough blade I combines (in order) egg, almond extract, salt, honey, baking powder, and ¼ buttermilk. Add a cup of flour at a time alternating with buttermilk ¼ cup at a time: 1 cup APF, ¼ cup buttermilk, 1 cup WWF, ¼ cup buttermilk, 1 cup APF, ¼ cup buttermilk, 1 cup WWF. Cut in butter. IMG_1632

3. Turn dough out onto floured surface. Roll out (coat in butter if you wish, but I didn’t) and sprinkle half with cinnamon-sugar. Spread raisins onto cinnamon-sugar dough. Fold plain dough over onto the cinnamon-sugar-raisin coated dough. Cut into desired circle size (mine were mini and about 1” in diameter). With remaining dough roll into balls (or pancake or hand formed biscuit) and cook with form-cut biscuits. IMG_1631

4. Bake for 8 minutes or until golden brown. Allow to cool while you clean your stand mixer equipment and you make the frosting. IMG_1637

5. In your clean stand mixer bowl combine all frosting ingredients with whisk attachment. When smooth check to be sure biscuits are cool and pour onto.

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Copycat Recipe Hardee’s Cinnamon Raisin Biscuits

Ingredients:

DOUGH
1 egg
1 Tablespoon almond extract
½ teaspoon salt
¼ cup honey
1 Tablespoon baking powder
½ cup butter, room temperature
2 cups all-purpose flour, divided
2 cups whole wheat flour, divided
1 cup buttermilk, divided

FILLING
If you don’t have a cinnamon-sugar shaker (combine 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon & ¼ cup sugar)
1/3 cup raisins

FROSTING
3 cups powdered sugar
1 Tablespoon vanilla
¼ cup milk
¼ cup butter, melted

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350oF.

2. In my Kitchen Aid stand mixer with the dough blade I combines (in order) egg, almond extract, salt, honey, baking powder, and ¼ buttermilk. Add a cup of flour at a time alternating with buttermilk ¼ cup at a time: 1 cup APF, ¼ cup buttermilk, 1 cup WWF, ¼ cup buttermilk, 1 cup APF, ¼ cup buttermilk, 1 cup WWF. Cut in butter.

3. Turn dough out onto floured surface. Roll out (coat in butter if you wish, but I didn’t) and sprinkle half with cinnamon-sugar. Spread raisins onto cinnamon-sugar dough. Fold plain dough over onto the cinnamon-sugar-raisin coated dough. Cut into desired circle size (mine were mini and about 1” in diameter). With remaining dough roll into balls (or pancake or hand formed biscuit) and cook with form-cut biscuits.

4. Bake for 8 minutes or until golden brown. Allow to cool while you clean your stand mixer equipment and you make the frosting.

5. In your clean stand mixer bowl combine all frosting ingredients with whisk attachment. When smooth check to be sure biscuits are cool and pour onto.

About Summer:

Summer is very active in our Local MOMS Club chapter, she is the mother of two adorable active boys, and is always thinking of ways to help others. She is a friend, a wife, and always busy as all mommies are. She is very active on Facebook, addicted to Geocaching and very interested in organic and green living while cooking up a storm.

Tasty Treat By Summer: Copycat Hostess to Homemade Apple Fruit Pie Recipe

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By Summer

Apple Fruit Pie

I didn’t want to make anything this week … I was lazy and then I started thinking and then I started doing and I made mini imitation Hostess Fruit Pies (Thank you ClearanceCuisine.com for such a great photo of a Hostess Pie).

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I use to eat these as child. Of course they bragged about being filled with real fruit, however I liked the lemon ones best and I’m sure IF there was real fruit in the lemon ones it was very little!

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And here is the process to make the Apple Fruit Pie in photos

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Apple Fruit Pie Recipe

Ingredients:

Pie Crust
½ cup local Honey Yogurt
1 egg
½ cup butter, softened
1 tablespoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
¼ teaspoon clove
½ teaspoon ginger
½ cup whole wheat flour
1 ½ cups AP flour

Pie Filling
6 apples, peeled and chop/mince
½ cup brown sugar
1 Tablespoon almond extract

 

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350oF.

2. Mix together crust ingredients. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface. Roll out to 1/8 to 1/16 inch thickness. Cut out circles. Use all the dough.

3. Combine all the filling ingredients. Cook on the stove top in a sauté pan over medium heat for about 5 minutes. Allow to cool for 2 minutes then strain excess juices. Spoon about 1 heaping Tablespoon of apples onto dough circles.

4. Fold circles in half (you may have to stretch them a bit to close, dough should allow for that). Press edges firmly together with a fork. Place on to cookie sheets for baking (they can be close to one another as these won’t rise).

5. Baking in preheated oven for 12 minutes or dough is browned.

6. Allow to cool before eating as insides will be hot!

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About Summer:

Summer is very active in our Local MOMS Club chapter, she is the mother of two adorable active boys, and is always thinking of ways to help others. She is a friend, a wife, and always busy as all mommies are. She is very active on Facebook, addicted to Geocaching and very interested in organic and green living while cooking up a storm.