How to make simple homemade Cinnamon Rolls

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This is a recipe is simple and tasty. It involves a slight change in the 2 ingredient Biscuit recipe and my family absolutely loves these with a cup of coffee in the morning.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees

Dough

2 cups self rising flour

2 cups heavy whipping cream

1/4 cup of granulated sugar

1 tablespoon of Cinnamon

Filling

1 stick softened butter

1/4 cup granulated sugar

1 tablespoon Cinnamon

Glaze (Optional)

If you like to have glaze/icing on your rolls, you can use your choice of frosting, or make this simple glaze. 

1 cup confectioners sugar mixed with 1 teaspoon of Vanilla extract and a few tablespoons of milk.

You can repeat this mixture to get the amount you want, the glaze should look like white school glue when at the right consistency. Sorry, that's the best visual reference I can give you, lol.

Instructions:

Step 1

Combine dry ingredients first and mix well. Add in heavy whipping cream until it forms into dough. Once dough is formed, spread out on your rolling surface a large piece of cling wrap. Dust lightly with flour and place dough on clingwrap. Dust top of dough with additional flour and add a second piece of cling wrap over the dough and roll out to about 1/2 to 1 inch thick. This makes clean up easier. Remove cling wrap from the top surface of the dough. 

Step 2

Spread softened butter over the entire top surface of the dough and sprinkle sugar, and cinnamon in an even layer over the top. Starting with the short end of the dough lift up on the bottom cling wrap and begin rolling the dough into a log. It should look somewhat like a pinwheel on the ends where the cinnamon and sugar was placed on the surface of the dough.

*At this point, you can roll your cinnamon log in the cling wrap and place in the refrigerator if you want to bake later. It can be stored this way over night.

Step 3

Once your log is formed, with a sharp pastry cutter cut into 1/2 to 1 inch thick pinwheels and place on a baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven at 400 degrees. Check cinnamon rolls at 10 minutes to account for different baking times each over is prone to. It is done when tooth pick in dough comes out clean.

It shouldn't take longer than 15 minutes. Trust your nose, if it smells done, it probably is.

Side note:

You can add chopped nuts to the top and filling of this recipe and it will be even better!