Homemade Apple Cinnamon Rolls recipe with white glazing. Easy dessert filled with sliced sweet apple, and brown sugar for a breakfast snack.
Homemade Apple Cinnamon Rolls
Bake these easy tasty homemade apple cinnamon rolls for a breakfast or brunch. They work well for a dessert as well. An Oven bake recipe idea to create with sweet apples of your choice. Use granny smith green apples or mix up both types of apples. The brown sugar will give you a more caramalized taste with the cinnamon which works well with the apples. Everybody will love them.
What four apples are best used for baking?
Baking apples are the best to use for pies, rolls and tarts and any other baking treats. You will need the apples to be firm and to hold themselves during the cooking process and not turn to mush. Some names of apples are, gala, granny smith, honey gold, fuji, Haralson and a few more.
Should you peel apples before baking?
To peel or not to peel the apples. That is the question, and if you need the color of the skin to make a statement when baking apples, such as rose apples, then leave the skin on. But peeled apples will give your pies a soft and delicate filling without any hard skin bits. Although some nutrition could be lost when peeled. It is really what you would prefer.
Should I soften my apples or leave them uncooked for apple pie?
There are a few ways you could use the apples for baking. Firstly it is not necessary to cook the apple pieces before making an apple pie. Chop them into small pieces and add sugar and cinnamon or flour with them to bake in your pastry. You could par cook them by placing the cut apples in boiling water and leave to stand for 10 minutes. Others leave them in lemon water, or drain them to release any water content in the apples.
Why are my cinnamon rolls not fluffy?
You cinnamon rolls could end up not been fluffy because you did not let the dough rise enough. The weather and humidity can also play a roll in the rising of the dough.
Ingredients
For the Dough
- Flour
- brown Sugar
- Salt
- Milk and water
- Egg
- butter (unsalted)
- dry Yeast
- For the filling brown sugar, cinnamon and apples
For the amounts of the ingredients as well as the filling and the white glaze ingredients, as well as the full instructions, see the recipe attached.
This recipe is downloadable or printable, even comes with a online cook mode that lets you work online without the recipe going blank. Amazing hey.
flour, eggs, butter, brown sugar, yeast, salt
sweet red baking apples.
brown sugar and cinnamon
How To
Firstly make the dough for the rolls’
Whisk the flour, sugar, salt and the yeast together in a large bowl and set aside. Combine the wet ingredients such as milk, water and the melted butter together in a pot. Warm the mixture up and pour into the dry ingredients. Add the egg and mix the mixture with your mixer until a dough is formed. On a lightly floured surface using your floured hands, knead the dough for about 3 minutes. Place the dough in a greased bowl and cover and let rest for about 10 minutes.
Adding the fillings;
Then roll the dough after the 10 minutes in a rectangle. Spread the softened butter on top. Then sprinkle over the butter the mixture of cinnamon and sugar. Layer the apple slices over the sugar and cinnamon evenly.
Roll up the dough tightly to make a log of about 14 inch long.
Cut into about 12 even rolls or what you can manage. Arrange these rolls in a lightly greased casserole dish or pan.
Rise;
Lightly cover the rolls with cling wrap and allow to rise in a warm draft free environment for 60 – 90 min
Bake the rolls;
After the rolls have doubled in size bake them in a preheated oven of 190 Deg. C (375 Deg. F).
Bake for about 25 – 28 minutes until lightly brown and done. (if the rolls are browning quickly cover with aluminum foil to prevent it)
While these are baking make the icing as per recipe below.
Delicious sweet apple cinnamon rolls for tea as a dessert. The aroma of these crispy dough rolls when baked in the oven, is amazing.
These apple cinnamon rolls will also make a tasty breakfast or brunch for family get togethers on weekends. Also best for special occasions for love ones.
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PrintHomemade Apple Cinnamon Rolls
Homemade Apple Cinnamon Rolls recipe with white glazing. Easy dessert filled with sliced sweet apple, and brown sugar for a breakfast snack.
- Prep Time: 1 hr 40 min
- Cook Time: 25 min
- Total Time: 2 hr 5 min
- Yield: 12 1x
- Category: Desserts, appetizer, snack
- Method: Oven Baking
Ingredients
For the Rolls
- 2 .3/4 Cups of Flour
- 1/-4 Cup of brown Sugar
- 1/2 Teaspoon of Salt
- 1/2 Cup of Milk
- 1/4 Cup of Water
- 1 large Egg
- 3 Tablespoons of butter (unsalted)
- 1 1/4 Teaspoons of dry Yeast
For the Filling
- 3 Tablespoons of melted or soft butter
- 1Tablespoon of cinnamon
- 1/4 Cup of brown sugar
- 2 cups of sliced or chopped sweet apples
For the Icing
- 1 Cup of fine white sugar
- 1/2 Teaspoon of vanilla essence
- 2 – 3 Tablespoons of milk or strong coffee
Instructions
Dough
- Whisk the flour, sugar, salt and the yeast together in a large bowl and set aside.
- Combine the wet ingredients such as milk, water and the melted butter together in a pot. Warm the mixture up and pour into the dry ingredients. Add the egg and mix the mixture with your mixer until a dough is formed.
- On a lightly floured surface using your floured hands, knead the dough for about 3 minutes. Place the dough in a greased bowl and cover and let rest for about 10 minutes.
Filling
- Then roll the dough after the 10 minutes in a rectangle.
- Spread the softened butter on top. Then sprinkle over the butter the mixture of cinnamon and sugar. Layer the apple slices over the sugar and cinnamon evenly.
- Roll up the dough tightly to make a log of about 14 inch long.
- Cut into about 12 even rolls or what you can manage. Arrange these rolls in a lightly greased casserole dish or pan. Use some wax proof parchment paper as well as the sugar and the cinnamon will make these rolls stick to the bottom of the pan. Even if you have greased the pan first.
Rise
Lightly cover the rolls with cling wrap and allow to rise in a warm draft free environment for 60 – 90 min
Bake the rolls
- After the rolls have doubled in size bake them in a preheated oven of 190 Deg. C (375 Deg. F).
- Bake for about 25 – 28 minutes until lightly brown and done. (if the rolls are browning quickly cover with aluminum foil to prevent it)
- While these are baking make the icing as below.
Make the icing
- Whisk the white fine sugar and vanilla with the milk/coffee. Drizzle of the warm rolls as soon as they come out of the oven.
- For the leftover rolls you can cover them tightly and store at room temperature for up to 3 days or place in the refrigerator for 5 days.
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