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Delicious, warm, gooey cinnamon rolls in just an hour. These quick one hour cinnamon rolls are fast and easy to make!!
Why You’ll Love This Recipe!
These super quick one hour cinnamon rolls are ready to go in the oven in just one hour! And the results are amazingly good!!
I love homemade cinnamon rolls, especially for breakfast, but I don’t love how long they take to make. Who wants to get up 2-3 hours early to have hot, fresh cinnamon rolls in the morning?
I decided to see if I could use my basic cinnamon roll recipe and tweak it to get homemade cinnamon rolls in an hour. I did and they were just as delicious as when I spend 2-3 hours making them!
Ingredients Needed
- Buttermilk
- Sugar, granulated sugar, brown sugar and powdered sugar
- Butter
- Active Dry Yeast
- Salt
- Eggs
- Bread Flour
- Ground Cinnamon
- Milk or Cream
How to Make Quick One Hour Cinnamon Rolls
- Mix together your warm water, buttermilk, sugar, melted butter and yeast. Allow to sit for 10-15 minutes or until bubbly and foamy.
- Add yeast mixture to your dry ingredients and eggs.
- Mix dough for 10 minutes using the bread hook on your stand mixer or by hand.
- Cover dough and allow to rest for 10 minutes.
- Combine sugar, brown sugar, butter and cinnamon. Mix together until it resembles wet sand.
- Roll out dough on floured work service with a rolling pin. Roll into a 12 x 16 inch triangle.
- Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar mixture.
- Roll, starting at long edge. Place seam on bottom.
- Cut cinnamon roll dough into 12 large rolls using a piece of unflavored dental floss or a serrated knife.
- Place the rolls on a prepared cookie sheet.
- Allow rolls to rise for 15 minutes. They won’t rise much, but don’t worry they will in the oven.
- Bake at 400 degrees F for 12-15 minutes.
- Combine softened butter, vanilla, powdered sugar and enough milk to make it the right consistency for frosting.
- Remove rolls from oven and frost.
Tips from Leigh Anne
- Gather your ingredients together before hand so everything is ready when you need it.
- I used bread flour, but regular all purpose flour works fine too.
- If you are new to working with yeast, check out all my tips on how to proof yeast.
- To cut my cinnamon roll dough easily and cleanly, I use unflavored dental floss.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I freeze cinnamon rolls?
Place the rolls, individually, on a baking sheet in the freezer and flash freeze. Wrap each roll individually in plastic wrap and a layer of aluminum foil to protect against freezer burn. When you are ready to enjoy one, remove from the freezer and unwrap from foil and plastic. Let it thaw at room temperature and them rewarm briefly in the microwave (too long and it will get soggy) or wrap in foil and reheat in oven after it has thawed at 300 degrees F.
What type of yeast should I use?
For this recipe I use dry active yeast, not rapid rise, quick rise yeast or instant yeast. You use a lot of yeast in this recipe but that is what makes them rise so fast. I didn’t find the large amount of yeast affected the flavor at all.
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1 Hour Cinnamon Rolls
Ingredients
- 1 cup water warm (105-110 degrees F)
- 3/4 cup buttermilk room temperature
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup butter melted but not hot
- 3 Tbsp yeast regular
- 1/2 Tbsp salt
- 2 eggs
- 5-6 cups bread flour can all use all purpose flour
Filling
- 2 Tbsp butter melted
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 Tbsp cinnamon
Frosting
- 1/4 cup butter softened
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- enough milk or half and half to make it spreading consistency.
Instructions
- Mix together water, buttermilk, sugar, melted butter and yeast in a bowl. Allow to sit for 15 minutes.
- Add in salt, eggs and flour and mix for 10 minutes.
- Allow to sit for 10 minutes.
- While resting prepare your filling
- Mix together 2 Tbsp melted butter, brown sugar, sugar and cinnamo0n.
- Roll dough out on to greased countertop into a 12 x 16 inch rectangle.
- Sprinkle with filling and roll up. Cut into 12 large rolls using thread or dental floss.
- Place rolls on a cookie sheet covered with a silpat or parchment paper.
- Let rise for 15 minutes
- Bake at 400 for 12-15 minutes.
- Mix together frosting and spread on warm rolls.
Tips & Notes:
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Susan Rubin says
Could I use All Purpose Flour instead of Bread Flour?
Leigh Anne says
You may, the bread flour makes them a little more tender
Lucille says
Thank you very much Leigh Anne for the prompt response. I will try these again in the next few days, as I would like to try to successfully bake these rolls. Do you think this would work – I start with five cups and then when the mixer is half way through the mixing, starting to add the extra flour until the consistency is no longer sticky? Am just trying to understand how best to approach this. Thank you.
Leigh Anne says
That should work fine. There are so many things that can effect the stickiness of the dough. Just work it until you can handle it without it sticking all over your hands.
Lucille says
Help! I consider myself an experienced baker however do not have much experience working with yeast. I watched the video several times prior to undertaking the rolls today and studied the recipe instructions closely. When I transferred the dough onto the counter I realized there was a problem right away. The dough was extremely sticky compared to the photos I saw on the blog. With some difficulty I was able to roll it, though it was mushy, and the mushy rolls are in the oven. I was curious to see how they would taste before I threw them out! So, could I get some advice on where I went wrong; I suspect there was not enough flour, but am not sure? Any comments/advice much appreciated. Thank you.
Leigh Anne says
Lucille, Any time your dough is too sticky, add additional flour to make it workable. Your altitude and weather can effect your dough.
Linda says
What if you only have a hand mixer? Do you have to mix for 10 minutes? Suggestions?
Leigh Anne says
A handmixer should work as long as it is heavy duty enough.
Vicki Skonieczny says
Just tried these and brought them over to our daughter and son-in-laws house last night. Everyone went mad for these. I can’t believe I waited so long to try this recipe. Now it will be the only one I make. So easy and such a beautiful dough to work with. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! These were amazing.
Leigh Anne says
So glad you love them too! It is the only cinnamon roll I make anymore too!