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Biscuit Cinnamon Rolls have all the delicious flavor as a regular cinnamon roll, without yeast or rise time. And the biscuit dough gives you a nice flaky texture.
Why You Will Love This Recipe
If you love fresh homemade cinnamon rolls, bur don’t want to work with yeast or have the time to let them rise, this is the perfect recipe for you. And the biscuit dough makes for a denser, flakier texture. You will love this combination.
Ingredients
You probably have all of these ingredients in your kitchen already! I used my favorite biscuit dough recipe, what I consider to be the very BEST biscuits!
- flour
- baking powder
- baking soda
- salt
- sugar
- brown sugar
- powdered sugar
- cinnamon
- sour cream
- butter
- vanilla
- milk or half and half
How to Make Biscuit Cinnamon Rolls
I mix up the dough in my food processor and then knead it a few times on the counter. You need a big food processor, 7 cups or larger, because it totally fills it! If you don’t have a food processor you can mix it up by hand and just build some muscle!
- Combine dry ingredients in your food processor.
- Pulse until butter is small and well blended pieces.
- Add in the sour cream and water and mix well.
- Knead a few times on the counter and roll out to 1 inch thick
- Divided the dough into two parts and rolled each one out so that it was about 9 x 12 inches.
- Brush with melted butter and add the cinnamon sugar mixture.
- Roll the dough up and use a serrated knife to cut it into 8 pieces. This recipe make 16 cinnamon rolls.
- Place them on a parchment covered cookie sheet.
- Bake at 400 degrees for 15-17 minutes.
After they are baked lather them up with some homemade frosting.
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Biscuit Cinnamon Rolls
Ingredients
- 4 cups flour
- 2 Tbsp baking powder
- 1½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ cup butter
- 16 oz sour cream
- 3-5 tsp water
Filling
- 2 Tbsp melted butter
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
Frosting
- ¼ cup butter softened
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- enough milk or half and half to make it spreading consistency.
Instructions
- Combine dry ingredients in a bowl or your food processor
- If using food processor, pulse until butter is small and well blended pieces or cut in butter by hand using a pastry cutter
- Add in the sour cream and water and mix well
- Pulse again until well mixed
- Add more water if it is too dry (just a little at a time.)
- Knead a few times on the counter and roll out to 1 inch thick
- Divide dough into two pieces
- Roll each piece out into a 9 x 12 rectangle.
- Brush with half of melted butter
- Mix together sugars and cinnamon and spread evenly over dough (use 1/2 of mixture for each piece)
- Roll up and slice each log into 8 pieces – total of 16 biscuits
- Place on a parchment covered cookie sheet
- Bake at 400 F for 15-17 minutes or until top is golden
Frosting
- Mix together ingredients and lather on top of warm cinnamon rolls.
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Novice Baker says
I love this recipe! Now that I am dairy free, could you help me modify it? Would coconut cream work to replace the sour cream?
Lily says
They look so yummy. One of the ingredients says soda. Is it baking soda? And for foresting, is vanilla as vanilla extract?
Thank you!
Leigh Anne says
Lily, Yes, that is baking soda. I updated the recipe with that. And vanilla is vanilla extract.
Rick Ward says
Skip the biscuit ingredients and just use Bisquick.