These Easy Bread Machine Cinnamon Rolls are perfectly soft and fluffy, generously slathered with a vanilla bean cream cheese frosting. I can’t get enough of this recipe, reminds me of Cinnabon cinnamon rolls.
We don’t have Cinnabon here in Australia, they probably make the tastiest cinnamon buns in the world! This recipe is my homage to Cinnabon, creating my Cinnabon copycat recipe, using a bread machine.
How to make Bread Machine Cinnamon Rolls
The easiest part of this easy cinnamon rolls recipe is making the yeast dough. Many people are scared to make yeast dough as it seems complicated, and needs time to rise. Don’t be scared of yeast dough any more! Using a break machine’s dough cycle makes it so easy. Just throw all the ingredients in, press the dough cycle and your yeast dough is ready in 90 minutes.
When the dough comes out of the bread maker, it will be sticky. Place it on a floured surface, just don’t knead it to death, it needs to be fluffy but not sticky. Roll it out, slather in melted butter and cover with the cinnamon sugar mix. You can see my video below on how to make Sweet Yeast Dough from scratch if you don’t have a bread maker.
Cinnamon Roll Cream Cheese Frosting
Of course, you have to use cream cheese frosting for your homemade cinnamon rolls. This is not a recipe for you if you are on a diet! You need lots of cream cheese, butter, icing sugar and vanilla bean paste (or vanilla).
This frosting recipe makes a very generous serve of cream cheese. I hate going to Cinnabon, and they give you a small stingy portion of frosting, forcing you to pay for a bigger size. Maybe I just hate paying for things that don’t cost much money to make, so I’m extra generous at home.
You could halve the cream cheese frosting recipe if you don’t like a lot of frosting on your homemade cinnamon rolls. I love lots of cream cheese frosting on the cinnamon bun, and like to add more with each bite. I think you can never have enough!
Easy Bread Machine Cinnamon Rolls, light, fluffy and packed with flavor A vanilla bean cream cheese frosting will have you asking for more. Who needs Cinnabon? Bon Appetit! Приятного аппетита!
Bread Machine Cinnamon Rolls
These easy Bread Machine Cinnamon Rolls are perfectly soft and fluffy, generously slathered with a vanilla bean cream cheese frosting. I can't get enough of this recipe, reminds me of Cinnabon cinnamon rolls.
Ingredients
Dough Recipe
- 1 cup milk lukewarm
- 1/3 cup melted butter
- 2 eggs
- 4 cups of flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 packet of bread machine yeast
Cinnamon Sugar Spice Mix
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- ¼ cup unsalted butter melted
Cream Cheese Frosting
- 1 ½ cups icing sugar
- ¼ cup butter room temperature
- 1 cup cream cheese room temperature (about 8oz.)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
Instructions
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Place ingredients, in the order listed, into your bread machine and select the dough program (this will take about 90 minutes).
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Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface, into a 12"x15" rectangle. Brush melted butter all over the dough and generously sprinkle all the cinnamon sugar mixture. Tightly roll up the dough and cut into 12 even pieces. Each piece is about 2½ inches wide. This recipe make 12 cinnamon rolls. Place cinnamon buns on baking paper in a baking pan. Carefully cover with cling wrap, cover with a kitchen towel and allow to rise for about 20-30 minutes until they double in size. I place them in a slightly warm over that is turned off.
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Bake in 190°C/375°F preheated oven until golden brown, or about 12 minutes.
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Take the softened cream cheese and butter and whisk together with icing sugar and vanilla bean paste. Be generous! Spread on warm cinnamon buns before serving, with extra cream cheese while you eat!
Recipe Notes
This is a very generous cream cheese recipe portion. I love lots of cream cheese with my cinnamon buns, and love extra with each bite. You could easily halve the cream cheese recipe if you prefer (or make an extra batch of cinnamon buns). But I promise that you'll want more vanilla cream cheese frosting!
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Made it!! So easy, so delicious – no work fool proof buns. Throw it in the machine and press the button. 5 stars! Working on my 2nd batch for the day. I omitted the nutmeg and used extra butter to smear inside the filling. The frosting is to die for!
Hi Rebecca, you’re right, the bread machine makes it so easy! Great tips, thanks for sharing!
Best home-made cinnamon rolls i’ve made yet and i absolutely fell in love with this recipe from the first bite! I also made it with peach jam instead of cinnamon sugar and a raspberry drizzle which came out amazing as well. Very versatile dough. 🙂
Thanks Jess! And great idea about the peach jam, sounds delicious! I love this dough recipe too!
You can make this keto by using carbalose flour( 1:1 ratio with reg. flour) and 1:1 sugar substitutes and it came out great. I also added 1 tsp. of honey to give the yeast something extra to work on.
Thanks Liz, great tip!! 👍🏻
I will never look at store bought refrigerated cinnamon buns the same again. This is my first time making cinnamon rolls from scratch but I don’t think it will be my last. I love my bread machine and always look for any excuse to use it.
The dough is light and fluffy. I may cut back on the nutmeg next time and increase the cinnamon due to preference but these are delicious and this recipe is going into my rotation.
Thanks Linda for the feedback! So glad you love it as much as we do! 😊
First time making cinnamon rolls from scratch! So good and the icing is to die for. I had to bake mine nearly 17 minutes but other than that I followed recipe exactly. My family thoroughly enjoyed in Christmas Day!
Thanks Kim! So glad you enjoyed them! I loooove the icing, probably my favorite!!! ❤️
My first time making cinnamon rolls!👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
You made it so easy. I am loving my bread maker!
Amazing! So glad they worked! I love using the dough cycle! Such a time saver!!!
These are so good! I’d love to make a few batches and freeze. When do you recommend doing that? After rising but before baking?
Hi Heather! So glad you love them! With regards to freezing them, I think they’d freeze best after they are baked and cooled. When making yeast dough that is to be frozen, the yeast ratio needs to be higher as the freezing will cause some to die off. So definitely bake before freezing 😊
This recipe is the PERFECT Cinnabun recipe in Australia because of our climate. Which can get really dry during winter and makes the bread stale. But this recipe defies this and keeps them moist and soft – great for a winter pick-me-up! Thanks PK for the share
So glad you loved it as much as we do!!! 🙂
Looks good. I prefer Chelsea Buns which have raisins lots of spice and lashings of icing.
Yum, raisins are great, and I love adding pecans too! ????????