It's been a decade since I've made yeasted cinnamon rolls. Those soft, warm, gooey rolls are delicious - but incredibly time consuming. The dough generally requires a few rises, making the final product a little too late for breakfast and a little too decadent for lunch. So once-in-a-decade seems like the appropriate frequency for making these high-caloric, time-consuming treats.
The inspiration for my 2020s attempt came from King Arthur Flour, which declared their Perfectly Pillowy Cinnamon Rolls as the KAF 2021 Recipe of the Year. I halved this recipe and also followed the KAF catalog printed recipe, which had some slight deviations from the online recipe (namely 1 tbsp. of Vietnamese cinnamon instead of regular ground cinnamon).
The recipe was very easy to follow, and I wished I adhered to it more closely by using dental floss to more cleanly cut the rolls. Otherwise though, the tangzhong-based recipe produced soft and light rolls with a very, very sweet (but tasty) icing.
The baked rolls held up for two days post-baking, and their only downside was that they took a long time to prepare. See you in the 2030s delicious yeasted cinnamon rolls!
Those look delicious! But how can there already be a 2021 recipe of the year????!!!?? We are only 3 months in! What if by June, bundt cakes become the thing and that needs to be recipe of the year 2021? Do we strip cinnamon rolls of their title?? What is KAF thinking???
Posted by: Cuddles | March 10, 2021 at 07:38