Dinner DeeAs Dessert Week recipe: Pecan Cinnamon Rolls

Dessert Week wraps up with Alyssa Dominguez from Toffee To Go and Extra, a South Tampa dessert café whose philosophy is “life’s too quick to eat a foul dessert.” Alyssa is right here to share a Pecan Cinnamon Roll recipe which lately joined the menu at Toffee To Go.

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Substances

Dough

• 8 oz lukewarm milk, about 110° F
• 2 ½ tsp dried prompt or energetic yeast
• ½ cup white granulated sugar (100g)
• ⅓ cup unsalted butter (38g)
• 2 massive eggs, room temperature
• 4 ½ cups all-purpose flour, divided – put aside ½ cup of this (585g)
• 1 tsp salt
• ½ cup heavy cream, room temperature

Cinnamon Sugar Filling

• 4 oz unsalted butter, softened (1 stick)
• 1 cup brown sugar, packed (210g)
• 2 tbsp floor cinnamon (16g)
• ¼ tsp salt
• 3 oz chopped pecans (optionally available)

Cream Cheese Frosting

• ⅓ cup unsalted butter, softened (38g)
• ¾ cup cream cheese, softened (6 oz)
• 2 cups powdered sugar (227g)
• ½ tbsp vanilla extract

Topping (Non-compulsory)

Instructions

Dough

1. Heat milk in microwave for about 30 seconds, till lukewarm in temperature (110° F) milk shouldn’t be steaming or boiling.
2. In mixer bowl, add lukewarm milk, white granulated sugar, and yeast combine till sugar is dissolved. Let sit for about 5–10 minutes to permit yeast to turn out to be bubbly.
3. As soon as yeast has bubbled up, add in room-temperature eggs and unsalted butter and blend till eggs are damaged up and combination is roughly mixed. It’s okay if butter continues to be clumped collectively.
4. Add flour and salt, stirring collectively till combination resembles shaggy dough ball.
5. With dough hook attachment, flip mixer as much as medium pace and blend till dough comes collectively round dough hook, pulling away from sides of bowl — dough is completed when dough bounces again when pressed. It ought to seem like a easy ball in 5-10 minutes.
6. Take away dough from mixing bowl and form into ball.
7. Grease mixing bowl with gentle spray oil, then return dough ball to greased bowl. Cowl bowl with plastic wrap or lightly-damp tea towel.
8. Place coated bowl in heat place and let dough rise till doubled in measurement—about half-hour, 80° F is right temperature. Strive placing coated bowl inside turned-off oven with gentle turned on.

Cinnamon Sugar Filling

1. Add softened butter, cinnamon, salt, and brown sugar to bowl.
2. Combine with spatula or hand-mixer till easy and mixed. Put aside for later.

Meeting

1. As soon as dough has doubled in measurement, take away it from mixing bowl onto calmly floured floor. Roll dough to 12″x15″ rectangle, about ½” thick.
2. Smear cinnamon sugar combination on prime of dough, leaving about ½” house alongside outdoors edges to forestall overfilling.
3. Sprinkle chopped pecans evenly on prime of dough, if desired at this stage.
4. Tightly roll dough into log form, ranging from lengthy edge. For 8″ x 13″ pan (12 rolls): rating out 12 evenly spaced sections with serrated knife, earlier than slicing every roll. For 10″ spherical cake pan (8 rolls): rating out 8 evenly spaced sections with serrated knife, earlier than slicing every roll.
5. Assemble buns in well-sprayed pan, then cowl with plastic or tea towel to let rise for one more 15–20 minutes. Preheat oven to 375° F (350° F if utilizing convection bake).
6. Pour heavy cream over buns previous to baking. Bake buns for 20–25 minutes till tops are golden brown (or inside temperature reads 180° F). If tops are getting too darkish and buns are nonetheless not totally baked, calmly cowl buns with foil to decelerate browning.
7. Take away completed cinnamon rolls from oven and let cool in pan for five minutes.
8. Drizzle buns with toffee sauce (if desired) or prime with cream cheese frosting and serve heat.

Cream Cheese Frosting

1. Whereas cinnamon rolls are baking, make cream cheese frosting in separate bowl, combining softened butter and softened cream cheese till easy.
2. Add powdered sugar, one cup at time. Combine with hand mixer till simply mixed.
3. Add vanilla extract and whip till frosting is fluffy and light-weight— 1–2 minutes.

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