What are Cinnamon rolls?

Cinnamon rolls are one of the best pastries ever. They were brought to America by German and Swedish immigrants in the late 17th Century.

Their popularity has only grown ever since. Luckily, they are one of the easiest pastries that you can make right in your very own home.

Cinnamon is a spice that shaped world history by kicking off the Age of Exploration and the invention of the cinnamon roll. This is a delicious baked good with the spice of cinnamon and the stomach filling goodness of a pastry.

The ingredients in a cinnamon roll vary from recipe to recipe but there are a lot of common ingredients that you will also find in other baked good recipes. Of course, the most important of these ingredients is cinnamon. You cannot have a cinnamon roll if you do not have cinnamon.

The process of making cinnamon rolls is pretty simple. You start by making or buying dough, kneading it, adding cinnamon, and then shaping the dough into rolls. After this, you bake the dough and then you have cinnamon rolls.

The History of Cinnamon Rolls

Cinnamon is one of the most important spices in world history. It is one of the spices that helped start the Age of Exploration.

Humans have been eating yeasty pastries for centuries, but it was not until the Age of Exploration made cinnamon more widely available to the world that the cinnamon roll was invented in the 17th Century.

Later in the 17th Century, German and Swedish immigrants brought the cinnamon roll to America.

This quickly became one of the most popular pastries in the colonies that would eventually become the United States.

In recent years, cinnamon rolls have become even more popular with the development of chains like Cinnabon and other food chains adding cinnamon rolls to their menus.

Ingredients in Cinnamon Rolls

The ingredients present in cinnamon rolls vary from recipe to recipe. However, there are some common ingredients that you can usually expect to find in any given recipe:

• Flour

• Sugar

• Salt

• Yeast

• Milk

• Water

• Butter

• Eggs

• Vanilla extract

• And of course, you cannot make cinnamon rolls without the final and most important ingredient: cinnamon.

Some recipes will call for additional ingredients and sometimes a recipe will substitute an ingredient for a different one. However, these are the staple ingredients that you will usually find.

Cinnamon Roll Nutritional Information

Cinnamon Rolls are a relatively low calorie compared to other baked pastries. According to nutritionix.com the average large cinnamon roll has only 290 calories.

However, it does not have any large amounts of carbohydrates, fiber, or other nutrients except for iron. The average large cinnamon roll has roughly 9.4% of the recommended daily intake.

One thing that cinnamon rolls are high in though is sodium content. At 686 milligrams of sodium, a large cinnamon roll makes up almost one third of the recommended daily sodium intake.

They also have almost ten grams of fat, almost fifteen percent of the recommended daily intake.

How To Make Cinnamon Rolls

The process of making cinnamon rolls starts out with making or buying dough. You can purchase premade dough from the store or you can make it yourself with the ingredients that you have assembled.

After you have made or bought the dough, it is time to knead the dough. This is something that you can do with your hands, or by putting the dough into a mixer.

After this, it is time to shape the dough into the rolls. Do this by spreading the dough out into a large rectangle and covering it with cinnamon and sugar. After you have done this, it is time to roll the dough into the shape of the cinnamon rolls.

After you have shaped the dough into cinnamon rolls, it is time to let the dough rise and bake it in the oven for a while. The exact time that you should be baking your cinnamon rolls depends on the instructions of the specific recipe that you are following.

Cinnamon Roll Recipes

If you are looking for recipes on how to bake your very own cinnamon rolls, there are lots of possibilities that you can choose from. These are some of the best that I have found over the years.

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