Easiest Cinnamon Rolls

smittenkitchen.com · Servings: 12 to 16

Against 364 cinnamon roll recipes

More liquid than 93% of recipes and less sugar than 90%.

How it compares

Against the typical pan: the median of 364 cinnamon roll recipes, per 100 g of flour.

More liquid than 93% of recipes: 75% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 53%.
Less sugar than 90% of recipes: 7.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 14%.
No egg at all, where 85% of recipes use some (most of those 10 to 18% of the flour weight).
Less yeast than 82% of recipes: 1.1% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.6%.

Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

2 cups (475 ml) milk, dairy or non-dairy (i.e. oat, almond, soy, etc.), warmed≈ 488 g
1/2 cup (115 grams) butter, dairy or non-dairy (i.e. margarine), melted and warm115 g
1/4 cup (50 grams) granulated sugar50 g
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt≈ 6 g
1 packet or 2.25 teaspoons (7 grams) active dry or instant yeast7 g
5 cups (650 grams) all-purpose flour, divided650 g

Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.

1/2 cup (115 grams) butter, dairy or non-dairy (i.e. margarine), softened115 g
3/4 cup (160 grams) dark brown sugar160 g
2 tablespoons (15 grams) ground cinnamon15 g
1 8-ounce (225-gram) block cream cheese or 1 8-ounce tub non-dairy cream cheese, at room temperature227 g
1 cup (120 grams) powdered sugar120 g
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract or 1/4 teaspoon vanilla bean paste≈ 2.1 g

flour 650 gbatter 1316 g

≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.

Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 364 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

Nearest by baker's percentages: liquid, butter, sugar, egg, yeast, salt.