Amish Cinnamon Rolls

sugarspunrun.com · 2026 · 12 cinnamon rolls

Against 364 cinnamon roll recipes

Less liquid than 90% of recipes and more salt than 88%.

How it compares

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

Less liquid than 90% of recipes: 36% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 53%.
More salt than 88% of recipes: 1.8% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1%.
More egg than 82% of recipes: 20% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 11%.

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

½ cup whole milk≈ 122 g
¼ cup water≈ 59 g
2 ½ teaspoons active dry yeast≈ 8 g
1 teaspoon granulated sugar≈ 4.2 g
⅓ cup granulated sugar≈ 67 g
1 cup mashed russet potato ((unseasoned/unsalted, room temperature or slightly warm – see note!))≈ 150 g
2 large eggs (room temperature preferred)≈ 100 g
1 ½ teaspoons table salt≈ 9 g
6 Tablespoons unsalted butter (softened and cut into Tablespoon-sized pieces)≈ 85 g
4 cups bread flour + additional as needed≈ 508 g

Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.

flour 508 gbatter 1112 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.