Quick and Easy Cinnamon Rolls - Ready in One Hour! (2024)

These Quick & Easy Cinnamon Rolls are the BEST simple cinnamon rolls to make in only 1 hour – with my pro tips and tricks! Fluffy, sweet and delicious with an easy cream cheese frosting!

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Aren’t cinnamon rolls just the BEST!?!? In my opinion there’s nothing better than a soft, fluffy cinnamon roll fresh from the oven, packed with fragrant cinnamon sugar filling and topped with a delicious cream cheese frosting. If you’re a cinnamon roll lover like me you’ll definitely know the struggle – baking homemade cinnamon rolls is a lot of work and takes hours! But not anymore!! These Quick and Easy Cinnamon Rolls are ready in only ONE HOUR and they’re some of the BEST cinnamon rolls you’ll ever taste!

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not always a fan of taking shortcuts in the kitchen – sometimes the best recipes are those cooked or baked low and slow with classic techniques, but these Quick and Easy Cinnamon Rolls use a few absolutely fantastic shortcuts and simple tricks that create the most fluffy and delicious cinnamon rolls in less than half the time it usually takes to bake up a batch of cinnamon rolls from scratch. Trust me, you’re going to LOVE them!

Ingredients for Quick and Easy Cinnamon Rolls

To make these Easy Cinnamon Rolls in one hour, you’ll need:

• Warm milk
• Instant yeast
• Granulated sugar
• Melted butter
• Egg
• All purpose flour
• Salt
• Brown Sugar
• Cinnamon
• Powdered Sugar
• Cream Cheese
• Lemon Juice

Kitchen Equipment for Making Quick and Easy Cinnamon Rolls

To make these Quick and Easy One Hour Cinnamon Rolls you’ll need these kitchen tools (affiliate links):

• Measuring Cups (liquid and dry) and Measuring Spoons
• Stand mixer fitted with the dough hook attachment (OR you can make them by hand with a wooden spoon and a large mixing bowl)
• Plastic wrap for covering the bowl
• Another larger mixing bowl (make sure the first bowl fits inside it)
• Rolling Pin
• Oven-safe skillet or baking dish or pan
• A large chef’s knife for slicing the rolls
• A pastry brush (optional)

5 Pro Tips for Quick and Easy Cinnamon Rolls in ONLY 1 Hour!

• Pro Tip #1: Use Warm Milk

In order to achieve a fluffy dough that rises well, the temperature of the wet ingredients when they hit the yeast is critical: too cold, and the yeast won’t be able to grow; too hot and the liquid will kill the yeast. Both of these situations will cause your dough to be tough and dry, and you’ll be lucky if it rises at all.

To help these rolls rise quickly, use warm milk that feels like the temperature of a baby’s bath water (not too hot!).

• Pro Tip #2: The Dough Should Be Sticky

Cinnamon bun dough should be tacky to the touch, but not so sticky that it’s very messy. It should pull away from the sides of the mixing bowl easily and the bowl should appear fairly clean. If the dough appears too sticky, continue kneading and add flour one tablespoon at a time until the dough reaches that tacky texture.

Too little flour and the dough will be too sticky and will result in dense buns. Too much flour and the dough will be tough, resulting in dry, crumbly buns.

• Pro Tip #3: Use my Warm Water Trick for a Quick Rise

The BEST way to get your dough to rise quickly is to use warm water to warm up the mixing bowl as the dough rises. Once you’ve made the dough, place the bowl inside another larger bowl and pour very warm (almost HOT) water into the larger bowl (between the two bowls- just until the water gets at the same height as the dough is in the initial bowl) so the heat from the warm water is absorbed by the first bowl and warms up the dough inside – just be sure you don’t get any water inside the bowl with the dough! Warm dough rises much faster, and with this warm water trick you’ll be able to cut the rise time from the typical 60 or 90 minutes to only 20 minutes!

Placing your dough in a metal bowl to rise when you use this trick helps the dough rise even faster since metal conducts the heat from the water more than a glass or plastic bowl would. If you’re short on mixing bowls you can also place the bowl with the dough in your kitchen sink and fill the sink with warm (almost hot) water to just below the top of the mixing bowl. Again, just be sure you don’t get any water inside the bowl with the dough!

• Pro Tip #4: Forget the Flour – Grease is Great

Turn the dough out onto a very lightly greased work surface rather than flouring the work surface. This makes the dough easy to roll out and it helps the surface of the dough to remain soft instead of drying it out like adding more flour would do. I like to spritz my counter top with a little bit of vegetable oil to make sure the dough doesn’t stick and it works like a charm!

• Pro Tip #5: Rise the Rolls in the Oven While the Oven Preheats

There’s no need to let the rolls rise a second time – simply place them in a cold oven and set the oven to the correct temperature. The rolls will complete their final rise as the oven preheats, and this will cut down the baking time too!

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I hope you love this recipe as much as we do! Let me know in the comments below, what’s your favourite sweet breakfast for entertaining? I’d love to know!

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Recipe Video

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