My Wife and the kids like cinnamon rolls. I wanted to make my own but I’m not any good at dough nor getting cinnamon sugar/paste to stick to it before wrapping it up, so I looked up other options for making cinnamon rolls. There were lots of recipes, but all seemed convoluted, so I experimented a bit and came with my own.
This has all the ingredients of cinnamon rolls but is more of a cake. It’s easy to make, just three main stages and can be eaten warm or stored in an air tight container for a few days. It’s a great option for school cake sales or for taking to work for no reason other than cake is good 🙂
Ingredients
Main Cake
- 360g plain flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 200g caster sugar
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 375ml semi skimmed milk
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla essence
- 120g unsalted butter, melted
Cinnamon Topping
- 240g unsalted butter, softened
- 200g dark brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons plain flour
- 25g cinnamon
Glaze
- 200g icing sugar
- 5 tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
Method
Grease a 9″ by 13″ tin. Line it with baking paper coming up and over the sides (so that you can easily remove the cake once it’s cooked. Preheat the oven to 180°c (based on a fan oven)
Add all of the cake ingredients, except for the butter, into a bowl and mix well. When mixed, slowly add the melted butter and mix again. Pour this batter into the prepared tin.
Put all of the main cake ingredients, except the butter, into a bowl
Mix the ingredients together
Melt the butter gently
Add the butter to the cake mix
Pour the cake mix into the prepared cake tin
Put all of the topping ingredients into another bowl and mix well until the sugar and butter are creamed together. Drop spoonfuls of this mixture onto the top of the cake batter, then use a knife to swirl the topping into the batter.
Put all of the topping ingredients into a bowl
Mix until the butter, sugar and spices are all creamed together
Put spoonfuls of the ?? onto the main cake mix
Use a knife, swirl the ?? into the main cake mix, then put it into the oven to cook
Once combined, place the tin in the centre of the oven for 40 to 45 minutes until a skewer comes out clean when inserted in the middle. Leave the cake to cool for 10 minutes.
Take a clean bowl and mix together all the glaze ingredients. Pour this over the top of the still warm cake and leave it to set whilst the cake cools further.
Put all the glaze ingredients into a bowl and mix well
Pour the glaze over the still warm cake. When cool, slice and eat it
You can either cut and eat the cake whilst still warm (about 30 minutes after putting the glaze on) or let it cool totally and then serve it.