Love the sweet, decadent, yeasty aroma of freshly baked cinnamon rolls? You can create these delicacies in your own kitchen, using a few simple ingredients.

In this class, you’ll be guided step-by-step in mixing, kneading, rolling, filling, and baking your own fantastic cinnamon rolls.

Fill yours with traditional brown sugar and cinnamon and finish with cream cheese frosting, or let your imagination go wild and fill and frost your rolls with orange zest, raspberry jam, Nutella, sauteed apples, peanut butter, nuts, or even rainbow sprinkles.

You’ll learn:

*How to choose the best ingredients

*How to change the recipe to make your rolls gluten-free, dairy-free or vegan.

*How to use different flavors in your filling and frosting to customize your rolls.

*How to work with yeast

*How to knead your dough and why it’s important

*The supplies you’ll need and some easy substitutions.

*And hints and tips to ensure your rolls always turn out deliciously!

This class is perfect for beginning and intermediate bakers. If you are new to baking, cinnamon rolls are a great place to start.

You’ll leave class with a pan of wonderfully warm, filled, and frosted rolls, recipes, and the skills and know-how to make world-class cinnamon rolls at home, any time!

Project Description

You’ve seen how easy it is to make a pan of amazing cinnamon rolls, so now it’s your turn.

Re-read the recipe, decide what flavors you are going to fill and frost your rolls with, collect your ingredients and supplies, and start baking.

If you have any questions along the way, please feel free to reach out to me via the message board. I’m more than happy to help.

When you have made your pan of delicious rolls, post a picture to the project page, with the flavors you decided on, and let us know how it went. I can’t wait to see what you turn out!

Happy Baking!

Here is the link to my Intro video:

https://youtu.be/u9WE3hzuYY8

Class outline:

Intro Video

Lesson Title: Roll, Fill, and Boke The Best Cinnamon Rolls Ever

Video Format: Talking head

Media & Visuals: Shots of ingredients, supplies, kneading, forming, and finished product

Lesson Length: <2 minutes

Talking Points and Key Concepts:

Who among us isn't lured by the sweet, decadent, yeasty aroma of freshly baked cinnamon rolls? You can create these delicacies in your own kitchen, using a few simple ingredients.

We’ll talk about:

The simple ingredients that are combined to make amazing cinnamon rolls

The kitchen utensils, bowls, and baking pans you’ll use, with plenty of use-what-you’ve-got suggestions.

Ways you can use different flavors to make each pan of rolls your own.

And how to make your rolls gluten-free, dairy-free, or vegan, using the same recipe to accommodate different dietary concerns.

Then we’ll get baking. We will mix up our ingredients, talk about how to knead the dough like a pro, and make a delicious filling.

Finally, we’ll form our rolls, and while they are in the oven, we’ll mix up a sweet, gooey frosting to smear on top.

Over the last 15 years, I've taught thousands of people to cook, bake and eat well.

My goal is to make your life in the kitchen easier and more fun by improving your skills - regardless of your level of experience, and learning to make things you love - like cinnamon rolls - is a great place to start. When we’re done, you’ll have everything you need to create the best cinnamon rolls ever, anytime you want.

Project Video

Lesson Title: Your Project

Video Format: Talking head

Media & Visuals: Pictures of finished product

Lesson Length: <2 minutes

Talking Points and Key Concepts:

Your class project will be to create an amazing pan of delicious

cinnamon rolls, using whatever filling and flavor you’d like to make your own rolls special.

Please watch the video all the way through and decide which flavor you’d like to use in your first batch of rolls.

Then read the recipe to see what you will need, and gather your ingredients and supplies. The recipe for the dough will be the same but the ingredients you will need for the fillings, frostings may change.

Then, after you’ve watched the video all the way through, read the recipe, and gathered your stuff, come back here, and let’s put it all together.

Lesson

Lesson Title: Your Ingredients - Everything You’ll Need

Video Format: Taking Head, visual demonstration

Media & Visuals: B rolls, all the ingredients

Lesson Length: 4 - 5 minutes

Talking Points and Key Concepts:

Flour
Yeast
Sugar

Milk

Butter

Cinnamon

Brown sugar

Cream cheese

Vanilla

Ways to customize - different flavors for fillings and frosting

How to make your rolls dairy-free, vegan, or gluten-free

Lesson

Lesson Title: Your Supplies

Video Format: Talking Head, demonstration

Media & Visuals: All the supplies

Lesson Length: 4-5 minutes

Talking Points and Key Concepts:

Pans 1 large or 2 small (why?), muffin tins, baking sheet

A mixing bowl that holds at least 8 cups of liquid

2 smaller bowls

Measuring cups and spoons or a kitchen scale

A large spoon - wooden or plastic

A whisk or fork

A rolling pin or something that can work as a rolling pin, like a wine bottle, can of spray oil, or even a straight-sided glass.

The sharpest knife in your kitchen

Wet towel

A silicone spatula

Bench scraper - optional but helpful

Parchment paper

Plastic wrap

Counter top or cutting board with damp towel

Stand mixer if you’ve got one and want to use it

Lesson

Lesson Title: Mis en place

Video Format: Talking Head and demo

Media & Visuals: Prepped ingredients

Lesson Length: 3 minutes

Talking Points and Key Concepts:

Why mis en place

Kitchen scale, demo with flour

Scale or measuring cups

Amounts of each ingredient imperial and metric

Lesson

Lesson Title: Mix and Knead the Dough

Video Format: Demonstration

Media & Visuals: B roll, ingredients, supplies

Lesson Length: 5 minutes

Talking Points and Key Concepts:

Mixing

Kneading - why and how long

Windowpaning

Rising

Chilling

How long - overnight

Lesson

Lesson Title: Make the Filling

Video Format: Demo

Media & Visuals: B roll, brown sugar, cinnamon, butter, vanilla, bowl, fork or spatula

Lesson Length: 2 -3 minutes

Talking Points and Key Concepts:

Soft butter, why not melted

Texture

Can I use less butter?

What if I’m subbing ingredients

Lesson

Lesson Title: Fill, Form, and Bake Your Rolls

Video Format: Demo

Media & Visuals: B Roll, rolling pin, knife, parchment paper, pans

Lesson Length: 5 minutes

Talking Points and Key Concepts:

Preheat oven

Where does the rack go

Prep pans

Parchment paper, flour

Roll dough out- how thick, rectangle, not round ends

Roll the dough up - parchment paper

Cut using the sharpest knife - wet towel, how to cut sushi style

Push up bottoms

Put in pan - discuss options re: pans, tins, baking sheet

Let rise for 30 minutes

Bake 20-25 minutes

How to know when it’s done

Lesson

Lesson Title: Make the Frosting

Video Format: Demo

Media & Visuals: Bowl, butter, cream cheese, milk, vanilla, spatula

Lesson Length: 3 minutes

Talking Points and Key Concepts:

Butter and cream cheese out of the fridge until softened, why?

How to mix

Consistency

How to thicken

Ways to customize

Lesson

Lesson Title: Cooling, Frosting, Storage

Video Format: Demo, talking head

Media & Visuals: B roll, baked rolls, frosting, spatula

Lesson Length: 2 minutes

Talking Points and Key Concepts:

How to cool

Cooling rack?

Frosting

How to store

How to reheat

Conclusion Video

Lesson Title: Now It’s Your Turn

Video Format: Talking head

Media & Visuals: Pics of finished rolls

Lesson Length: 1 minute

Talking Points and Key Concepts:

Recap - ingredients, supplies, mixing, kneading, forming, baking, filling, frosting

Recipe

Project

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