One Hour! That’s all it takes to make these chocolate pecan cinnamon rolls. These bad boys are topped with cream cheese frosting and are sooooo good. They’re perfect with swirls of pecans and chocolate chunks built right into the centers. I promise hugs and smiles all around with these delicious one hour cinnamon rolls. But before we get to these cinnamon rolls, how was your Thanksgiving? Did you eat a bunch of food and lay around for a couple of hours? Any great steals or deals on Black Friday? I wouldn’t say mine was a steal of anything, but since Nov.26 was the 2nd anniversary of our little blog, we went out and bought the blog a well deserved computer! I had been using my personal laptop the last two years and the poor guy couldn’t hand all the software I run behind the scenes of LSJ anymore. I like how it worked out just in time for a milestone! So about these cinnamon rolls. They’re actually the first thing i’ve made in the new oven. yay And I have to tell you, I did sweat it a little. It’s not the recipe I was worried about because it’s my standard cinnamon rolls recipe that’s foolproof, it’s the oven. I was on top of that thing watching it like a hawk to make sure I had even browning all over without any burnt spots. I gotta say, it did a great job! If you’ve been reading the blog for at least a year now, you know that I was deathly afraid of yeasty breads for, oh I don’t know, the first quarter century of my life. Yes, I’m serious. So if I can learn to get over the fear of bread baking, so can you. Baby steps, right? That’s what it’s all about. The dough for today’s recipe is a quick one. It’s a recipe i’ve standardized and pretty much use whenever I make cinnamon rolls. In fact, I even adapted it to mak one hour dinner rolls with a couple of extra ingredients (shh… potato flakes). This recipe will make about 12 rolls. You can fit them all in a 9×13 pan. I wanted to make sure the recipe tested as individual cinnamon roll muffins and Ahhh! It was beautiful! I wish we had snapped a few pictures before devouring them, but the truth is it didn’t really hit me till just now.. Oooops. You can fit 8 rolls into a 9 inch round pie pan and use the rest to make cinnamon roll muffins or turn them all into muffins! The individual muffins would be perfect for family brunches. With the exception of 1 ingredient. You should have all of these on hand. The one ingredient that I use in my cinnamon rolls recipe that makes it the BEST is powdered milk. Just 2 tablespoons of it helps not only to give it a nicer texture but also to help taste more like bakery style cinnamon roll. Watch out Cinnabon, you’ve got major competition. The swirls in between the cinnamon rolls contain simple ingredients. A little brown sugar, some cinnamon, pieces of pecans, a little unsweetened cocoa, and chocolate chunks. Spread it all out on the buttered dough and just sit back and let your whole house smell amazing. You know those home scents posts on Pinterest? The ones that tell you to throw rosemary, oranges, and cloves, and cranberries into a pot of water and to let simmer for a few hours until your house smells beautiful? Well this is BETTER. This takes just one hour and at the end of it all you get hot, fresh, and fluffy cinnamon rolls. SCORE.
The espresso powder used in this recipe helps intensify the flavor of the chocolate. It doesn’t make these rolls taste like coffee.8 cinnamon rolls will fit in a 9-inch pie pan. all 12 will fit in a 9x13 pan. You can even bake individual cinnamon rolls by placing them in a greased cupcake pans.Powdered milk is usually found in the baking aisle right next to where they keep the evaporated milk.Recipe adapted from: My Caramel Apple Cinnamon Rolls.
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