These are so festive and delicious to serve at Christmas time. These are easy to put together and are perfect to serve family or house guests. If you are wanting to get the gang out of bed to start the day, put these in the oven and they suddenly appear!
My recipe calls for sourdough discard. You DO NOT need to use active, bubbly starter for this recipe. If you are new to bread baking or working with starter, I recommend you read No-Knead Sourdough for Beginners. If you don’t have starter, try baking these!
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Christmas Morning Cinnamon Rolls
These are easy to put together and are perfect to serve family or house guests. If you are wanting to get the gang out of bed to start the day, put these in the oven and they suddenly appear!
Ingredients
- 8 Tbsp cold butter
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup starter
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- FILLING: 1 cup brown sugar, 2 tsp cinnamon, 1/3 cup melted butter
- ICING: 1 cup confectioners sugar, 2 jTbsp cream or milk, 2 Tbsp melted butter, 1/2 tsp vanilla extract.
- 1/2 cup or more of crushed peppermint sticks for topping
Instructions
- Use a cheese grater to grate the cold butter in to a medium size bowl. Add flour and mix.
- Add sour dough starter, buttermilk, and 1/4 cup honey. Mix by hand to form a dough.
- Cover and leave out on the counter overnight, 9-10 hours.
- The next morning, make the cinnamon spread. Mix cinnamon and sugar, set aside. Melt butter, set aside.
- Add baking powder, baking soda, and salt to dough. Mix/knead until fully incorporated.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease 9 by 11 or 12 inch pan.
- Toss dough out on to lightly floured surface.
- Roll out to a 10 by 12 inch rectangle.
- Brush melted butter over the dough.
- Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar on top.
- Roll dough lengthwise and then use a pastry cutter or sharp knife to cut in to 8 -10 pieces.
- Place on a greased parchment lined baking pan or cast iron pan.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until just starting to brown along the edges.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool for 10 -15 minutes.
- Make ICING.
- Drizzle over the cinnamon rolls and then sprinkle with crushed peppermint.
- Serve immediately!
Notes
These are best served right out of the oven.
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3 Responses
Didn’t u omit a step before baking? Assume I just roll up the dough longwise and then about how big do u usually cut the roll segments? Ans should the rolls be touching each other in the pan? Thnx!
Yes you will need to roll the dough! I’ll go back and check my recipe. Sometimes I make mistakes!
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Yes! I did in fact leave that out!! thanks for letting me know :)