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Instant Pot Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Frosting
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Instant Pot Cinnamon Roll with Cream Cheese Frosting

Author: Shobee

Equipment

  • 1 Instant Pot Duo Crisp Plus Air fryer lid 8 quart
  • 1 round pan 8 inch
  • dental floss or kitchen twine

Ingredients

Yeast Mixture

  • 1/2 tbsp active dry yeast
  • 1/8 cup warm water

Tangzhong Mixture

  • 1 tbsp all- purpose flour
  • 1 tbsp milk
  • 2 1/2 tbsp water

Dough Ingredients

  • yeast mixture see above
  • tangzhong mixture see above
  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/8 cup white granulated sugar
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 tbsp unsalted butter softened

Cinnamon Filling

  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter
  • 1/4 cup Dark brown sugar
  • 2 tbsp ground cinnamon

Icing Ingredients

  • 4 oz cream cheese
  • 1/4 cup powdered sugar
  • 1/4 cup milk

Instructions

Prepare the Pan

  • Line an eight inch pan with parchment paper and spray with nonstick oil.Set aside.

Yeast Mixture

  • Warm the water in the microwave for six seconds. The idea is not to overheat the water so that it will not kill the yeast. Mix and set aside until the yeast blooms. This takes about five to ten minutes.

Tangzhong Mixture

  • Turn on the heat to low. Place the Tangzhong ingredients into the small saucepan and mix them together. Continually mix on low heat until the mixture becomes pasty, but not burnt. This process takes five to eight minutes.

Dough Base

  • Place parchment paper into your bread pan and spray nonstick oil. Set aside. Attach your hook attachment to the electric mixer. Place the flour, white granulated sugar, and salt. egg, yeast mixture, and Tangzhong mixture in the electric mixing bowl. Mix the ingredients to low speed until the mixture will look like wet sand.
    Now you can add the softened butter. Mix to medium speed. The mixture will look really wet, but eventually, it will form into a dough. Mix until the flour is smooth, about seven minutes of mixing.
    Remove the dough and form it into a ball. Brush the bowl you used with oil and return the dough back into it. Turn the dough so that it will be coated with oil. Cover and place the dough in a warm place for one hour.
    After an hour, sprinkle your working area with flour. Coat your rolling pin with flour. Form the dough into a rectangle- about one-fourth inch thick.
    Fill generously with the cinnamon filling. Roll the dough into a twelve-inch long log and cut the dough equally using kitchen twine or dental floss. Place into the prepared bread pan. Cover the dough with a cloth or plastic wrap and let it sit in a warm place for thirty minutes.

Baking the Cinnamon Roll in the Instant Pot

  • Prepare an 8 -inch pan by lining it with parchment paper and spraying it with nonstick oil. Set it aside. Place the trivet in the inner pot. Let the trivet hold the pan together. Place the inner pot into the instant pot base and cover it with the air fryer lid. Push the bake setting button and set the temperature to 350 F. Set the timer to fourteen minutes.

How to Bake in the a oven

  • Place the oven rack in the middle layer. Do the steps mentioned and preheat the oven to 350 F. When the oven is ready, place the bread pan in the middle of the rack and bake for eighteen to twenty minutes. Start checking the bread at eighteen minutes by tapping the bread. If it sounds hollow, the bread is done.

Cream Cheese Icing

  • Place the cream cheese into a medium-sized bowl and mix the cream cheese using an electric hand mixer. Add the powdered sugar in three intervals and add a small amount of milk in three intervals as well. Mix until the icing is smooth and liquidy. Add more liquid as needed.

Cinnamon Filling

  • Place the melted butter, ground cinnamon into a medium size bowl and mix together.