Apple Cinnamon Rolls

🧂 Ingredients

• 4 tbsp. salted butter

  (1/2 stick)
• 1 1/2 cups half-and-half

  warmed (see note below)
• 4 cups bread flour
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp. sea salt
• 2 tsp. Fleischmann’s active dry yeast

  or bread machine yeast
• 6 tbsp. salted butter

  softened
• 3/4 cup light brown sugar

  packed
• 3 to 3 1/2 tbsp. ground cinnamon

  or more, as desired
• 2 cups gala apples

  peeled, cored and diced
• 1/2 cup salted butter

  softened (1 stick)
• 1 tsp. real vanilla extract

  no substitutes
• dash sea salt
• 5 to 6 tbsp. half-and-half
• 3 cups powdered sugar

  or as desired

Instructions

• 1 Layer ingredients in order listed.
• 2 Cut butter into slivers and place on bottom of bread canister. (Or, if the
  butter is softened, just place the whole piece in the bread canister).
• 3 Measure half-and-half into a measuring cup.
• 4 Microwave at 50% power for 1 minute 30 seconds or up to 2 minutes until warmed.
• 5 Pour warm cream over top of butter.
• 6 Spread flour over top of cream.
• 7 Then sprinkle with granulated sugar, salt and yeast.
• 8 Place in breadmaker and put on “dough” setting.
• 9 This will take approximately 1 hour 45 minutes.
• 10 Remove dough from bread canister and roll out into a very large rectangle.
• 11 Spread softened butter over top, then sprinkle with brown sugar.
• 12 With your hand, spread the brown sugar so that it fills in all the crevices.
• 13 Sprinkle with cinnamon, then apples.
• 14 Roll up tightly jelly-roll style.
• 15 Cut into one to two-inch pieces and place in a greased baking dishes.
• 16 See notes below for raising dough.
• 17 Soften unsalted butter.
• 18 Spread butter as evenly as possible over the large rectangular piece of dough.
• 19 Sprinkle brown sugar over top.
• 20 Carefully with your hand, spread the brown sugar across the dough so that all
  the crevices are filled in to the edges.
• 21 Sprinkle cinnamon evenly over top of the brown sugar.
• 22 Then spread the diced apples over top.
• 23 Roll up carefully and cut dough into even one to two-inch sections with a sharp
  knife.
• 24 Place cut side up in a greased rectangular baking dish.
• 25 Allow to rise in a warm place about an hour and a half until the rolls come up
  almost to the top of the baking dish.
• 26 Bake at 350° approximately 17-20 minutes or until rolls test done. (See note
  below).
• 27 Add icing and serve.
• 28 Place ingredients in a mixer and beat for several minutes.
• 29 Dollop over top of hot cinnamon rolls after they come out of the oven.

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