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Eggnog Cinnamon Rolls

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Eggnog Cinnamon Rolls with Browned Butter
Course Dessert
Keyword Cinnamon Rolls
Prep Time 45 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Rise time 2 hours
Total Time 3 hours 10 minutes
Servings 24

Equipment

  • Stand mixer with dough hook attachment
  • 2  7”x11” baking pans

Ingredients

For the rolls

  • ½ cup browned butter
  • ¼ cup water
  • ¾ cup eggnog room temperature
  • 4 ½ teaspoons active dry yeast two packets
  • 4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 ½ teaspoon salt

For the Filling

  • 1/3 cup browned butter
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon nutmeg

For the Frosting

  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 4 Tablespoons eggnog

Instructions

  • Bring the eggnog to room temperature. While it is sitting out, put all the butter in a medium sized saucepan over med-high heat. Bring it to a boil and let it cook, stirring it constantly until it begins to brown and get a nutty aroma.
  • Immediately remove the butter from the heat and separate (1/2 cup for the rolls and 1/3 cup for the filling).
  • Barely heat the water up until it is just above room temperature and add the yeast into it. Let it sit for 5 minutes or so until the yeast blooms and becomes fragrant.
  • In a stand mixer with a dough hook, add 1/2 cup of the browned butter (make sure it has cooled to become just warm, not hot), the yeast and water, and eggnog, Mix together and add eggs one at a time. Slowly add the flour, sugar and salt while the mixer is on low-medium. Let it knead the dough for about 5 minutes in order to get all the gluten working. The dough should become sticky and stretchy.
  • Cover the dough and let it rise in a warm place for 1 ½ hours.
  • Prepare the filling by mixing the cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar together.
  • On a well floured surface, roll the dough into a rectangle roughly 14” x 24”. That doesn’t have to be exact.
  • Drizzle the 1/3 cup of browned butter all over the rolled dough, leaving about a 1 inch perimeter around the edges without butter.
  • Evenly sprinkle the sugar mixture all over on top of the butter.
  • Roll the dough to form a long log and cut the edge off of each side. With a sharp serrated knife, cut out 24 rolls.
  • Place them into two- 7”x11” greased pans and cover them with plastic.
  • At this point you can either put them in the fridge overnight or let them rise for another 30 minutes before baking them. *
  • Preheat the oven to 375°F and bake the cinnamon rolls for 20-25 minutes until they are golden brown on the top.
  • Remove the cinnamon rolls from the oven and let them cool for about 10 minutes before frosting them.
  • Stir the powdered sugar and eggnog together to make the frosting. Drizzle the frosting over the top of the cinnamon rolls and serve.

Notes

These cinnamon rolls freeze well. I usually freeze one pan at this point and put the other in the fridge overnight.