This giant carrot cake cinnamon roll with cream cheese frosting is made with NO YEAST! With the help of a secret and unexpected ingredient. Slice it up like a big cake at your next brunch gathering!
This is a rebirth of a recipe I found a couple years ago – quick and easy cinnamon rolls that require NO YEAST. All because of a super, lumptastic ingredient that I’ve always found to be kind of gross on it’s own, but in these cinnamon rolls. NOT GROSS.
It’s Cottage Cheese. Cottage mother f’in cheese. I don’t do science, so I’m not too sure why this works in place of yeast. And full disclosure, I will say that the texture of this is slightly different than a traditional cinnamon roll. But, nevertheless, it’s similar enough for me to toss my regular old cinnamon roll recipe out the window – at max speed. All the rising and punching and kneading and waiting. Ain’t none of that with this recipe! This giant carrot cake cinnamon roll will be on your table and in your mouth in under 1 hour.
On our 3rd Nor’Easter this year, I was home from work, still without functioning internet from the 2nd Nor’ Easter that had happened a week before that. And I thought “Hell, I guess I’ll bake!” and I had been wanting to blow the dust off this old gem and give it new life. This is a giant cinnamon roll, with a carrot cake spin is perfection for Easter – and it’d also be superb in regular cinnamon roll form. Oh and incase you’re reading the instructions on how to concoct this beauty, there’s a (not one of my best) quick and handy video to give you the idea! Giant cinnamon rolls forever.
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