Homemade Cinnamon Rolls - bread machine dough

I've shared my bread machine recipe for 

Semi-Homemade Rolls 

before. 

This is the same recipe as the rolls, but instead of making rolls...

we're making Cinnamon Rolls!

Semi-Homemade Cinnamon Rolls

1 cup milk
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1/4 cup sugar
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1/4 tsp salt
4 cups all purpose or bread flour
1 pkg active dry yeast (2 1/4 tsp)

Put ingredients in your bread machine pan in the order listed.
Put on dough setting. Mine takes 1 1/2 hrs to prepare the dough.

You can also use your own homemade dough or the frozen bread dough from the grocery store.

Flour your counter top and 'pour' dough on top of flour.
Sprinkle a dab of flour on top of the dough.

Flour your rolling pin.

Roll dough until 1/2 thickness.

Spread melted/softened butter over dough.

 Sprinkle cinnamon sugar over butter. 

You can also use brown sugar, and add pecans, 

walnuts, raisins or any other filling that you chose.

I make my own cinnamon sugar...

1 cup sugar

2 heaping teaspoons cinnamon

and keep it in a canning jar, 

with the seal and lid.

and poke a few holes in the top!. 

It's ready any time you need it!

Roll dough up, starting at a long end, until completely rolled. 

Cut in to 1 - 1 1/2 inch slices and place cut side down on a 

lightly greased (I used non-stick spray) baking sheet. 

I use a piece of thread to cut mine in to rolls. 

Loop the thread around the dough, and pull to opposites sides. 

It makes a perfect cut through!

  

Place on the greased (I use non-stick spray)

cut side down.

Place rolls in the oven and turn oven on to 350*.
Bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown on top.
Not necessarily this golden..

(note to self...stay off of facebook while baking cinnamon rolls!)

Mix 1 cup powdered sugar, 1 tsp vanilla or other flavor (today I used Lemon extract) and 2 tsp water or milk. You can start with 1 tsp and keep adding 1/2 tsp at a time until it reaches the spreadable thickness you'd like.

Spread the icing over the rolls.

And wa-la! 

Soft, sweet, and cinnamony