Banana Bread Cinnamon Rolls

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How long has it been since you made homemade cinnamon rolls? These Fluffy Banana Bread Cinnamon Rolls with a luscious cream cheese frosting are a must if it’s been awhile! It’s a wonderful treat for your weekend when you have family in town or you want an extra special treat or brunch featuring bananas and cinnamon together!

More banana delish?  Check out this Super Easy Banana Bread Recipe!  We also included it in our 30 Mother’s Day Desserts for Mom!

I think these were invented because banana bread and cinnamon rolls got together behind the scenes, if ya know what I mean, and now we have these delicious Fluffy Banana Bread Cinnamon Rolls!  Yay!

I think that’s why these breakfast rolls are so sinful!  They should be named Temptress Banana Bread Cinnamon Rolls or something along those lines. Whoaaaaa!

Speaking of cinnamon rolls, you may love these Easy Quick Gooey Cinnamon Rolls, these Cinnamon Pumpkin Rolls, these Lemon Sweet Rolls and these Easy No Yeast Apple Cinnamon Rolls! YUM!

These Banana Bread Cinnamon Rolls Are So Fluffy!

These banana sweet rolls just melt in your mouth, just like you would imagine with an awesome cream cheese frosting with pecans scattered about.  There are even banana slices in the actual cinnamon rolls, plus they have incredible cinnamon buttery flavor and they smell soooo amazing!

This sweet roll recipe is great when you have some ripened bananas just laying around that you want to use up!  It’s also a wonderful treat for your weekend when you have family in town or you want an extra special treat or brunch!

It’s so weird…It’s been a long time since I’ve used yeast in any recipes!  I used to bake bread all the time in my very younger years, as a kid and when I lived on a farm.  We always made everything from scratch, from baby food to pasta to yeast rolls to cinnamon rolls!

Still made the usual cookies and brownie desserts, just nothing to do with yeast for years. I am a huge fan of quick breads, so I made a lot of quick breads!  But we finally made some homemade yeast rolls!

Ingredients You Need

Sweet Rolls

• fast acting yeast
• almond milk
• unsalted butter
• granulated sugar
• salt
• mashed ripe bananas 
• all-purpose flour

For the filling

• butter 
• granulated sugar
• ground cinnamon
• banana 
• pecans , rough or finely chopped (optional)

Cream Cheese Frosting

• unsalted butter 
• powdered sugar 
• cream cheese
• vanilla extract
• Pecans, chopped, optional

How to Make Banana Cinnamon Rolls  

1. In a large mixing bowl, heat the almond milk and 3 Tablespoons butter in the microwave in 30 sec increments, until warm and just melted. Let cool to 110 degrees. If milk mixture is too hot it will kill the yeast.
2. Sprinkle yeast on top of milk mixture and let activate for 10 minutes. Then add 1 tablespoon sugar, salt and stir. Next add in ½ cup mashed ripe banana and stir.
3. Add flour ½ cup at a time, stirring as you go, as the dough will be sticky. When it is too thick to stir, transfer to a lightly floured surface and knead for a minute or so, adding more flour as needed to form a ball. Only use as much flour as it will take.
4. Rinse out your mixing bowl, coat it with canola or olive oil, and add your dough ball back in seam side down.
5. Cover with plastic wrap and set in a warm place to rise for about 1 hour, or until doubled in size.
6. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough into a long rectangle ~¼ inch thick.

Adding the Filling and Making the Cinnamon Rolls

1. Brush with ¼ cup melted melted butter (reserve 1 tablespoon for top of rolls) and sprinkle with ⅓ cup sugar (minus 1 tablespoon sugar for top of rolls), cinnamon and nuts. Then add about 20 very thin banana slices so it’s easy to roll.
2. Slowly roll up the dough and place seam down. Start with left corner of long side of rectangle when rolling up.
3. Using a thread, or a sharp knife cut the dough into 1 – 1½ in slices. and place in lightly buttered baking pan. Brush the top with remaining 1 tablespoon melted butter and sprinkle with reserved tablespoon of sugar.
4. Cover with plastic wrap and set on top of the oven to let rise again while you start oven to preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
5. Once the oven is ready, bake rolls for 28-35 minutes or until slightly golden brown. Let cool for a few minutes, then frost with cream cheese frosting.

Cream Cheese Frosting

1. While they are baking combine frosting ingredients. Beat butter and cream cheese together, then add vanilla and beat again. Add powdered sugar ½ cup at a time until you reach desired consistency and sweetness. It should be fairly thick but still spreadable, Add more powdered sugar, or a little milk if needed to get the right texture.
2. Add pecans if desired.

Want it more Caramel flavored? You can also do ½ granulated sugar and ½ brown sugar if you want the rolls to be a little more caramel-ey.

Reheating cinnamon rolls that have been stored in the pantry or the refrigerator can be done by reheating them in the oven or even the microwave. If you’re going to reheat a batch in the oven, cover them with aluminum foil and bake them in a warm oven for around ten to fifteen minutes.  However, if you want it quickly, you can easily reheat one or two cinnamon rolls in the microwave for 30 seconds or so!  Enjoy!

Storing & Freezing Banana Rolls

• It is best to store cinnamon rolls in an airtight container to prevent them from drying out. They will last two days at normal room temperature, about seven days in the refrigerator, or up to two months in the freezer.
• Make sure you completely seal and if freezing, double wrap with saran wrap and tin foil.

Whatever you do, make these delish banana bread cinnamon rolls on a Saturday or when you’re craving something a little different that just normal cinnamon rolls! 

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Fluffy Banana Bread Cinnamon Rolls

Kim Lange

How long has it been since you made home-made cinnamon rolls? Fluffy Banana Bread Cinnamon Rolls are a must if it's been awhile! It's a wonderful treat for your weekend when you have family in town or you want an extra special treat or brunch! <3

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Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

rising time 1 hour hr

Course Breakfast, Brunch

Servings 12 Servings

Calories

Ingredients

  

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• 1 packet fast acting yeast (2 1/4 tsp)
• 1 cup almond milk
• 3 Tablespoons unsalted butter
• ⅓ cup sugar
• ¼ tsp salt
• 2 mashed ripe bananas + 1 banana for slicing thin to put in cinnamon rolls (2 ripe bananas = 1/2 cup)
• 2 ¾ cups flour

For the filling

• ¼ cup butter melted, reserve 1 tablespoon for top of rolls before baking
• ⅓ cup sugar , reserve 1 tablespoon for the top of rolls before baking
• 1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 1 banana for slicing thin to put in cinnamon rolls
• ½ cup pecans rough or finely chopped (optional)

Frosting

• 4 Tablespoons unsalted butter softened
• 2- 2 ½ cups powdered sugar
• 4 ounces cream cheese softened
• ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
• pecans chopped, optional

Instructions

 

• In a large mixing bowl, heat the almond milk and 3 Tablespoons butter in the microwave in 30 sec increments, until warm and just melted. Let cool to 110 degrees. If milk mixture is too hot it will kill the yeast.
• Sprinkle yeast on top of milk mixture and let activate for 10 minutes. Then add 1 Tbsp sugar, salt and stir. Next add in 1/2 cup mashed ripe banana and stir.
• Add flour 1/2 cup at a time, stirring as you go, as the dough will be sticky. When it is too thick to stir, transfer to a lightly floured surface and knead for a minute or so, adding more flour as needed to form a ball. Only use as much flour as it will take.
• Rinse out your mixing bowl, coat it with canola or olive oil, and add your dough ball back in seam side down.
• Cover with plastic wrap and set in a warm place to rise for about 1 hour, or until doubled in size.
• On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough into a long rectangle ~1/4 inch thick. Brush with 1/4 cup melted melted butter (reserve 1 tablespoon for top of rolls) and sprinkle with 1/3 cup sugar (minus 1 tablespoon sugar for top of rolls), cinnamon and nuts. Then add about 20 very thin banana slices so it's easy to roll.
• Slowly roll up the dough and place seam down. Start with left corner of long side of rectangle when rolling up.
• Using a thread, or a sharp knife cut the dough into 1 - 1½ in slices. and place in lightly buttered baking pan. Brush the top with remaining 1 Tbsp melted butter and sprinkle with reserved tablespoon of sugar.
• Cover with plastic wrap and set on top of the oven to let rise again while you start oven to preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Once the oven is ready, bake rolls for 28-35 minutes or until slightly golden brown. Let cool for a few minutes, then frost with cream cheese frosting.

Frosting

• While they are baking combine frosting ingredients. Beat butter and cream cheese together, then add vanilla and beat again. Add powdered sugar 1/2 cup at a time until you reach desired consistency and sweetness. It should be fairly thick but still spreadable, Add more powdered sugar, or a little milk if needed to get the right texture.
• Add pecans if desired.

Notes

You can also do 1/2 granulated sugar and 1/2 brown sugar if you want the rolls to be a little more caramel-ey.

Keyword banana, breakfast, cinnamon roll, cream cheese, yeast

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