Nutty Nutella Cinnamon Rolls with Creamy Nutella Cream Cheese Glaze

Done in about an hour and a half. Quick for a home made bread treat.

The bread dough ingredients are basic and simple. Here they are: (Note, this recipe can be easily doubled for a full pan of rolls)

• 1 ¾  Cups Warm Milk (water can be substituted)
• 1 Tablespoon Yeast
• 1  Tablespoon Sugar
• ½  teaspoon Salt
• 1 ½  Tablespoon Oil
• ½  cup sugar
• 2 ¾ - 3 cups flour (use approximately 2 ½  cups all purpose flour and 1/2 cup self rising flour)

Cinnamon Roll ingredients

• ½ cup Nutella
• ½ cup butter,cubed,softened 
• ½ cup chopped pecans
• Cinnamon to generously Sprinkle

Prep – Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

First:  Add yeast and then sprinkle the sugar over the 1 3/4 cups of milk.  Stir until sugar dissolves.  Let it sit for about five minutes until you see the yeast get all bubbly on top.
Next:  Stir in the salt, oil, sugar and flour.
Then:  Knead the dough for a few minutes until it is smooth and pulls away from the bowl

Then cover your bowl with a warm wet towel or one of those plastic shower cap-like covers for food and let the dough sit in a warm room for about 15 - 25 minutes.
If you have a warming drawer in your oven, put your bowl in the warming drawer on the lowest setting.

Dough ball before the raise

Dough ball after the raise - in the bowl with the shower cap -like plastic wrap

To make the Nutty Nutella Cinnamon Rolls:

While the dough is rising, put the Nutella in a microwave safe bowl (I used a 1 cup pyrex measuring cup).  Cube the butter.  Add the cubed butter  to the Nutella.  Just before you are ready to get the risen dough, put the Nutella/butter mixture into the microwave for about 20 seconds to melt the butter and soften the Nutella.  Stir until combined and smooth.  Put the dough onto a pastry mat and roll into a rectangle.  Spread the Nutella mixture onto the rectangle with a spatula.  Generously sprinkle with cinnamon.  Sprinkle the nuts onto the cinnamon and Nutella/butter mixture and press into the dough.  Roll into a log.  Cut with a sharp knife into 1 inch slices and place cut side up on a baking stone or baking pan.  Cover with plastic wrap or a warm towel.  (I like to use the showercap- like plastic food covers) Let rise in a warm room for about 15 minutes.     Bake for 20 - 25 minutes in a 375 degree oven until light brown.  Rotate the pan midway through the baking process.

Cubed butter

Nutella

Butter and Nutella

Parchment paper on baking stone

Dough with Nutella and cinnamon

Dough Log

Slicing Rolls

Rolls ready for oven

Just out of the oven

Creamy Nutella Cream Cheese Glaze:

4 Tablespoons Nutella/butter mixture from recipe above

3 oz. cream cheese , softened

10 Tablespoons Whipping Cream

2 Tablespoons Powdered Sugar (add more powdered sugar for a sweeter glaze)

Mix all ingredients in a bowl and whip until desired consistency.  You may glaze the rolls just after they come out of the oven or wait until they cool.

Glaze/Frosting

No Glaze

Glazed