How to make icing with powdered sugar for cinnamon rolls

Melt-in-your-mouth, cream cheese cinnamon roll icing is the perfect topping for your family’s homemade cinnamon roll recipe. It’s also delicious drizzled on cookies or coffee cakes.

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How to Make Cinnamon Roll Icing
Maple Frosting or Vanilla Frosting
How Many Rolls Does This Recipe Frost?
How do you make cinnamon roll icing without using cream cheese?
Tools to Make Cinnamon Roll Frosting
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What is the icing made of on cinnamon rolls?
How do you make suger icing?
Does icing go on cinnamon rolls before or after baking?
Should you put icing on hot cinnamon rolls?

Our homemade cinnamon rolls have quickly risen to be our top post since 2017. It was a recipe the girls were hesitant to share, but they are so glad they did! It’s exciting to see you all making these rolls and sharing your successes with the recipe that we know and love.

Although we love our cinnamon rolls (so much that we made GIANT cinnamon rolls), we know many of you have your own family recipes that you can’t part with. If you’re looking for an easy cinnamon roll frosting to top your own cinnamon bun recipe or store-bought cinnamon buns, this cream cheese icing for cinnamon rolls is the answer.

How to Make Cinnamon Roll Icing

Our favorite cinnamon roll frosting is a simple blend of cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar and flavoring. These four ingredients blend together to be melt-in-your-mouth, sweet perfection.

The most important tip for this easy cinnamon roll frosting is to be sure the butter and cream cheese are softened at room temperature. If you melt butter, the frosting won’t have a good texture. Simply use the butter at room temperature. This will give your frosting the best creamy texture.

Maple Frosting or Vanilla Frosting

We love to use maple extract in our cinnamon roll glaze, but if you’d like, you can use vanilla extract, or really any other flavoring you like best.

How Many Rolls Does This Recipe Frost?

This makes the ideal amount for a 9×13 rectangle pan of 12-15 cinnamon rolls. If you prefer just a drizzling of frosting, it will of course cover more.

Storage

Because this frosting is cream cheese based, you’ll want to store it in the refrigerator until you use it. If you have leftovers, you can freeze it for up to 2 months.

To thaw the frosting, move it to the refrigerator and let it sit in there overnight. Please beware of microwaving the frosting to defrost it. It can melt easily and lose it’s creaminess.

How do you make cinnamon roll icing without using cream cheese?

Although we love cream cheese, we realize you may not. You can make a simple vanilla buttercream frosting or powdered sugar glaze if you’d like.

Servings 12

Prep Time 10 minutes

Total Time 10 minutes

6 ounces cream cheese (softened)
1/3 cup salted butter (softened)
2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 tablespoon maple extract (or vanilla)

In a medium mixing bowl, combine the softened cream cheese and butter using a hand mixer. Blend well.
Add in your favorite extract and the powdered sugar. Beat until combined.
After the cinnamon rolls are done baking in the oven and are cooled, spread the frosting over the tops. Put a few sprinkles on top if you'd like.
Store any leftover frosting in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

The calories shown are based on the frosting being divided 12 ways, with 1 serving being 1/12 of the frosting. Since different brands of ingredients have different nutritional information, the calories shown are just an estimate.

Tools to Make Cinnamon Roll Frosting

Hand mixer: I don’t pull out my stand mixer for this recipe. It makes a small amount so a hand mixer works perfectly.
Maple Extract: Our favorite flavoring!

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What is the icing made of on cinnamon rolls?

Easy Cinnamon Roll Glaze Ingredients include powdered sugar (also known as confectioner's sugar), butter, milk and vanilla. Cinnamon Roll Glaze isn't just for cinnamon rolls though, it's also great for dipping muffins into! You can drizzle it over cakes, pound cakes, breads and so much more.

How do you make suger icing?

Instructions.

First take 1 cup sugar, add it to mixer jar. Next add cornflour to it..

Blend well to a fine powder, it should be very fine. But make sure not to let the mixer jar get very hot. ... .

Next, cool down a bit then add this to a fine sieve. Sieve it well. ... .

Finally yes homemade icing sugar ready..

Does icing go on cinnamon rolls before or after baking?

Simply heat the oven to 400° F (or 375° F for a nonstick pan), place the rolls in a greased round pan with the cinnamon top up, bake for 13–17 minutes or until golden brown, and spread the delicious icing on top.

Should you put icing on hot cinnamon rolls?

Let Rolls Cool Before Icing Let the rolls cool for 5 to 10 minutes before icing. If the rolls are too hot, the icing will tragically ooze right off and into the bottom of the pan. A warm roll, however, will let the icing easily spread over the top and also set in place before serving.