Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls

This is a variation of the sourdough bread recipe, just add butter to the dough and some sugary-cinnamon goodness inside

RECIPE:

*3 cups all purpose flour

*1 cup sourdough starter

*1 cup warm water

*1/2 teaspoon salt

*1/2 cup butter (melted)

 FILLING

*1/2 cup brown sugar

*1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

*1/4 cup raisins

Mix up your dough and kneed it for a bit. Let the dough sit in a covered bowl to rise for 9-12 hours.  Then punch it down and kneed again. Roll your dough flat and add some warm butter with your hands, just smear it all over the top.  Shake some brown sugar and cinnamon over the butter and add your raisins, nuts, other fillings to the dough. 

Roll your dough up over itself and form a log.

Cut your rolls from the "log" into 2 inch pieces.

Place the rolls far enough apart to allow for rising.  I got about 12 rolls in my large glass baking pan.
You want to bake them in a tray or pan with a lip because the sugar tends to run and make caramel at the bottom of the pan.

The above picture is before the rise, and the below picture is after the bake.  Look how close they baked together!  Let the rolls rise for a few hours, they will continue to rise while baking. Bake at *375 degrees for about 25-30 minutes or until light brown. 

Add some frosting on the top when the rolls are cooled down enough.

These cinnamon rolls are not as sweet as the traditional cinnamon rolls that you would get from a bakery. They still have their sourdough flavor with that hint of cinnamon and sugar. 

If you want to make cinnamon bread.....keep reading.

I was getting lazy and didn't want to cut up all the cinnamon rolls so I decided to make a cinnamon roll bread.  I just rolled out the dough like I was making cinnamon rolls and added the butter and sugar then rolled it up and crammed it into a loaf pan. 

I scored the top of the loaf so the bread would make a nice traditional loaf shape and not be a mushroom top.  That is what I hoped for. The bread expanded so much while baking it made its own shape.

The bread had lots of swirls in it but most of the filling was at the bottom.