Go Back

Pumpkin Cinnamon Roll Recipe

We have taken our favorite regular cinnamon rolls and elevate them into fluffy pumpkin cinnamon rolls with a soft, enriched pumpkin dough and an indulgent maple cream cheese frosting.
Print Recipe Pin Recipe
Prep Time 3 hours 30 minutes
Course Breakfast
Cuisine Dutch
Servings 12 rolls

Ingredients
  

BRIOCHE DOUGH

  • 4 cups Bread Flour 500 g
  • ½ cup Milk 100 g
  • ⅔ cup pumpkin puree 150 g
  • 2 Eggs
  • ¼ cup Sugar 50 g
  • 1½ Tbsp Instant Yeast 15 g
  • 1 tsp salt 6 g
  • ½ tsp ginger
  • ½ tsp nutmeg
  • 1 stick salted butter 113 g room temp. and cubed

CINNAMON SUGAR FILLING

  • 2 tbsp cinnamon
  • 1 cup brown sugar 200 g
  • 1 tbsp cornstarch

Butter for spreading

  • 1 stick salted butter 113 g

CREAM CHEESE BUTTER CREAM

  • 8 oz. cream cheese
  • 1 stick salted butter 113 g
  • 2 cups powdered sugar 240 g
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract or maple
  • 2 Tbsp strong coffee 1 shot of espresso

Instructions
 

Pumpkin Brioche Dough

  • Add all ingredients into your stand mixer.
  • Mix for 15- 20 min. until dough cleans the side of the bowl and appears smooth.
  • Transfer to a greased bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Let rise until doubled, should be about an hour.
  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Make filling

  • Mix Cinnamon Sugar filling ingredients together until well incorporated.

Assemble Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls

  • Deflate your dough and transfer to a lightly floured work surface.
  • Using a rolling pin roll your dough into a 10 inch by 18 inch rectangle.
  • Cover your dough with the softened butter. Then top the butter with cinnamon sugar filling. Spread on the entire rectangle, except the bottom one inch.
  • Starting at the top of your dough, roll the dough toward you until you reach the other side. Once you have come to the end, seal the roll out by pinching the dough at the seam.
  • Cut 10-12 regular sized rolls.
  • Transfer rolls to a baking pan lined with greased parchment, evenly spacing them about 1 inch from each other in every direction.
  • Let rise for 30 minutes.
  • Bake at 350 degrees F for to 25- 30 minutes, or until the internal temperature is 186 degree F.

Make Cream Cheese Icing

  • Add softened butter and softened cream cheese into a stand mixer with paddle attachment. Beat for 5 minutes.
  • Add powdered sugar, maple extract and coffee and beat for another 5 minutes.

Enjoy!

  • Remove from oven, ice with cream cheese frosting and enjoy!
Keyword cinnamon roll recipe, cinnamon rolls, cinnamon rolls recipe, pumpkin cinnamon roll, pumpkin recipe, pumpkin recipes