Sweets are part of daily meals or desserts served during the holy month of Ramadan in Morocco. In case you are looking for new recipes to freshen your table – cinnamon rolls are what you are looking for.

If you have a sweet tooth, the fluffy cinnamon rolls can be your main course for dessert during or after iftar.  While they look complicated, they are surely doable and here is a shortcut to how you can make this happen:

What you need 

– 1 cup and ¼ of warm milk

-4 tablespoon of sugar (for dough)

-1 tablespoon of yeast

-¼ cup of oil

3  and ½ cups of flour

1 baking powder

A pinch of salt

¼ cup sugar (for filling)

2 tablespoons of cinnamon

A teaspoon of starch

¼ cup of sugar (for cream sauce)

½ cup of cream cheese

½ cup of heavy cream

Half cup of half melted butter

The ingredients will be divided into three categories: ingredients used for filling, ingredients used for dough making, and ingredients for topping sauce.

Let’s start with making the dough!

Take a large bowl, and pour your warm milk and the yeast. Let the mixture rest for five minutes before adding oil, flour, baking powder, salt and mix all together with a stirring spoon.

When all is mixed, take your dough and knead it really well. Don’t feel concerned if it is sticky, this is how it should be – don’t dare to add any more flour unless you want to eat bricks rather than cinnamon rolls.

The next step requires you to transfer your dough from the first bowl to another one that is clean and greased with a little bit of cooking oil.

Make your dough in a ball shape and let it rest and rise for over 40 minutes.

You can do other errands as it rest or you can carry on making the other ingredients until it’s all ready to go.

Bring a small bowl now to put the corn scratch, the cinnamon, and sugar all together; mix them well and let them rest nearby.

Check your dough after 40 minutes or more – no rush. Is it rising? If yes, now it’s time for more kneading.

Clean a big space from your kitchen counter and spread a little bit of flour on the counter floor. Put the dough and knead it a little bit. 

Now use some floor on a dough roller and use it to flatten your dough. Keep your dough a little bit thicker (not too thick though) to get a luffy texture after cooking.

Spread the butter all over your flatten dough. Make sure all parts of the dough are covered with melted butter. Remember the bowel where you put sugar, cinnamon, and the corn scratch? Now it’s time to use that.

Use your fingers or a spoon to spread the sugar and cinnamon you have all over the flatten dough and roll it. 

Prepare a cooking pan that can go to the oven, and grease it with butter. Cut the rolls into three or four centimeters wide. You can cut them smaller if you want as many cinnamon rolls as possible. Put the cooking pan in a hot oven for cooking. The cooking should last15 minutes, and better put your oven at a 180 degree temperature. And stay in the kitchen to monitor the rolls cooking. Don’t panic if your dough rises further – that’s great news.

Make sure to remove the cinnamon rolls once they look golden and cooked.

One last step left: Now take a small milk pan and put it on your stove, add the cheese cream, the sugar, and the heavy cream and stir all together until you get a cheesy, creamy sauce. 

Pour the cream on top of the cooked cinnamon rolls and enjoy them to the fullest.

And please note: Cinnamon rolls are cinnamon rolls only if you use cinnamon; but if you don’t like cinnamon, you can definitely use sweet cocoa or chocolate powder as an alternative.

Bon Appetit!

Read Also: Traditional Moroccan Food Guide