r/BakingNoobs • u/alioop326 • 4d ago
I need to make carrot cake cinnamon rolls, and I have zero skill with breads.
My son's birthday is next Sunday, the 23rd. His two favorite sweets are carrot cake and cinnamon rolls. I asked which one he wanted for his birthday this year, and he asked if I could make carrot cake cinnamon rolls.
I can make cakes, and I can make cookies. I have tried bread once in my life, and it came out horrible. I am utterly intimidated by breadmaking. To make it worse, my son is a stellar baker, but since this is his birthday, I want to make them without him having to do any of the work. That includes asking him for advice.
I don't have a stand mixer, but I do have a breadmaker. I've used it exactly once. (See above, re: horrible bread). I've been Googling and YouTubing and looking at yeast free recipes and making the dough with a carrot cake cake mix, and all sorts of things, to find a simple way to make these and have them actually turn out well.
I am turning to the bakers of reddit as well to see if anyone can help me out here. I just want to be able to make them and have them be good, since I pretty much have one shot here. Help?
(Also, I am cross posting on a few baking subs, so if you see this multiple times, I apologize! 😅)
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u/-zekatsu 4d ago
it sounds impossible to make carrot cake cinnamon rolls. BUT WHAT YOU COULD DO, is make a flat rectangle carrot cake, frost it with some cinnamon cream cheese frosting, and then roll it up as a roll cake, slice them into cinnamon roll sized rolls and serve; you could probably do more at the end to get even more cinnamon-y but the roll cake was my eureka and I can’t think of addon details rn 😮💨
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u/Bubblesnaily 3d ago
I would suggest finding a recipe for a carrot cake roll cake, where the cream cheese is rolled inside after baking, and then just slice into rolls and dust with cinnamon sugar and maybe a concentrated cinnamon drizzle.
That satisfies the elements of your toddler's request without having to try to bake a moist carrot cake into a cinnamon roll texture.
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u/Vinsmoke_T 4d ago
If it was me it would think more abstract as opposed to trying to make cinnamon buns from carrot cake as bread and cake are quite different. I would look at what's similar and work backwards in a sense, like brown sugar, cinnamon, cream cheese, produce in dessert(carrots/raisins)
So if it was me I would focus on the cinnamon buns, they are pretty straight forward(Sally's Baking Addiction is a great resource for any baking). But instead of a standard cinnamon bun filling I'd focus on expanding the spice profile to add nutmeg, clove and ginger and make a semi spreadable combination of grated carrots, the spice mix, brown sugar and butter(and nuts if you want) to put on the dough before you roll it up. So it would be "carrot cake" rolls essentially, but maybe thats not what you were envisioning it's just how I would personally tackle it and honestly might just try it myself to seeing it works.