Katie Lee Biegel Dishes On Her Epic Holiday Cinnamon Roll Recipe & More Traditions (Exclusive)

Katie Lee Biegel is ever tapping into her Southern comfortableness upbringing with her delicious and unsocial recipes, particularly astir the holidays! With her grandmother’s dependable successful the backmost of her mind, the apical cook revealed successful an EXCLUSIVE interrogation with HollywoodLife astir however she brings her Southern traditions into her vacation recipes, portion besides upgrading them with her own idiosyncratic touches. “I decidedly similar to support things accepted astir the holidays, and not stray excessively acold from the classics. Like, my grandma would beryllium shocked if she knew I was making brussel sprouts successful a salad!” Katie Lee laughed portion chatting with HL. “However, she ever believed successful a colorful plate, truthful I decidedly unrecorded by that and marque definite it has 80% vegetables.”

She recalled spending clip astatine her grandmother’s location for holidays portion increasing up successful West Virginia, and however the matriarch inspired her emotion for cooking. “My grandma was the astir astonishing cook, and she made it look wholly effortless,” Katie Lee said, portion chatting astir reducing accent and utilizing cooking arsenic therapy, successful concern with Sub-Zero, Wolf and Cove.

Now, The Kitchen prima has a toddler of her own, whose palate she says it not arsenic divers arsenic she’d similar it to be, but the cook revealed that, inspired by her grandma, the 2 commencement their time with a vessel of fruit. “My grandma would besides commencement the time with a effect vessel each morning, truthful that’s however I got started with it. It’s a bully mode to commencement the time with immoderate vitamins and antioxidants,” she told HL. “Iris is simply a small spot of a picky eater, but she’s a toddler truthful it’s to beryllium expected, but I similar to person astatine slightest 1 happening that I’m cooking that I cognize she’s going to privation to eat, arsenic well.”

Katie Lee Biegel. (Courtesy of Sub-Zero, Wolf & Cove)

Also inspired by her precocious grandma — Katie Lee’s Holiday Cinnamon Rolls! The classical look is spiced up with Katie Lee’s homemade dough and extra-gooey cinnamon frosting. See the afloat look beneath and indulge this twelvemonth connected Christmas greeting with this saccharine treat!

Cinnamon Rolls

Ingredients for Cinnamon Rolls:
1/4 cupful lukewarm water
One 1 1/4-ounce bundle instant yeast (2 1/4 teaspoons)
1 cupful positive 1 spoon sweetener 1 ample egg, lightly beaten 1/4 cupful canola oil
2 teaspoons kosher brackish 1/2 cupful acold water
1/2 cupful boiling water
4 cups all-purpose flour, positive 1/2 cupful oregon much arsenic needed
2 tablespoons crushed cinnamon
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

Ingredients for Icing:
1 cupful confectioners’ sugar
2 tablespoons beverage oregon orangish juice

Directions:
For the cinnamon rolls:

• • In the vessel of a basal mixer fitted with a dough hook, premix the lukewarm h2o with the yeast and 1 spoon sugar. Set speech for astir 5 minutes, until the substance starts to thicken and bubble slightly. (If the substance does not commencement to thicken and bubble slightly, the yeast is not working. Check the expiration day connected the yeast and commencement over.)
  • In a ample bowl, disturbance unneurotic 1/2 cupful sugar, the egg, lipid and salt. Mix successful the acold h2o and past the boiling water. Add this to the yeast substance and disturbance until good blended. With the instrumentality connected debased speed, dilatory adhd successful 4 cups of flour until incorporated.
  • Knead successful the mixer connected debased velocity for astir 5 minutes until smooth, adding successful the other 1/2 cupful flour oregon much arsenic needed truthful the dough isn’t excessively sticky. Put the dough into a cleanable ample bowl. Cover with integrative wrapper and refrigerate until doubled successful size, astir 3 hours.
  • Meanwhile, harvester the remaining 1/2 cupful sweetener with the cinnamon successful a tiny bowl. Grease a 9-by-13-inch baking crockery with astir 1 tablespoonful of the melted food utilizing a pastry brush.
  • Punch down the dough and spot it connected a lightly floured surface. Using a rolling pin, rotation it into a rectangle astir 20 by 10 inches, with the agelong borderline facing you. Using the pastry brush, dispersed 1/4 cupful of the melted food implicit the apical of the dough. Sprinkle the cinnamon-sugar substance evenly implicit the dough.
  • Roll up the dough, starting with the agelong borderline facing you, into a choky cylinder. Gently compression the cylinder to seal it. Use a crisp weapon to chopped the dough into 12 adjacent rounds. Place the rounds, cut-side down, into the prepared baking dish. There volition beryllium immoderate abstraction successful betwixt the rounds. Brush the tops of the rolls with the remaining 1 tablespoonful melted butter. Cover the crockery tightly with integrative wrapper and let the dough to emergence successful a lukewarm spot for 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Bake the rolls until golden, 40 to 45 minutes.

For the icing: Meanwhile, premix the confectioners’ sweetener with the beverage successful a tiny bowl. When the rolls travel retired of the oven, drizzle the icing implicit the blistery rolls. Serve portion warm.

Cook’s Note
This look tin besides beryllium made without a basal mixer. Knead by manus connected a lightly floured aboveground for 8 to 10 minutes. If the dough is hard to rotation out, let it to travel to country somesthesia for 20 to 30 minutes. If you similar much icing connected your rolls, treble the icing recipe.

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