This creamy Cinnamon Roll Icing is made with 4 staple ingredients in 3 minutes. It turns homemade or store bought cinnamon rolls into the ultimate breakfast treat! This Cinnamon Roll Glaze seeps into the rolls making each bite absolutely amazing! One you learn how to make Cinnamon Roll Icing, you’ll never buy again!
One of our favorite weekend treats are Easy Cinnamon Rolls. While Chris and I often enjoy it with Cream Cheese Icing, the girls prefer their Cinnamon Roll Icing without cream cheese. Either way they’re an amazing way to kick off a Sunday!
We’ve been making this simple Cinnamon Roll Glaze for years. It’s the perfect compliment to any cinnamon roll. This glaze is a great way to elevate store bought cinnamon rolls. They never seem to give you enough icing, do they?!
Easy Cinnamon Roll Glaze
This Cinnamon Roll Icing is made with just 4 ingredients and takes less than 3 minutes to make. It’s made with staple ingredients, making it easy to make on a whim. Ingredients include powdered sugar (also known as confectioner’s sugar), butter, milk and vanilla.
Cinnamon Roll Glaze isn’t just for cinnamon rolls though, it’s also great for dipping muffins into! You can drizzle it over cakes, pound cakes, breads and so much more. Once you have a bite, you’ll want to put it on just about every baked treat. It can make the even the most basic treat taste decadent!
How to Make Cinnamon Roll Icing
- Melt butter.
- In a mixing bowl, combine powdered sugar, butter, vanilla and milk.
- Blend until smooth and pour over warm rolls.
It spreads on your rolls effortlessly and seeps down into them making every bite amazing. This recipe makes perfect amount of Cinnamon Roll Glaze for 10-12 large rolls or 24 miniature rolls (like my Easy Cinnamon Rolls recipe).
I know not everyone likes to drench their cinnamon rolls in Cinnamon Roll Glaze like I do. If you prefer a drizzle, pour your glaze / icing into a ziplock bag. Cut off a corner to create a drizzle.
You can also use an inexpensive squeeze bottle. I love these for glazes, sour cream on tacos and so much more! Of course an icing bag always works, too!
If you prefer your Cinnamon Roll Icing a little less sweet, just add powdered sugar one tablespoon at a time. You can adjust and taste test to your preference.
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Cinnamon Roll Icing (Cinnamon Roll Glaze)
Ingredients
- 2 cup powdered sugar aka confectioner's sugar
- 2 tablespoon butter melted
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 tablespoon milk can substitute with heavy cream or half and half
Instructions
- Combine powdered sugar, melted butter, vanilla and milk in a large mixing bowl until smooth.
- Pour over warm rolls and spread.
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I tried this recipe and it tasted horrible. This wasted my ingredients at home.
I’d like to know more about your experience so I can help you problem solve – there are over 55 positive reviews and it’s a recipe we make often, so I believe something is amiss. Did you use vanilla extract? Did you make any substitutions or use organic powdered sugar?
So delicious on cinnamon rolls but I have leftovers. Can this be saved for later? If so, how long?
Depending on the freshness of your milk! I recommend 3 days, covered refrigerated.
This is simply amazing! My incredibly picky daughter took a bite and suggested I write a book called “Things Zoë will eat” with this as the first recipe 😉
We have also made as shortbread topping by subbing the vanilla with McCormick cake extract and adding raspberries:) Thank you!
😂 I love it! I’m glad she liked it. It would be so wonderful with raspberries, I’ll have to try it myself!
Comes out perfect everytime
Made this icing recipe for my homemade cinnamon rolls, and it tastes so amazing and perfect!! I usually make delicious cream cheese icing, but was out of cream cheese, so I had to search for an icing recipe without cream cheese. I’m so glad I found this one; I actually like this recipe better than my cream cheese recipe! Thank you so much for posting this.