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.
If you love this easy recipe, please write a five star review in the comments. Don’t forget to save this recipe by sharing on Facebook and Pinterest!
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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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Just wanted to say, thank you! I made a simple confectioner’s sugar, vanilla, and milk glaze from a cinnamon roll recipe and I knew I didn’t want to use it. Yours came up and it’s actually the same recipe + the butter and a little less milk. I wouldn’t have gotten these ratios right by myself. Thank you!
It came out perfect when I whipped it with a hand mixer!
Hi, no hate or anything, I love your website and your other recipes, but, my icing turned brown and WAY too sugary. I followed the instructions perfectly and everything, I don’t know what happened and how it turned wrong. In my opinion, please put less sugary, oh and something else, it was very, very watery.
Have a nice day, and please, if you read this, add LESS sugar. THX.
I’m sorry you didn’t enjoy it. What kind of powdered sugar did you use? Was it organic? Also, the vanilla you use can effect the color of anything you add it to. I highly recommend avoiding imitation vanilla. Pure vanilla extract is great, homemade vanilla is even better as it doesn’t effect color.
I give it 5 stars, perfect
Thank you, Donna!
Is it possible to substitute powdered sugar with white granulated sugar?
It is, but it won’t have the same luxurious texture. You can also pulse white granulated sugar in a food processor to achieve the same consistency.
I don’t have cream cheese but I still wanna make it. Do you think this would taste exactly like Cinnabon?
Or I can use condensed milk? Which one would be better?
I highly recommend you make it as directed – you won’t be disappointed. Enjoy!