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    Coffee Cinnamon Rolls with Maple Cream Cheese Icing

    Updated April 27, 2025 / By Holly Erickson & Natalie Mortimer

    These coffee cinnamon rolls with maple-cream cheese frosting have it all. They're gooey, tender, sweet, and loaded with freshly ground coffee beans to give you a bit of extra pep in your step.

    Coffee cinnamon rolls with maple cream cheese frosting

    The Perfect Rise-and-Shine Cinnamon Roll Recipe.

    We’ve taken everything you love about weekend brunch and rolled it all into one unique, sweet and sticky grown-up cinnamon roll! It’s the perfect combination of tender dough, maple and cream cheese, and coffee. Yes, you heard that correctly. We’ve added freshly-ground coffee beans straight into the cinnamon and sugar filling of these cinnamon rolls for a perfectly subtle and intriguing hint of coffee flavor right inside. In other words, yes, you’ll want to keep the kids AWAY from these cinnamon rolls. What better excuse to keep them all to yourself?

    To pull this recipe off successfully, we used our new Conical Burr Coffee Grinder from OXO. It measures and grinds the beans precisely, just how we like them!

    ground coffee, cinnamon and sugar sprinkled on to butter on dough
    Coffee Cinnamon Rolls rolled out and cut

    Did You Say Maple-Cream Cheese Frosting?

    It may be time for you to invest in a good quality coffee grinder to get that homemade brew just right. However, for the purposes of making these delicious Coffee Cinnamon Rolls with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting, the grind of your coffee beans doesn't matter too much as much as long as it’s not too fine (you want a bit of coarseness), but the freshness of your coffee beans most certainly does! Freshly-ground coffee beans will have a more assertive flavor, which is what you want—that delicious coffee bitterness to contrast with the rich, sweet maple cream cheese frosting that tops these coffee cinnamon rolls.

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    coffee grinder on a counter
    maple cream cheese frosting being made in a bowl

    How Do You Make Homemade Cinnamon Rolls?

    If you love cinnamon rolls, we can pretty much promise you that you’ll find these coffee cinnamon rolls to be pure perfection. Don’t let the recipe’s many steps intimidate you. It is so darn easy! Here’s how ya do it!

    1. Heat milk, oil, and sugar.
    2. Add the yeast followed by the flour, baking powder, soda and salt a few minutes later.
    3. Let the dough rise in a warm place before rolling it out.
    4. Roll the dough into a large rectangle.
    5. Spread the butter on the dough and load it up with sugar, cinnamon and coffee grounds!
    6. Roll, cut and place the rolls into a greased baking dish and place in the oven.
    7. Make your frosting while the rolls are baking.
    8. Frost and enjoy those ooey, gooey mapley cinnamon rolls!
    coffee cinnamon rolls baked
    maple cream cheese frosting being dolloped onto coffee cinnamon rolls
    Coffee Cinnamon Rolls With Maple Cream Cheese Icing in a baking dish
    Coffee cinnamon rolls with maple cream cheese frosting

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    Coffee Cinnamon Rolls With Maple Cream Cheese Icing on a plate

    You Put Coffee in Your Cinnamon Rolls?

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    Coffee Cinnamon Rolls with Maple Cream Cheese Icing Recipe

    Updated April 27, 2025

    By Holly Erickson & Natalie Mortimer

    • Serves:  12
    • Prep Time:  2 hrs 40 min
    • Cook Time:  20 min
    • Calories:  703
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    Description

    These coffee cinnamon rolls with maple-cream cheese frosting have it all. They're gooey, tender, sweet, and loaded with freshly ground coffee beans to give you a bit of extra pep in your step.

    Ingredients

    Dough

    • 2 cups whole milk
    • ½ cup vegetable oil
    • ½ cup sugar
    • 1 (.25-ounce) package active dry yeast
    • 4 ½ cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
    • ½ teaspoon baking powder
    • ½ teaspoon baking soda
    • 1 ½ teaspoons sea salt

    Filling

    • 1 cup salted butter, softened
    • 1 cup granulated sugar
    • 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
    • 2 tablespoons fresh coffee grounds

    Maple Cream Cheese Frosting

    • 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, room temperature
    • 2 ½ cups powdered sugar
    • ¼ cup whole milk
    • 3 tablespoons salted butter, melted
    • ½ teaspoon sea salt
    • 1 ½ teaspoons maple extract

    Method

    1. Make the dough. In a large saucepan, warm the milk, vegetable oil, and sugar over medium heat until it reaches 110°F (do not let the mixture boil). Turn off the heat. Sprinkle the yeast over top and let it sit until beginning to foam, about 2 minutes. Transfer the mixture to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook. Add 4 cups of flour and mix until incorporated. Cover the bowl with a clean kitchen towel and set aside in a warm place, until the dough looks bubbly and has risen, about an hour (Alternatively, you can add the flour directly to the milk mixture in the saucepan and mix the dough with a wooden spoon).

    2. Add the baking powder, baking soda, salt, and remaining ½ cup of flour and stir to combine. Use the dough right away or cover the bowl with plastic wrap and store in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. (Note: If the dough rises over the top of the bowl at any time, punch it down.

    3. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Using a lightly floured rolling pin, roll the dough into a large rectangle about 30 x 10 inches. Spread the butter evenly over the dough, leaving a 1-inch border around the edges. Sprinkle the cinnamon, sugar, and coffee grounds over the butter.

    4. Starting with the long side closest to you, pull the edge up and over the filling and carefully roll the dough away from you into a log, keeping it fairly tight. Pinch the edge to seal. Using a very sharp knife, cut through the roll, making about 20 rolls, each about 1½-inches wide. 

    5. Place the rolls cut-side up into a generously greased 9 x 13 inch baking dish and a 9-inch pie pan, keeping about 1-inch between each roll. Cover with a thin kitchen towel and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, about 20-30 minutes. 

    6. Preheat the oven to 375°F with a rack in the center position. 

    7. Bake the rolls for 15 to 20 minutes, or until golden brown and cooked through.

    8. Meanwhile, make the frosting. Place the cream cheese, powdered sugar, milk, butter, salt, and maple extract in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on high speed until fully combined and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Adjust the maple flavoring to taste. 

    9. Once the rolls have cooled slightly, generously coat with frosting. Serve warm. 

    Nutrition Info

    • Per Serving
    • Amount
    • Calories 703
    • Protein 7 g
    • Carbohydrates 89 g
    • Total Fat 36 g
    • Dietary Fiber 2 g
    • Cholesterol 73 mg
    • Sodium 527 mg
    • Total Sugars 54 g

    Coffee Cinnamon Rolls with Maple Cream Cheese Icing

    Questions & Reviews

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    • Trystan

      How much would the recipe be affected if i let them rest for 45 mins instead of the hour?

      We'd recommend letting them rise the entire hour.

    • Julia

      Could I use espresso powder for coffee grounds? 1:1 replacement?

      Theoretically yes, but we haven't tested it to know if it would be a 1:1 replacement or not.

    • Jessica

      Could you use maple syrup in this recipe instead of sugar and maple extract?

      I've never tested it that way. You will definitely need the sugar in it, but adding a little real maple syrup could be a good substitute for the maple flavoring it you don't have that on hand.

    • Christa

      When you make these the night before, do you just make the dough and then fill, roll, cut and bake in the morning? Or do you/can you keep the pan of ready-to-bake rolls in the fridge overnight? Do you let them come to room temp or bake direct from the fridge?

      Either way! As long as you keep the dough refrigerated, it won't rise very much. So you can roll them and let them rise a little, then put them in the refrigerator or just keep the dough in the fridge and roll it out in the morning. If you do that, I would bring it to room temp before rolling.

    • Mikayla

      Omg. These look amazing!! I MUST make these tonight!! (I also MUST make sure I don’t eat them all myself in one sitting.... because I really could)

      I prob could too. ; )

    • Matt

      Made these cinnamon rolls and they are amazing. We aren't fans of maple so we just made vanilla icing, but they are delicious. Very sweet, but well balanced with the coffee. I'm not even a fan of cinnamon rolls and these are great.

      Thanks Matt, we are so glad you enjoyed them!

    • Lindsey

      My cousin made these for a family holiday a few celebrations back and has continued to oblige our requests that they be at EVERY family gathering. Thank you for such a wonderful recipe; they've quickly become a much-loved tradition :)

      Wow! This is such amazing news! Thank you Lindsey, we are so happy we could help your family create a tradition!

    • Chaka

      These were a hit! Delicious and moist, and a wonderful glaze to top it all off! Because each oven works differently, it took my rolls about 25-30 minutes to cook thoroughly. But, I also subbed 3 out of the 4.5 cups of flour for Bread flour. Will definitely be making this again!

      Great! So glad you liked them!