The Unofficial Disney Parks COOKBOOK - Featuring Gaston's Giant Cinnamon Rolls By Ashley Craft - Adams Media

 

Every week this December, I will be featuring an amazing recipe from Ashley Craft's THE UNOFFICIAL DISNEY PARKS COOKBOOK!!

Today, I have Gaston's Giant Cinnamon Rolls (see below for the amazing recipe)

I absolutely love Disney and spending my summers in Disneyland Park here in SoCal where I live, and in Orlando, Florida where we have our vacation home, and even going to Tokyo Disney last Spring in Japan. 

So we are a Disney family for sure and love everything Disney especially the food!

Unfortunately with the pandemic, we are not able to enjoy visiting the parks, but thanks to my partners at ADAMS MEDIA an imprint of Simon & Schuster, I can bring the wonderful culinary delights of Disney to your home kitchen. If you are like me, I make a tradition of cooking with my teen daughter on weekends as our bonding time.

So from our family to yours, please enjoy the recipes, and look out for the other recipes coming your way....

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Excerpted from The Unofficial Disney Parks Cookbook by Ashley Craft. Copyright © 2020 by Simon & Schuster, Inc. Photography by Harper Point Photography. Used with permission of the publisher, Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. All rights reserved.








Gaston’s Giant Cinnamon Rolls


Fantasyland, Magic Kingdom


Disney Parks have sold cinnamon rolls for a long time—regular, boring-sized cinnamon rolls. But in 2012, they upped their cinnamon roll game when they introduced the Warm Cinnamon Roll to their line-up. It is about 8" square in size and is smothered in frosting and butterscotch topping. It is perfectly made for the man who eats five dozen eggs each day—or your whole family!





SERVES 8


For Dough


3⁄4 cup salted butter, melted, divided


1 1⁄2 cups whole milk


6 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour, divided


2 (1⁄4-ounce) packets active dry yeast


1⁄2 cup granulated sugar


1 teaspoon salt


1⁄2 cup room-temperature water


2 large eggs


1.‌Grease a 9"×13" pan with nonstick cooking spray and set aside.





2.‌To make the Dough: In a medium bowl, combine 1⁄2 cup melted butter and milk.





3.‌In the bowl of a stand mixer, add 2 1⁄2 cups flour, yeast, sugar, and salt. Add water, eggs, and butter mixture. Using the flat beater attachment, mix until well combined. Add remaining flour 1⁄2 cup at a time while mixing until Dough starts to form a ball.





4.‌Switch to the dough hook attachment and knead Dough on low speed 5 minutes.





5.‌Remove Dough from bowl, sprinkle some flour in bowl, and place Dough back in the same bowl. Let rise 10 minutes in a warm place.





For Filling


2 cups light brown sugar


2 tablespoons ground cinnamon


1 cup salted butter, softened


1.‌To make Filling: In a medium bowl, mix brown sugar, cinnamon, and butter together. Set aside.





2.‌Roll out Dough into a long rectangle, about 3' × 2'. Spread Filling evenly across the whole surface of the Dough. Starting at short end, roll Dough like a jelly roll. Make a cut in the center of the roll, and then cut about 6" from the center on either side to make 2 giant rolls.





3.‌Place both rolls swirl-edge down in prepared pan.





4.‌Drizzle remaining 1⁄4 cup melted butter over rolls. Allow rolls to rise at room temperature 30 minutes.





5.‌Preheat oven to 375˚F. Bake rolls 20 minutes, then cover loosely with foil and bake another 10 minutes.





For Cream Cheese Frosting


8 ounces cream cheese


1⁄4 cup salted butter, softened


2 cups confectioners’ sugar


1 teaspoon vanilla extract


3 tablespoons heavy cream


1.‌To make Cream Cheese Frosting: In a medium saucepan over medium heat, add cream cheese and butter. Combine and heat until melted, about 3 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in confectioners’ sugar. Add vanilla, cream, and salt. Stir, then set aside.





For Butterscotch Topping


1⁄2 cup light brown sugar


4 tablespoons salted butter, softened


1⁄2 cup heavy cream


1⁄4 teaspoon salt


1 teaspoon vanilla extract


1.‌To make Butterscotch Topping: In a separate medium saucepan over medium heat, add brown sugar, butter, and cream. Bring to a boil and boil 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Remove from heat. Add salt and vanilla. Set aside.





2.‌To serve, place each giant roll on a large plate. Drizzle cream cheese frosting in one direction along each roll’s swirl, then drizzle with butterscotch in the other direction.





COOKING TIP


The dough leftover on either end of the giant rolls need not be wasted! Make cuts about 1–2 inches along the extra roll. Lay swirl-side down in a glass 9" x 13" baking dish greased with cooking spray and bake about 20 minutes or until golden brown and cooked through.


About the Author






As a child who grew up in Anaheim, California, Ashley Craft could recite the Star Tours ride by heart, navigate the Park without a map, and fell asleep to the sound of Disneyland fireworks each night in her bedroom. After two internships at Walt Disney World and many, many more visits to the Disney Parks, Ashley is now one of the leading experts of Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Her popular blog, Ashley Crafted, is best known for featuring recipes inspired by Disney Park foods to help people recreate that Disney magic right in their own kitchens. Today, Ashley lives in Kansas with her husband, Danny, and three kids, Elliot, Hazel, and Clifford…but she still makes time to visit the Mouse. Learn more at AshleyCrafted.com.