Easy Cinnamon Roll Icing Recipe without cream cheese

This Cinnamon roll icing recipe without cream cheese will help you make delicious, vanilla flavored cinnamon roll icing in a quick and easy method. You can make it in three minutes and you will need only four ingredients to make this delicious icing.

Pair it with Quick, Squishy Soft Cinnamon rolls, that requires only one proofing and so you can enjoy in less than two hours!

Why you will love this Cinnamon Roll Icing Recipe made without cream cheese

• This is a very quick cinnamon roll icing recipe. It will take only 3 minutes to make this cinnamon roll icing.
• You don’t need any special equipments to make this cinnamon roll icing and you will need only 4 ingredients.
• You can make it thinner or thicker by adjusting the amount of milk.
• The recipe is customizable: You can make the cinnamon roll frosting more creamy by substituting milk with heavy cream.

Ingredients

• Powdered Sugar: 195 g or 1.5 cups
• Melted Butter: 42 g or 3 tbsp
• Vanilla Extract: 5ml or 1 tsp
• Milk or Heavy cream : 30-60 ml or 2-4 tbsp

How to make Cinnamon roll icing without cream cheese

You can make this no cream cheese cinnamon roll icing in 2 steps

1. Whisk together all the ingredients in a bowl until pale in color
2. Add more milk to get the icing to the desired consistency

In to a bowl, add the powdered sugar, vanilla extract, melted butter and two tablespoons of milk.

Whisk and combine them all together.

Right after mixing, the icing will be dense in texture. Whisk it until it’s color is pale and the texture is less dense.

If you like your icing to be of spreadable consistency, this is the right stage to use it.

But I am not stopping here; because I like more creamy, milky and less sweet cinnamon roll icon g that will melt and soak are the cinnamon rolls. I like to reserve some(around 2 tablespoon) of this thick icing to spread on our cinnamon rolls later.

Now, add more milk until the icing reaches the desired consistency.

If you are using heavy cream instead of milk you may need to add a little more (3 tablespoon, instead of 2 tablespoon), as heavy cream is thicker than milk.

You can also use half and half instead of milk.

What can be used instead of milk, while making vanilla cinnamon roll icing.

If you don’t want to use regular milk or heavy cream, you can use almond milk or oat milk instead.

We can make this quick and easy cinnamon roll icing by adding water instead of milk. But the icing will be slightly translucent and will not be as creamy as, when we make it with milk.

For making this soft and fluffy cinnamon rolls, I have used quick and easy cinnamon rolls recipe that needs only one proofing and so we can make them in less than two hours.

Pour in the icing over the warm cinnamon rolls.

The icing will melt and seep into the layers and soak all the rolls. The cinnamon rolls will be squishy soft and moistened with luscious, rich and creamy icing.

Serve them warm and if you want more icing, double frost it with the reserved icing.

These cinnamon rolls with no cream cheese frosting is so good. They are filled with vanilla flavor and warm comforting aroma of cinnamon.

This vanilla icing for cinnamon rolls is sufficient for 12 cinnamon rolls. You can half or double this “no cream cheese cinnamon roll icing”, according to how small or big, your batch of cinnamon rolls. For big batch, I recommend you to use hand mixer or stand mixer to whisk as it will be difficult to do it by hand.

Enjoy the warm cinnamon rolls!

Tips for making the best cinnamon roll icing without cream cheese

To make the icing thinner, you can add more milk (by adding little at a time; one tablespoon or so).

I like to whisk it until it becomes pale in color and less denser in texture. If you want to use a hand mixer you can use it.

If you want more creamy cinnamon roll icing, use heavy cream instead of milk.