Cinnabon Classic Roll Copycat Recipe
An enriched dough, a filling that is a third cinnamon by volume, and a cream cheese frosting with a much higher chees…
Cooking Cinnabon at home, and what its menu costs
Makara cinnamon and a frosting with more cream cheese in it than anyone expects.
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The Cinnabon recipes on this site
Not every menu item has a recipe here, and that is deliberate - We write a page when there is something genuinely worth saying about how to make the thing.
What Cinnabon food actually tastes of
Use the best cinnamon you can find and use more than feels sensible. Korintje or Saigon. The filling is brown sugar, cinnamon and softened butter in roughly equal visual volume.
The frosting is cream cheese first. Full-fat block cream cheese, butter, icing sugar, vanilla, and a pinch of salt. It goes on while the rolls are warm so half of it melts in and half stays on top.
Crowd the tin. Rolls baked with their sides touching stay tall and soft; spaced out, they dry.
About Cinnabon
Cinnabon is built on two specifics. The first is the cinnamon: a high-oil Korintje variety the company markets as Makara, noticeably sweeter and less sharp than the cassia in a supermarket jar. The second is the frosting, which is a cream cheese frosting with a much higher cream cheese ratio than a home recipe usually calls for, which is why it tastes tangy rather than merely sweet.
Everything else is a competent enriched dough. If you have made a cinnamon roll before you can make this one; the difference is entirely in those two choices plus one technique - the rolls are baked close together so the sides stay pale and soft.
What Cinnabon charges, from the menu we hold
8 priced options across 61 menu sections, as last recorded in Thailand. Prices move and vary by outlet, so treat these as a reference point rather than a quote.
Half the menu sits between $5.00 and $7.99. Here is the whole spread:
| Position | Item | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest priced item | $4.49 | |
| Middle of the menu | $6.00 | |
| Dearest priced item | $20.99 |
Cinnabon changes its prices without telling you. We read this menu once a month and keep the reading – have the changes emailed to you, free, one click to stop.
Every reading we hold is on the Cinnabon price history. The full list is on the Cinnabon menu page, and the 1 item we have rebuilt at home is listed here.
What Cinnabon charges in 6 countries
The same item, priced from each country’s own menu and converted to one currency so the columns can be read against each other. Cinnabon sets prices per market, so a gap here is the chain’s pricing rather than an exchange rate artefact – and the widest gap on this list is Caramel Pecanbon, which costs $5.93 in the dearest market and $2.35 in the cheapest.
| Item | 🇬🇧 GBP | 🇸🇬 SGD | 🇵🇭 PHP | 🇭🇰 HKD | 🇲🇾 MYR | 🇹🇭 THB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5.15 | $5.93 | $2.62 | $5.86 | $4.04 | $2.35 |
Only items Cinnabon prices in at least 5 of the markets we hold are listed, because a row with three figures in it is a gap rather than a comparison.
What Cinnabon sells nearly everywhere
Ranked by how many of the markets in our price data carry the item with a published price. This is computed from the menu tables, so it reflects what the chain actually sells rather than what it advertises.
| Menu item | Markets priced | Recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Caramel Pecanbon | 6 | Cinnabon Classic Roll Copycat Recipe |
| Minibon | 3 | - |
| Americano | 3 | - |
| Mochalatta Chill | 2 | - |
| Classic Cinnabon | 2 | - |
| Cafe Latte | 2 | - |
| MochaLatta Chill® | 2 | - |
| Minibon Classic | 2 | - |
| Cappuccino | 2 | - |
| Cinnabon Classic | 2 | Cinnabon Classic Roll Copycat Recipe |
| Strawberry | 2 | - |
| Chocobon | 2 | - |
Build your Cinnabon order, see what it costs
Tick what you would actually order. The total runs as you go, and where we have built the item at home you will see both figures side by side.
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