A machine for making cinnamon rolls and the like with dough fed from a reciprocating hopper through forms inside dough discharge outlets to provide a simple spiral, or other, configuration into expressed dough, the forms having tubular portions through which flavoring material is added, a cut-off knife reciprocating across the discharge outlets determining the thickness of the individual rolls which drop onto a removable pallet or moving belt for transfer thereof to an electronic oven or its equivalent.
An improved frozen cinnamon roll can be produced using a specific improved recipe and a significantly improved process. The cinnamon roll product can be manufactured and sold in a frozen form to a retail outlet. At the retail outlet, the frozen product can be thawed and baked to form a cinnamon roll that appears substantially equivalent to a fresh cinnamon roll prepared from basic ingredients on site. The recipe involves the use of specific ratios of ingredients that results in a frozen formulation that can be prepared frozen, thawed and baked successfully. In the process, a soft, sweet dough formulation is combined with a fat smear combined with a passivated cinnamon preparation. The soft, sweet, yeast-leavened dough is protected from deactivation by cinnamon using a preferred amount of smear in relation to the cinnamon. Further, the cinnamon is incorporated into the fat, using procedures forming a coated smear, that protect the soft, sweet dough yeast from the cinnamon materials. Preferred parameters relating to the dimensions of the dough sheet, rolled pastry, and amounts of materials are disclosed.
