Tips for Raising Dough for Cinnamon Rolls

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Kip and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village. Now that the dough for our homemade cinnamon rolls have been mixed it is time to let it rise. Now one of the difficult things about making rising breads at home and that would include the cinnamon dough it is that we don't have access to what we do in the commercial kitchen which we be proofing oven. Which really look like a big stainless steel refrigerators but they have control of the heat and humidity. So there is a few tricks that we can use at home to help insist in the process of letting our dough rise. Typically I will let my bread go through the rising process in the oven. But of course the oven is not necessarily warm enough so I would actually turn the oven on to about two-hundred degrees for just about three minutes. Eventually I just want to get it hot enough, let the pilot light come on cause I use gas and let it heat up just briefly and turn it off. If it is too hot we want to let it cool a little bit. But I want to take the chili in here out of the oven if it has not been used. I also want to make sure that I leave the light on once I start to help create a little additional heat in there. Again we are not looking for extra heat but we are looking for warmth and consistent warmth is good. The next thing that I will do the next thing you want to do is take a bowl a large bowl largest. Spray a little bit of this cooking spray in there or you can smear a little shorten or butter in there. But you just want to help to keep the dough from sticking too badly while it raises and put the bread in there. The next thing I will do is put a little light spray on there, give it a little oily top to keep it from drying out. Then take a dish cloth."