Mashed Idahoan® Potato Coffee Ring with Cinnamon Drizzle
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Serves: 12 rolls
 
Tender dough made with potato, brown rice flour and almond meal, with a nice contrasting crunch from the cinnamon-sugar walnut filling, and addictive butter-toffee like shards that bake up around the edges from the filling that oozes out.
Ingredients
Dough Ingredients:
  • 1⅓ cups whole milk, warmed to 110°F
  • 6 Tbsp unsalted butter
  • 5 tsp yeast
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • 1⅓ cup Idahoan® potato flakes
  • 1⅓ cup brown rice flour
  • ⅔ cup finely ground almond flour (almond meal)
  • ⅔ cup tapioca starch
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 3 tsp xanthan gum
  • 5 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 large eggs plus 2 egg whites
  • ½ cup coconut oil, warmed to a liquid
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • non-stick vegetable spray
  • parchment paper for rolling out the dough

Filling Ingredients:
  • ⅔ cup unsalted butter, melted and still hot
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 3 Tbsp cinnamon
  • 4 Tbsp potato starch
  • pinch of salt
  • ⅔ cup finely-chopped walnuts

Glaze Ingredients:
  • 1 cup confectioners sugar
  • ½ tsp vanilla
  • 1 Tbsp half-and-half (or a little more or less to make glaze to the consistency you prefer)
Instructions
  1. Proof yeast: Combine warmed milk, butter, yeast and sugar in a large bowl. Set aside in a warm place to proof for 30 minutes until foamy.
  2. Make filling: Combine dry ingredients and then pour in the hot, melted butter, stirring until smooth.
  3. Make dough: Combine the dry ingredients for the dough in the work bowl of a stand mixer. Set aside.
  4. When the yeast mixture is foamy, add the egg coconut oil and vanilla to the yeast mixture. With the stand mixer running at a very low speed, pour the liquid ingredients into the dry-mixture in a steady stream. Increase speed to medium and beat for 5 minutes, stopping to scrape the bowl as needed. If making the coffee cake: Gather the dough into a soft ball and set in a large oiled bowl in a warm place to proof for 15 minutes. If making cinnamon rolls: Divide the dough into two portions and proof.
  5. Roll-Out Dough: Spread work surface with two, overlapped pieces of parchment paper. Spray with vegetable oil. If making the cake: Place dough-ball at the center. Gently flatten the ball to make a rectangle with your hands. Cover the dough with two more vegetable-spray-coated sheets of parchment (sprayed side down)
  6. Roll out until ½ inch thick. (be careful not to roll too thin.) Spread filling over the dough, leaving a 1-inch border along the far edge. Using the parchment paper to help, gently lift and roll the dough into a spiral. Slightly flatten this to make a five inch wide oblong coffee cake. Tuck ends under. Wrap and refrigerate for ½ hour. If making cinnamon rolls: do this process twice, using each portion of dough and rolling up into a "round" log rather than the flattened one used for the cake.
  7. Remove chilled cake OR cinnamon roll logs from refrigerator. If making cake, place entire loaf on parchment-lined half-sheet pan, seam-side down. If making cinnamon rolls, butter two cake pans. Slice each cinnamon-roll log into 12 rolls and place in each pan.
  8. Set aside to proof for 12 minutes.*
  9. While rolls OR cake are proofing, preheat oven to 350°F.
  10. Place rolls OR cake in center of oven and bake for 25 minutes until puffed and golden.
  11. Make glaze. Drizzle glaze over warm rolls.
Notes:
Adding potato to sweet roll dough makes for a very tender crumb. This gluten-free cinnamon roll recipe has potato in the dough and potato starch in the cinnamon-sugar-butter filling. You can make this ahead but completely steps 1-7 and then covering and refrigerating. When you're ready to proceed, bring back up to room temperature for 30 minutes and then bake.
Recipe by Idahoan Mashed Potatoes - Idahoan Foods LLC at https://idahoan.com/recipe/mashed-idahoan-potato-coffee-ring-with-cinnamon-drizzle/