A restaurant in Washington went viral on TikTok for its massive 10-pound cinnamon roll menu item. With over 9.6 million views, the sweet treat left viewers in awe.

After making and tasting dozens over the course of my baking career, I had pretty much accepted that cinnamon rolls, like scones and madeleines, are good only when eaten fresh from the oven.

In The Onion’s 2014 satire piece, “Beautiful Cinnamon Roll Too Good For This World, Too Pure,” a simple cinnamon roll is hailed as a gentle creature of sorts. Its mere existence is rather ...

3 tubes (12.4 ounces each) of refrigerated cinnamon roll dough with icing. 4 large eggs. 1/2 cup half-and-half. 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon. 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt ...