Stir together the flour, sugar, yeast and salt. Then, melt butter, combine with milk and heat to 105-115 degrees. Add the mixture, eggs, vanilla extract and almond extract to the flour.
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Knead the dough until it becomes smooth and elastic. Both a stand mixer or kneading by hand does the trick. The dough will be a bit sticky. Now we let it rise in a warm spot.
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While the dough rises, we cook our apple filling on the stove in a mixture of maple syrup, butter, cinnamon and brown sugar.
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Now we roll out the dough and spread butter on top with a mixture of cinnamon, brown sugar and the apple filling.
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Starting at one end, gently roll the filled dough into a log. You may want to first lightly flour the surface to prevent sticking.
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Cut the filled dough into cinnamon rolls and place in a baking dish. Allow the rolls to rise again for 20 minutes, pour heavy cream on top and bake.
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To make the maple glaze, beat together cream cheese, maple syrup, powdered sugar and milk. Drizzle over the baked apple cinnamon rolls.
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