When the slightly tangy flavor of cream cheese blends with butter and sugar, it creates cream cheese frosting, whose flavor profile makes the perfect companion to cinnamon rolls.

Even outside of cinnamon rolls, cinnamon and cream cheese pair well together. In fact, there may even be a scientific reason behind why we enjoy this pairing so much.

As we age, our taste buds develop further, allowing us to appreciate flavors we may have disliked as kids. In our 40s and 50s, we can actually start losing taste buds, too.

This means that we may become less receptive to sweet snacks and instead crave more complex flavors, and cream cheese frosting provides cinnamon rolls with that complexity.