I gave up sugar a while ago.....it didn't last long. It was surreal while it lasted. I didn't crave it like I used to. I didn't NEED it on a Friday night. They I caved and once I did I realized something. I finally decided to own it. We live in a sugar house. You know like the one in Hansel and Gretel? No our windows are not edible but we like to bake. It is just a fact of life. My idols are not movie stars, they are cooking bloggers. I blog stalk their sites more than any other site EVEN political sites which is saying a lot. I love finding new recipes and trying them out. My most favorite thing to do is to bake sweets. I must have passed this on to my girls because they love it too. One thing I had never made was cinnamon rolls. I have this weird phobia of yeast. I know it is silly but it is there. Then Taylor, Lexie, Natalie andd Megan whipped up this batch of cinnamon rolls in under an hour and I was impressed. I secretly thought that they probably wouldn't taste good since they did them so fast and they are only 5, 12 and 13. Then they baked them and WOW! I've had cinnabon and all the other types of commercial cinnamon rolls. Plus I have had a lot of homemade cinnamon rolls but I am not exaggerating when I say that these are the best I have ever had. We had those rolls gone in a matter of seconds. I might admit to having 2 but never to having 3.....
Maren's Cinnamon Rolls
Pour into microwaveable bowl and heat in microwave for 4 minutes:
2 1/2 Cups tap water, cold
2 1/2 Cups cold milk
Put into Bosch (or any bread mixer) and mix:
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup oil
2 Tablespoons salt
Add heated water and milk
Sprinkle 2 heaping Tablespoons Red Star Yeast onto top of mixture - mix a little to moisten yeast
Let the yeast rise 4-5 minutes
Add 12-13 cups flour, 1 cup at a time. Keep adding flour until the dough no longer sticks to the sides of the bowl, but is still sticky. Do not add too much flour. Let beat on lowest speed for 4-5 minutes.
Transfer to another bowl and cover and let rise until it doubles and reaches the top of the bowl - about 45-60 minutes.
Roll out ¼ of dough at a time, spread 1/4 cup melted butter, then sprinkle brown sugar and cinnamon on rolled out dough.
Roll dough like a jellyroll and ‘slice’ with thread into 12 rolls. Place into greased jellyroll pan.
Cover and raise 20 minutes.
Bake at 350 for 17-20 minutes.
Cream Cheese Frosting
1 cube softened butter.
1 pkg. cream cheese
3 ½ cups powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
Mix together and frost cinnamon rolls while still hot.
Pour into microwaveable bowl and heat in microwave for 4 minutes:
2 1/2 Cups tap water, cold
2 1/2 Cups cold milk
Put into Bosch (or any bread mixer) and mix:
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup oil
2 Tablespoons salt
Add heated water and milk
Sprinkle 2 heaping Tablespoons Red Star Yeast onto top of mixture - mix a little to moisten yeast
Let the yeast rise 4-5 minutes
Add 12-13 cups flour, 1 cup at a time. Keep adding flour until the dough no longer sticks to the sides of the bowl, but is still sticky. Do not add too much flour. Let beat on lowest speed for 4-5 minutes.
Transfer to another bowl and cover and let rise until it doubles and reaches the top of the bowl - about 45-60 minutes.
Roll out ¼ of dough at a time, spread 1/4 cup melted butter, then sprinkle brown sugar and cinnamon on rolled out dough.
Roll dough like a jellyroll and ‘slice’ with thread into 12 rolls. Place into greased jellyroll pan.
Cover and raise 20 minutes.
Bake at 350 for 17-20 minutes.
Cream Cheese Frosting
1 cube softened butter.
1 pkg. cream cheese
3 ½ cups powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
Mix together and frost cinnamon rolls while still hot.
This recipe just works - every time! A great tip from Maren is to use a portion of the dough for regular dinner rolls. You could make cinnamon rolls for breakfast and then roll out some rolls for dinner. Just roll them out croissant style, let them rise, cover and put the dough in the refrigerator. Then bake like the cinnamon rolls.
The girls did a great job. Lexie even rolled out some mini rolls. I think they have Sunday breakfast duty from now on.
1 comment:
It must be a Davies thing because all us other Daveis girls absolutely LOVE baking, too! I never have the willpower to give up sweets for more than a couple of days haha. Those cinnamon rolls look DIVINE! I might just have to give them a try for Valentine's Day breakfast!
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