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Adventures in Cinnamon Rolls

December 23rd, 2007 at 06:43 pm

I've had a hankerin' for cinnamon rolls lately, so I looked up a nice recipe online:
http://www.thepioneerwomancooks.com/2007/06/cinammon_rolls_.html

Doesn't look too hard, does it? I've never made cinnamon rolls before, so I thought this one, with nice step by step instructions, would be a good starting point.

Here is my version of these cinnamon rolls:

4 cups (1 quart) whole milk
1 cup vegetable oil (I used olive oil. that is all I had. Hope it will work!)
1 cup sugar

I was supposed to mix these together and scald and then let cool for an hour. Scalding means heat until just before the boiling point. Except, I didn't catch it. And it boiled. Over. Oily, sweet milk all over the burners, and I didn't know how much I lost (it looked like a LOT!) so I threw that out and started over Smile

Ok, 4 cups (1 quart) whole milk, 1 cup olive oil and 1 cup sugar. Thought, "I'll clean the mess up after I scald the milk. I have to wait an hour anyway." So, put the pot back on the same burner and started seeing smoke. Ok, turn that burner off, move to another one. Started to see smoke AND fire. Eek. Got the fire out...it was just a small one. (I'm not kidding by the way Smile ) Finally got one that I could use, scalded it and moved off to cool.

Opened some windows to get the smoke out of the kitchen.

Waited an hour and transferred the oily, sweet milk to a bigger bowl. Should have started out with that one. Added 8 cups flour, mixed and waited another hour.

Then added 1 more cup flour, 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder, 1 scant teaspoon baking soda, and 1 heaping tablespoon salt. Mixed that together, floured countertop and worked with half of the dough.

Here is when I realized I don't have a rolling pin. So, I patted it out and stretched it and pounded it until it looked big enough. It was not thin enough or long enough, but I didn't realize that until I finished the next few steps.

Melted 2 cups of butter and drizzled on top. No, really I poured it on top and because the dough wasn't rolled out big enough, a bunch of it ended up on the countertop. Then, I poured on 1 cup sugar and covered the top with cinnamon. It was such a mess!

I rolled the dough into rolls and cut them into 1" pieces. I put the butter I had left over in the bottom of a 9X13" pan. Then I put all the rolls into the pan. Then I realized there was too much butter, so I tried to hold the rolls in the pan and pour off some of the butter. Didn't work extremely well, but at least I didn't drop any of the rolls.

Waited 30 minutes, and the rolls expanded to fill the 9X13" pan. Baked at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.

Made the yummy frosting. It is SO RICH, but it really tastes good. The coffee adds a nice touch.
Frosting:
1/2 bag powdered sugar
1/4 C milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 tbsp melted butter
pinch of salt
Mix.

That is my kind of recipe. Dump ingredients in a bowl and mix it up.

The rolls came out of the oven and I poured the frosting on. It looks DIVINE! I can't wait to go to fiance's side Christmas tonight so we can tear into them!

3 Responses to “Adventures in Cinnamon Rolls”

  1. boomeyers Says:
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    That sounds like an adventure in baking!

  2. luxliving Says:
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    Hahhhhaaa!! Great that you kept going.

    I just spread butter on my dough, w/o melting the butter. Much cleaner that way!!

    Practice makes perfect.

    Would love to see a pic of the veil sometime!!

  3. cptacek Says:
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    Thanks for the hint. Spreading non-melted butter sure would be easier!!! I am going to try this recipe again...both of our families loved it.

    I am doing a fitting tomorrow or Monday for the dress and I'll try to remember to get a picture of the veil and post it.

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