Cinnamon Rolls!

This weekend I was being very adventurous. i made red beans that turned out great and also I made cinnamon rolls that everyone loved. I usually read this blog The Pioneer Woman. She takes pictures of everything she makes and I love that because you can tell whether or not you are doing it right. Well one day I looked and saw that she made cinnamon rolls for a Christmas tradition and I decided I wanted to make mine one too. So here we go....




First I put the mixing bowl in the oven to warm up. I have a setting for warm and I figure that would be good enough. I heard that in order for your dough to turn out good you have to feel everything nice and warm and happy.


Next I combined milk, sugar and veggie oil and scalded it together. I had to let this sit until warm.

Then 2 packages of yeast went in.

After the yeast was cooled I added 8 cups of flour to the liquid mixture. Then the hard part came...waiting for it to rise. It doubled in size and I was jumping up and down "It worked...It worked!!!". My boyfriend thought I was nuts but he said good job anyway. It was so weird to see it doubled in size.

After it had risen I punched it down and added an additional cup of flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda. ( I am telling you that baking dough or rather making dough is extremely exhausting)

Mixed it together..

Put some flour down on the counter and poured the dough over it.

Ok I know this is ghetto but I used a can to roll the dough out. ( I took the paper off and cleaned it ok people?!)

Melted some butter

Pour that goodness on!!!

Spread it out a but with a brush

Sprinkled a lot of cinnamon and sugar over the whole thing.

Roll that sucker up!

Cut it in 1 inch slices and put it in like this.

Took it out the next morning and set it to rise once more for 30 mins and baked them for 30 mins at 400.

Oh wow they look good and my house smelled of cinnamon and sugar all day.

I also made homemade icing to go with it. It was just powdered sugar, milk, a dash of regular sugar and vanilla. I poured it on heavy and since they were hot it melted right in. Oh wow!!

I brought them to work and they were all gone in an hour!! Merry Christmas everyone and have a great rest of the year!