CINNAMON ROLLS #recipes @Vmburns #christmas

 V. M. Burns: For some reason, I have had a craving for cinnamon rolls. Normally, when I want cinnamon rolls, I go to the store and buy the Pillsbury rolls and call it a day. No idea what came over me to want to try them from scratch. Okay, maybe I do know. I have a deadline approaching and I might have been procrasta-baking (don't judge). I have shared my fear of yeast and it's still there, but deadline. . . so, here's my first attempt at cinnamon rolls. 

CINNAMON ROLLS 

Ingredients

• 4 Cups flour
• 1 Cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/4 Cups milk
• 4 Teaspoons yeast
• 2 Large eggs
• 8 Tablespoons butter
• 1/2 Cup brown sugar
• 1/4 Cup cinnamon

Glaze

• 2 Cups Powdered sugar
• 1 Teaspoon butter
• 1 - 3 Tablespoons heavy whipping cream
• 1/2 Teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract

Instructions

1. Combine room temperature milk and yeast in a bowl and allow it to sit for at least 5 minutes for the yeast to activate.

   

   
   
2. Mix the flour, 1/2 cup sugar, salt until well combined. Once the yeast is activated (bubbles), add it to the dry ingredients. Using the dough hook on the stand mixer, mix the dough. Slowly incorporate the eggs and butter and mix.
3. When the dough clings to the dough hook, let the dough rest for a few minutes. 

   
   

   
   
4. Transfer the dough to a floured surface and knead for five minutes. Place the dough in a greased bowl (I used olive oil). Cover with plastic wrap and place in a warm place to proof (I used the oven) for 90 minutes (until the dough doubles in size).

   

   
   
5. Once the dough has doubled, give it a punch to deflate. Then roll it out on a flour surface to 1/4 inch.
   

   
6. Cover the dough with butter. Then sprinkle with brown sugar, remaining 1/2 cup sugar, and cinnamon.

   

   
   
7. Roll into a log, 

   
8. Slice the log in half and then slice the individual rolls and place on a greased baking sheet.

   

   
   
9. Cover the rolls with a towel and let them rise for 45 minutes until they double in size. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 20-25 minutes until they are golden brown.

   

   
   
10. While the rolls are baking combine the powdered sugar, butter, cream, milk and vanilla. Mix until smooth.

    

    
    
11. When the cinnamon rolls are done, drizzle the glaze and serve.

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• READERS: Anyone else have a baking phobia? Let me know in the comments.
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• On the shores of Lake Michigan, influencer Maddy Montgomery has turned the bakery she inherited from her great aunt Octavia into a destination. There’s just one thing she won’t post: the body in the freezer . . .
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• Thanks to Maddy’s social media savvy, Baby Cakes Bakery is becoming a huge success—so much so that she’s attracted the attention of her former nemesis, the fiancé-stealing Brandy Denton. When Brandy blows into New Bison like an ill wind and disrupts a vlog Maddy’s filming, their argument goes viral. After Brandy’s body is found in the freezer at Baby Cakes, Maddy instantly goes from viral sensation to murder suspect.
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• AS Maddy is still reeling from the murder, a stranger shows up in the bakery claiming to have been a friend of Octavia. He believes Maddy is in danger. When a second body washes up on the lake shore, it seems clear someone’s out to kill to keep a secret—and it may have to do with her great aunt.

Maddy rallies her aunt’s friends, the Baker Street Irregulars; Sheriff April Johnson; and her veterinarian boyfriend Michael—not to mention her English mastiff Baby—to do some digging and root out whoever’s behind the killings. . .

 

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