Because I am of the opinion that everyone should make them more often. And I am SO not talking about those disgusting little specimens that come in a tube.
We had an overnight getaway this weekend and were in charge of breakfast for about 30 people, give or take a few. It took me mere seconds to decide to make a batch of Pioneer Woman’s Cinnamon Rolls. They are a crowd pleaser, and I’ve never met anyone who didn’t like a cinnamon roll for breakfast. Paired with some fresh fruit to balance the sugar in the rolls, it was a welcome morning treat.
I make two changes to PW’s recipe. One is that I use far less butter in my filling. I brush melted butter on each batch of dough to coat and hold the sugar, but I don’t bathe the dough in butter like she does. The second change that I make is that I use a simple vanilla frosting/icing because kids on my planet don’t like coffee flavored anything. Otherwise, I follow her recipe to a “T”, and it really is very easy as well as very good.
My one warning to you is going to be to double check your cinnamon BEFORE you sprinkle in on the dough. Make sure that you have, in fact, grabbed the bottle of cinnamon, and not, say, the identical looking bottle of ground cumin sitting right next to it.
Yes, my friends, I did just that. It’s a really good thing that I have a small counter and had to roll out my dough in four batches, because the first batch got sprinkled heavily with cumin. I sprinkled, and then started to roll up the dough. When the scent of chili started wafting up I paused, glanced at the spice bottle to my right and nearly let out a curse word or two. (I refrained.) I looked at the rectangle of dough before me for a second before realizing that there was absolutely no way to salvage this. So one-fourth of my roll dough went straight into the trash, and THEN I grabbed the bottle of cinnamon.
I put my cinnamon rolls in disposable 9×13 pans and got 20 rolls in each pan, so a total of 60 cinnamon rolls for me. It would have been 80 had I avoided the cumin, so this recipe makes plenty. One of these days I’m going to make a batch just for us and freeze several pans to pull out from time to time,because they are so wonderful and make everyone happy for breakfast.
I’ll steer you to the recipe over at Pioneer Woman’s website because I could never direct you as well as she does. Make some cinnamon rolls, your family will thank you for it.