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Oh I had fun making Cinnamon Rolls

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Renee Spindle

Now I know everyone is busy this week setting goals for the new year, maybe trying to cut back on the sweet treats and what you are eating, but the next time you have a sweet tooth and need a great sweet treat, you need to try this recipe.

Over the holidays I created the cinnamon roll recipe from my Pioneer Woman cookbook. Oh and what fun I had. I’m pretty sure this was the last treat I put together for my 2012 Christmas baking season. First of all you need to understand the I am a bread-head. I love anything breadalicious. Bread, rolls, French bread, sweet breads. ,yum, yum.

I actually haven’t made anything along the lines of a bread recipe since October when we had a homemade pizza party. So I gathered the ingredients, made the dough as directed, and voila here’s what it looked like after is had risen for about an hour. Beautiful isn’t it?

Whenever I see a bowl full of poofy dough like this I just want to punch it down and smell the sweet bread flavors, and I did.

Next was rolling out the dough into a semi-rectangle, and adding the toppings. butter, cinnamon, sugar, butter, cinnamon, sugar. It was wonderful.

Then came “The Roll”!! Starting at one end and rolling as tightly as you can, but uniformly until you end up with your rectangle of dough looking like this…

This recipe makes two long rectangles for the cinnamon rolls. The first rectangle I rolled was a little bit loose, and I probably could have rolled slightly tighter. By the second rectangle I had my system in order and it turned out great.

Then you cut the rolls, place them into your baking pans, and let them rest and rise again. I used foil pans, since most of these were going to friends and family for a Christmas treat.

Once they rested, they go into the oven for 20 minutes, frost and you are ready for some seriously sweet noshing. But make sure you include a good cup of coffee with your treat. Then it becomes spectacular.

I had so much fun rolling the dough and putting the rolls together. The texture of this dough was fantastic, and made the assembly process all the easier.

My taste testers here at the house have proclaimed that this recipe must be a new Christmas tradition. I agree. I will add this to my annual Christmas baking arsenal for many years to come.

What’s your favorite baking recipe?

>> Photo credit for this post goes to my Travel Man…

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Dusting off My Breadmaker

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Renee Spindle

All of you have that certain small appliance sitting on your shelf collecting dust. My shelf is pretty big, and sometimes I forgot to look in the back of the shelf to see what is there. You know the second row of the shelf all the way in the back. A few weeks ago, I looked back there and was reminded that I have a bread maker. And it had quite a layer of dust on it. So I pulled it off of the shelf, cleaned it all up, and actually found the recipe book that came with the bread maker. I could not believe that one! Travel Man had to replace the plug for me and then I was all set to go.

The bread maker is the easiest way to make bread known to man. Throw your ingredients in, in the correct order of course, and voila a beautiful loaf of bread. I had not made bread in a long, long time and everyone loved it, especially Evan. He keeps asking me when I’ll be making more. I made him his own personal loaf for Valentine’s Day. He kissed the loaf of bread when I gave it to him. Evan likes to have peanut butter sandwiches, and he told his Mom he could only eat them on the bread from Grandma now. Too funny!

For this loaf of plain white bread the ingredients are:

1 c. Water
2¾ c. Bread Flour
2 Tbsp. Dry Milk
2 Tbsp. Sugar
1½ Tsp. Salt
2 Tbsp. Butter or Margarine
2 Tsp. Active Dry Yeast

The first thing you put in the pan is the water. Then mix the dry ingredients, except for the yeast, in a separate bowl and add on top of the water. Spread the dry ingredients in the pan evenly, and make a small well in the middle of the dry ingredients for the yeast. Measure the yeast and put it into the little well. Cut your butter into four small pieces, and place them on top of the dry ingredients in your pan. Put the pan into your bread maker, and turn it on.

For my bread maker it was set to basic bread with a medium color crust. Total bake time start to finish is 3 hours and 10 minutes. Once the bread is done you just pop it out of the pan, and cool for 15-20 minutes before eating. Then just slice, butter and enjoy.

I have made six or seven loaves of bread in the last couple of weeks. Travel Man and I enjoyed some audacious french toast made with this bread for breakfast. Since we have all gotten back on our calorie counting recently I will only be making bread once a week now. Otherwise we just eat way too much. My next experiment with the bread maker will be to make homemade pizza dough for our wood grilled pizzas. Updates on that in a week or so.