Healthy and Indulgent Meals Dangling in Front of You. Happy Saturday.
It’s been a long week, hasn’t it? We’ve all worked hard, especially after coming off all those holidays, right? We deserve a little boost to a Saturday morning. I’m quickly realizing that as I get more and more comfortable with yeast breads, I have discovered a brand new feeling. I’ll find a recipe, actually PLAN IN ADVANCE (which is a new concept, considering I usually go off of cravings and what is available to me in the fridge…), and prep the night before. I’m usually not a sweet kind of breakfast person. Raspberry Swirl Sweet Rolls Servings: 16 rolls Ingredients For the dough 1 cup milk 2/3 cup sugar 1 and 1/2 tablespoons active dry yeast 1 stick unsalted butter, softened 2 large eggs 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt 4 and 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting***I made a boo-boo and ran out of white flour in the middle of this.
For the filling 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon cornstarch For the glaze 3/4 cup confectioners’ sugar. 90-minute Brown Butter Cinnamon Rolls. I don’t mean to be dramatic, but this recipe has changed my life.
So much so, that I made them twice in a week and am already planning on making them this weekend for Easter brunch. You see I always wanted to learn how to make ooey-gooey dough-y cinnamon rolls, but every time I found I recipe that looked good, I saw the “proof overnight” step and immediately got discouraged. (I’ve mentioned my aversion to recipes with overnight steps and cinnamon rolls were no exception.) I tried to find ways to replicate the cinnamon rolls I’d been envisioning without needing patience. I made Cinnamon Roll Muffins and Cinnamon Roll Pancakes, both which were amazing, but not the exact replica I had in mind. Once I found this gem on AllRecipes, I bookmarked it right away and was waiting for the perfect chance to make them. Last weekend I was in Wisconsin for a “Future In-Laws meet my Parents” get-together, and my Mom asked me to bake something sweet for brunch. Secrets to Beautiful Cinnamon Rolls. To replicate the best puffy, feathery cinnamon rolls of our youth, we made a buttermilk-based sweet dough.
The buttermilk adds richness, but also keeps the dough from being too heavy or greasy. Rounded out with some melted butter and a few eggs, our sweet dough was rich and moist and, best of all, easy to put together. Once we found the perfect foundation, we focused on the shaping process that would give the buns their pinwheel spirals. Rolling up the dough slowly and tightly eliminated air pockets and ensured the rolls wouldn’t uncoil while cooking. The other part of the equation was finding the best tool for slicing the cylinder into evenly sized rolls: a serrated knife. STEP #1 Form the risen dough into a rectangle: Working on a lightly floured counter, press the dough into a 16 by 12-inch rectangle with the long side facing you. STEP #2 Add the filling and leave a border: Sprinkle the filling evenly over the dough leaving a ¾-inch border along the top edge.
Blueberry Maple Pecan Cinnamon Buns. The farmers market was absolutely overflowing with cheap local blueberries this weekend and I picked up a lot of them.
Cinna-Buns. A tasty twist on classic cinnamon rolls. Taste of the Season: Pumpkin Spice Cinnamon Rolls. Pumpkins, Autumn leaves and the vast colors across the trees, mums & sunflowers, family, and crisp cool weather!
The only thing to make it all better is a plate of cinnamon rolls - PUMPKIN spice cinnamon rolls to be precise. I've made pumpkin cinnamon rolls before but these do not compare with any cinnamon roll recipe on this earth - not even Cinnabon's are this good!! Besides the perfect amount of pumpkin in the dough, you also use pumpkin pie spice in place of ordinary cinnamon and it yields a magnificent blend of Autumn spices and flavors.
I believe the Homemade Pumpkin Spice recipe is what really carried it over the top for me. :D The dough is so light and fluffy, very easy to work with, and rises beautifully! My family has a "secret recipe" mock-up of Cinnabon's creamy fluffy frosting that we love so much, created by my dad. Pumpkin Spice Cinnamon Rolls 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Really, you *must* make these this year. Maple Pecan Cinnamon Rolls. Sorry for the lack of posting this week, you guys.
