Christmas breakfast together
Here's a great Christmas breakfast candidate for our weekly family recipe -- homemade cinnamon rolls.
As we prepared to dig out from the snow Sunday, my husband found this recipe on allrecipes.com and tweaked it a bit. In true egalitarian fashion, he baked them while I was out shoveling the walks. We ate them, still warm, with some neighbors during a break between snowball fights.
Here's what they looked like before we inhaled them outside:
Here's the recipe:
Ninety-Minute Cinnamon Rolls
3/4 cup milk
1/4 cup butter, softened
3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 (.25 ounce) package instant yeast
1/4 cup white sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup water
1 egg
1 cup brown sugar, packed
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup raisins (optional)
Glaze:
1 cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup milk, plus more as desired
Heat the milk in a small saucepan until it bubbles, then remove from heat. Mix in butter; stir until melted. Let cool until lukewarm.
In a large mixing bowl, combine 2 1/4 cups of the flour, yeast, sugar and salt; mix well. Add water, egg and the milk mixture; beat well. Add the remaining flour, 1/2 cup at a time, stirring well after each addition. When the dough has just pulled together, turn it out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth, about 5 minutes.
Cover the dough with a damp cloth and let rest for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix together brown sugar, cinnamon, softened butter.
Roll out dough into a 12x9 inch rectangle. Spread dough with butter/sugar mixture. Sprinkle with raisins if desired. Roll up dough and pinch seam to seal. Cut into 12 equal size rolls and place cut side up in 12 lightly greased muffin cups. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes, or until browned. Meanwhile, mix glaze. Remove rolls from muffin cups to cool and drizzle glaze over the top. Serve warm.
Adapted from allrecipes.com
Per roll: 368 calories, 13 grams fat, 6 grams saturated fat, 60 grams carbohydrate, 5 grams protein, 1 gram fiber, 40 milligrams cholesterol, 162 milligrams sodium. Analysis by registered dietitian Jodie Shield.
(Photo of rolls in pan by me; of rolls outside by John Coyle)
Comments
Pillsbury suits us just fine:)
Posted by: NotableM | December 23, 2009 8:47 AM
Kate
Do you know if there are any variations on this recipe where you can just buy the dough separately?
This would be easier and used a lot more often if I could just go get the dough and do the rest at home. No haters - we are just busy!
I hear you (and Notable M)...and truth be told, we often use the Pillsbury tube! But tasting these convinced me they were worth the effort for a special occasion. Honestly, in the time it took me to shovel the walk and dig out the cars, they were done.
I don't know about a recipe where you could use a premade dough or where you'd buy that kind of dough, but if I do come across one I'll post it here.
Posted by: rundowmmom | December 23, 2009 2:01 PM
I sometimes use Rhodes Sweet Dough if I'm in a hurry. It's in the refrigerator case section of our supermarket. (Rhodes also has cinnamon rolls and sticky buns already made-to-bake. I've used those a couple of times...cinnamon rolls in 30 minutes. But only if who is going to eat them is nobody special.)
Posted by: Bucky | December 23, 2009 4:32 PM
These were amazing!!!! Fast and delicious. Mine turned out beautifully. Making the dough from scratch wasn't the hassle I feared it would be and was definitely worth it. Beats the usual long and disappointing wait for cinnamon rolls. Thanks for a great recipe!!
Posted by: Michelle | April 2, 2010 2:34 PM