Hi, sweetie!
(Chris, Jenny and Annabelle making bread bags for future loaves of bread!)
This weekend was wonderful! I loved staying with you and Chris and Annabelle. Marriage agrees with all of you. You look wonderful, and so does Chris. I can’t get over how sweet y’all were taking me out to the awesome Lebanese restaurant. Yum! The food was beautiful and delicious! The Pie Kitchen was fabulous, too. I love Louisville. Can I move up there with you guys? 🙂
But, more importantly, the recipe for cinnamon rolls. Here goes!!
Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups milk
1 stick butter
1 1/2 teaspoon salt
3 heaping tablespoons sugar
2 cups Whole Wheat flour
1 1/2 cups Bread Flour
1 egg
1/8 cup cinnamon
1 cup sugar
13″ by 9″ glass pan
cooking spray
Making the Cinnamon Rolls:
1. measure 1 3/4 cups of milk and pour it into your bread pan.
2. Measure 1 1/2 teaspoon salt into bread pan.
3. Measure 3 heaping tablespoons sugar into bread pan.
4. Cut your stick of butter in half.
Place the half stick in a measuring cup and place it in the microwave for 20 seconds, or until it melts.
Pour the melted butter into the bread pan and save the other half stick in measuring cup.
6. Crack one egg into bread pan.
7. Measure 2 cups of whole wheat flour into left side of bread pan.
8. Measure 1 and a half cups of bread flour and pour into right side of bread pan.
9. Measure two heaping teaspoons of bread machine yeast into middle of bread pan.
10. Place bread pan in machine and set for dough cycle. Press start 🙂
11. When dough cycle is complete, remove pan. Spray 9 x 13″ glass baking dish with cooking spray.
12. Pour dough into greased baking dish.
13. Press dough down flat stretching it and pushing it until it fills the baking dish.
14. Melt the other half stick of butter in microwave. Make press holes in dough with your fingertips. Pour butter over dough and spread with hands.
15. Make a cinnamon sugar mixture by mixing 1/8 cup cinnamon with 1 cup of sugar. It’s easiest if you mix it in an old cinnamon container that has holes at the top for sprinkling! Shake it all up, and then pour about a half a cup of the mixture or more until it covers the dough evenly.
Well, sort of evenly. You can’t put too much of the cinnamon sugar mixture on!
16. Now, you are going to roll the dough. Start at the top and begin rolling the dough down.
Keep rolling until you have the tightest roll you can manage.
Now, wrap the bottom edge over the top and seal by pressing the dough together.
It should look something like this when you finish:
17. Now, you are going to cut the dough into 16 rolls. Begin by making a cut in the center with a sharp knife.
Now, cut each half in half:
Continue halving the halves until you have sixteen even rolls.
Next, pull the rolls out one by one and distribute them evenly in the baking dish.
Next, preheat the oven to 200. When the oven is preheated, turn it off, and put your rolls in to rise.
After about 20-30 minutes, when the rolls have doubled in size,
turn the oven to 350 and bake for 15-17 minutes, or until the tops are brown.
Take out of the oven, let cool, and enjoy!
If you want extra sweetness, make some butter cream icing and slather over the top!
Butter Cream Icing