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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Cinnabuns

Ok so here is my recipe:
in a microwave bowl add:
-1 cup of brown sugar or 3/4 honey
-1 cup of powdered milk
-1 cup of potato flakes
-2 Tablespoons of sea salt
-1 cup of butter
-5 cups of warm water
Cook in microwave for about 1 minute until the sugar and salt are dissolved, and stir until the butter is melted and all is mixed.  You want this mixture med warm.  Let set if it's not
In a mixing bowl (I use a Bosch), pour in the mixture.  Add:
-3 heaping Tablespoons of Yeast (make sure your yeast isn't too old.  If you want to taste it, place just a bit in warm water and sugar to see if it grows- it will look foamy)
-2 cups of flour
Let sit for at least 10 minutes so the yeast can grow.  It will look foamy.
Once that is done, mix on low and add:
-2 eggs
-more flour until the dough pulls away from the side.  I really can't remember how many so just watch for the dough to start coming together.
I sometimes add just a 1/4 a cup of vital gluten flour.  Bread flour is just regular flour with gluten in it anyway, so I will sometimes use bread flour, but not always.
-Once the dough starts to pull away from the sides, set the timer for 8 minutes and allow it to kneed.  Also you want to keep the speed low, the whole time.
-After 8 minutes, coat your counter and hands in butter.  Plus you want a large bowl that is also sprayed with non stick spray sitting aside.
Place dough on the buttered counter, and with your hands kneed another minute, adding butter to your hands as needed so its not too sticky and form into a ball.  Place dough into buttered bowl.
-Cover with clean, dry dish towel and place in a warm place (I put my on the stove with the stove on.)
-Let the dough double in size, then punch down.  That is only needed once but can be done more times too.
-Then dough rises again to double in size, dump it out on a buttered counter, again coat your hands with butter so dough is easy to work with.  Pinch of a handful of dough and form into a ball.
Here you can either just make rolls by placing them on a buttered pan, or you can make Cinnabuns.
For Cinnabuns, have a small bowl of melted butter and a small bowl of Cinnamon and sugar.
-Use the ball you just formed and dip it in the butter, then into the cinnamon and sugar, then place it on the pan.  Repeat until your pan is full.
At this point you can cover the pan with plastic wrap and put into the freezer to save for another time.  When you take them out you will need to let them rise (probably for about 3 hours) and then bake them.  If they are for right now then place them in a warm spot and,
-Let double in size.
-Bake @ 350 degrees for about 22-25 minutes.
-When they come out, gently coat with frosting.  I use cream cheese frosting (because its my favorite and since I'm the one making them, I get to choose:)
Cream Cheese Frosting:
1 package of cream cheese (softened)
1 cube butter (softened)
cream first two together really well, then add:
3 cups powdered sugar
1 1/2 pure vanilla
OK, your done, NOW ENJOY!!!  It makes enough for your family and you can also give some away or save a pan for later by putting it in the freezer, and pulling out later for another day :D

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