Mike and I schedule monthly date nights. I feel like our whole life is a series of date nights, but just in case life gets in the way, we get busy, or things are hectic, we schedule one day to be intentional about each other. Every month we take turns, this month, it was Mike’s turn to treat me to a date.
The quarantine and shelter in place orders make it a little difficult to go out anywhere…by a little difficult, I mean impossible, so we have to get creative. Mike decided we would make homemade cinnamon rolls together, because love is centered around food!
Here’s a link to the recipe we sort of followed: Cinnamon Roll Recipe
And here’s what we actually did:
We followed all of the directions from the line above but our ingredients differed…ever so slightly.
Dough: Instead of 1/2 cup of scalded milk; we used 1/2 cup of scalded whipping cream
Filling: 3/4 cup of sugar became 1 cup and 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon turned into Mike just pouring a bunch in…it was at least triple the amount but likely more. We didn’t do any raisins, walnuts, or pecans
The review:
The Process: The dough didn’t rise and we aren’t sure why…Mike is suspect that he kneaded it too much or that it wasn’t warm enough for the yeast to react.
When coating the rolled out dough with butter, you should pile up some of the sugar cinnamon mixture as barricades to block the butter from flowing off the dough.
We should have cut the rolls a little thicker, we had 1 extra that we ended up baking in one of my small pie tins…it worked well.
We used a glass pyrex 8×9 pan that worked really well for baking.
I threw flour at Mike and that definitely made all the difference.
Mike didn’t notice the second waiting period for the dough, so the whole thing took about an hour longer than he anticipated…old man needed to get to bed!
The Taste: These were delicious. They were buttery and had extra “goop”, but we all know that the “goop” is where its at when it comes to cinnamon rolls. The dough was a little too moist which could be due to the issues addressed in the process above. For our first time, I’d saw they were a win!
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