Cinnamon Rolls

Well Weebly - you've won the battle.🏳😩 After months of finding my daughter's water skiing pictures on baked potato recipes and silly dog photos where chocolate chip biscotti pictures should have been displayed, I think I've finally found the source of the problem.  I don't want to throw my website host under the bus but... they've been allowing pictures to be randomly swapped between my blog posts for a couple of years now. 🥺  I won't bore you with the details about how this happened but sufficed to say, I'm working to remedy the situation.  

I will admit that I was more than a little upset when I found out that the only way to restore the original photographs on my blog posts is to remake every single recipe and retake and upload all new pictures. 😩  We're talking hundreds of blog recipes!  So, this year, I'll be systematically going through all of my recipes from the summer of 2020 to the end of 2022 to make sure that they all have pictures that match the recipe.  This is a sloooooww process but bear with me, I'll get it done eventually. 📷

To all of you who have emailed, texted and called me about strange pictures on my blog - I've heard you and do appreciate you reaching out.  The silver lining in the whole situation is that being forced to remake the recipes using my own blog gives me a chance to rereading the stories and reminisce about each blog post.  

Taking a deep dive into my recipe index also made me aware of just how many questionable food choices I've made over the years.🤣  I didn't realize that my raging sweet tooth was so obvious.😬  Why has it never occurred to me before that having 21 different cinnamon roll recipes in my repertoire, might be a little excessive?  Too many?😅 Well, here's to contributing to my sugar addiction with one more cinnamon roll recipe.    

Cinnamon Rolls
1 cup warm milk
3 Tbsp. sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast
5 Tbsp. butter, softened
4 ¾ cups all-purpose flour, divided
1 egg
1 tsp. salt

Filling
½ cup butter, softened
⅔ cup granulated sugar
2 Tbsp. cinnamon

Glaze
2 ½ cups powdered sugar
2 Tbsp. milk
2 tsp. vanilla

Combine milk, sugar and yeast in bowl of standing mixer.  

Let sit 5 minutes until foamy. 

Add flour, butter, egg and salt and knead with dough hook for 5 minutes. 

Transfer dough to a greased bowl.  

Cover and let rise 1 hour. 

Transfer dough to countertop and roll to a rectangle.  

Mix together cinnamon and sugar for filling.  

Spread softened butter over dough. 

Sprinkle cinnamon sugar over butter. 

Roll up dough, starting with a long end. 

Cut into 1" slices.  

Place in a greased 9x13" dish. 

Place rolls in the frig to cold proof or let rise 30 minutes on counter. 

Bake rolls 22-24 minutes at 350.

Whisk together glaze ingredients and drizzle over warm rolls. 

Here's to a year of revisiting blog recipes that I'd long forgotten about.  In the meantime, if you happen to run across a post with pictures of me doing a handstand - feel free to reach out and let me know.🤪 I'm sure that there are more crazy pictures out there that I've missed. 

Ciao!

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