Cinnamon Scrolls

This week's experiment was Cinnamon Scrolls. I looked up recipes and the first four were all the same. I liked the explanation from Fun, Cheap or Free the best. Now, you can't believe everything you read on the internet, because one site said this recipe takes 45 mins to make. It took me more like 3 hours. Most of that was waiting for my bread machine to do it's thing, but I'm glad I started these early!

First off, I added everything to the bread machine (after a early morning walk to the ahops for some milk) and waited for 1.5 hours while it kneeded the dough and allowed it to rise. The dough then needed to be rolled out into a rectangle. I don't have a rolling pin, so I improvised (See the jar at the top of the pic? Yeah. That.). I smooshed margerine all over it with my fingers, as Fun, Cheap or Free suggests, which was totally fun but the end result was...messy.

Sprinkle the cinnamon and brown sugar mix over with a sieve and roll the dough! I cut each roll to be about 2cm wide...tall?...long? Anyway I got a lovely even 21 scrolls out of this recipe! I let them sit in a warm oven for about 15 minutes (I couldn't wait the suggested 30 minutes. I wanted my scrolls!). They cooked for about 20 minutes, but didn't brown. To check if they were cooked, I cut into one of them. Is there a better way? I've never made dough things before! Besides pizza. Mmmm... pizza...

While the scrolls were cooking, I mixed about four fifths of a philly cheese block, one cup of icing mix and a glob of butter together to make the delicious icing. The icing had a slightly tart taste using this ratio, which I thought offset the sweetness of the sugar piled into the scrolls.

They're best served warm, either straight out of the oven or microwaved for 20 seconds, as I discovered the next day ;). Probably some icecream would be amazing, but I haven't tried that...yet. I was too busy eating them to take a pic of the final product :P

Bake on,

Beth x