Saturday, August 15, 2009

Cinnamon Buns

These nearly killed our bread machine this morning. It is one of the highest rated recipes on Allrecipes and it said to make it in a bread machine, so I did. Unfortunatly though the dough was really tough and the bread machine started making funny noises. So we took the dough out, kneaded it ourselves and the just let it rise for a while. It still turned out really tasty in the end. Although next time I think I'll make it by hand, following the guidelines in the Allrecipes comments.

1 cup warm milk
2 eggs, room temperature
1/3 cup margarine, melted
4 1/2 cups bread flour
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup sugar
2 1/2 tsp yeast

Place ingredients in bread machine in order. Use the 'dough' setting. When the dough is ready let it rest for 10 minutes.

1/3 cup butter, softened
1 cup brown sugar
2 1/2 tbsp cinnamon

Combine sugar and cinnamon. Roll out the dough to as large a rectangle as you can. Spread the butter all over the dough. Then sprinkle the sugar and cinnamon mixture all over the dough. Roll up the dough and then cut into rolls. Place the rolls in a 9x13 pan that has been lined with greased wax paper. Let rise for another 30 minutes or so, until doubled in size. Preheat oven to 350. Bake the cinnamon buns for 15 minutes. While these are baking make the icing.

1/2 pkg cream cheese
1/4 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups icing sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla

Combine butter and cream cheese. Cream. Stir in vanilla. Then slowly stir in the icing sugar until smooth and creamy.

When the cinnamon buns are ready, turn the pan upside down onto a cookie sheet. Cut out each cinnamon buns and cover in the cream cheese icing, while they are still warm.

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