the way you hold your knife

[musesfool]

I made cinnamon rolls today! These cinnamon rolls, to be exact. They were easy to make and also didn't require yeast or rising time, and they taste fantastic.

Pictures under the cut:

Comments

[kathrynthegr8]

Do you have a link to the mac & cheese recipe? Sorry if I missed it!

[musesfool]

It's this one: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Homemade-Mac-and-Cheese/Detail.aspx

[kathrynthegr8]

Thanks!

[musesfool]

np!

[magnetic_pole]

God, the things you make always sound (and look) so good, V. Mmmmm! M.

[musesfool]

Well, I like them, anyway. I'm not sure my pictures do them justice.

[magnetic_pole]

I'm not sure if it's actually even possible that those cinnamon rolls taste better than they look... M.

[musesfool]

Heh. I think they do, if only because I don't think they're very pretty. That's the part I'm not very good at - presentation.

[elizardbits]

This entire post is making me slobber helplessly. OMG.

[musesfool]

*offers napkins*

[bexone]

i once rolled out pie dough on the wooden tv tray i was at that point using as an occasional desk for my laptop. you do what needs doing when you need it, you know? i find that the dental floss method works much better for cutting rolls like that -- it doesn't squash them unevenly quite so much as a knife, which makes the end result a bit prettier. (also, if you wanted to be super-retentively exact, you could always use several lengths of floss and position all of them before you make any of the cuts. not that i have ever been that retentive, no, of course not. *halo*)

[musesfool]

If I had dental floss, I might have tried it, but I did not. It was more my sloppy knife skills, I think, than the knife's fault. Though possibly a few minutes in the fridge might have made the dough easier to cut cleanly.

[executrix]

Thanks for the cinnamon roll recipe! But I suspect I'll take the coward's way out and put everything together and call it "cinnamon scones" instead of rolling out the dough and rolling the cinnamon-sugar inside and cutting slices.

There's a Hispanic brand of brown sugar--the package has a Mama bear on it and it's called "azucar prieta" but I can't remember the actual BRAND--that's lusciously coarse and crunchy, and you can keep it at room temperature and it never gets stuck together.

[musesfool]

It was actually really easy to roll it out and then up again. The slicing was the hard part.

that's lusciously coarse and crunchy, and you can keep it at room temperature and it never gets stuck together.

Ooh, I will have to check - even if Morton Williams doesn't have it, Food Emporium might.

[executrix]

I get mine from the Hispanic superette...or from the dollar store...so if you have one of those around, problem solved!

[musesfool]

I have a Korean deli on the corner? I'll check it out.