Cinnamon Rolls

These were not the yummiest. In fact, I will never make these again. Homemade cinnamon rolls do in fact need yeast to be amazing. But the point of a blog is to post the recipes you cook, even the ones that weren't good. This is a recipe I found on food.com with a different icing recipe. The icing was great; I'll definitely use that again.

Also, I apologize for the lack of pictures. As you can see at the end, my boyfriend had the camera while I was cooking. Silly boyfriends, pictures are for cooks.

Dough Ingredients:

2 cups flour
2 tbsp sugar
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
3 tbsp butter, softened
3/4 cup milk

Mix together the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt. Add the softened butter with your hands.

There's me. I was having a good hair day; I love those. Add in the milk (as I am here) and stir thoroughly. I used a rubber scraper for all of the mixing for this; I like pastries mixed by hand, I'm not sure why.

Flour the counter generously. Roll out the dough into a rectangle about 1/4 inch thick. It can just chill on the counter while you make the filling.

Filling Ingredients:

4 tbsp butter 

1 cup brown sugar 

3 tsp cinnamon 

The butter should be soft to create a loose mixture; combine all ingredients, adding more or using less to taste.

Cover the rectangle with the filling and then roll it up. Slice into as big of pieces as you want. I got 12 good sized rolls out of the deal.

Allow to cool mostly before putting icing on top.

Icing Ingredients:

2 cups powdered sugar 

1-3 tbsp half-and-half cream

1 tsp vanilla extract

 Mix together sugar and half-and-half; I used about 2 tablespoons. Add the vanilla and stir well. I just used a tablespoon for the icing. Allow to sit and thick a bit while the rolls cool and then give it a good stir before pouring on top.

 This is my brother, Tony. He's making ramen because I won't feed him. You really pity him, don't you?

This is me finally realizing my boyfriend had my camera. Him you might actually want to pity. That "what the hell" look is something he receives uncommonly often.

They look good, right? I hate that they were not good. Oh, well. C'est la vie, my dears.

You'll hear again from me about cooking next week; Saturday is another Keep It Real post. (I have some sweet pictures for that.) My boyfriend leaves for college on my birthday--great birthday present, right?--so my best friend is coming down to see me on the 8th and leaving the 10th to keep me company and celebrate my birthday a day late and see other people and other exciting things. But she and I are making imitation Panera mac and cheese and blueberry cheesecake cookies and other comforting foods. She really knows how to cheer me up, that girl.

Keep stirring, loves!