Cinnamon Rolls

These cinnamon rolls were delicious!

Ingredients: (for dough) Use a stand up mixer with dough attachment
1 cup warm milk
1/4 cup warm water
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 cup butter, room temp.
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup sugar
5 cups flour
1 pkg. instant dry yeast

Knead for 10 minutes then cover and let rise for 1 hr. Roll out dough to a large rectangle. Then spread the following.....

Filling
1/2 cup softened butter (spread over dough evenly)
1 cup brown sugar (sprinkle over the top of dough and butter)
4 tsp. cinnamon (sprinkle on top)
1 cup walnuts, chopped (opt)

Roll the dough into a large log. Cut into 1 inch thick sections and place on cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes.

Frosting
2 oz. cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup butter
2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1/8 tsp. milk

mix together until thick. When rolls are fresh out of oven spread frosting on top. It will melt and cover the cinnamon rolls.

Oh My Monkey Bread

Ingredients:

4 cans of biscuits

1 cup sugar
1 bowl with 1 cup sugar, 2 tbsp. cinnamon mixed
1 cube butter
1/2 cup chopped pecans (optional)

Directions:

Cut each biscuit into quarters. Then roll each quarter in the Cinnamon-Sugar mix. Drop into a well greased Bunt pan. (Layer in the pecans if you choose to use the pecans) In a saucepan, combine the butter and 1 cup of sugar until it's simmers. Pour over the biscuits in the bunt pan. Bake at 300° for 30 minutes or till golden brown.

Crescent Rolls

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups scalded milk

1 cube butter

2 pkg dry yeast

1/2 cup warm water

1 tsp. sugar

1/2 cup sugar

2 tsp. salt

4-6 cups flour

Directions:

In small saucepan, scald milk. You know it is scalded when it starts to get frothy around the edges but is not yet boiling. Remove from heat and add butter, set aside. In mixer add yeast, warm water and 1 tsp sugar, set aside. Once milk mixture is lukewarm, add remaining sugar and salt. Pour milk mixture into the yeast mixture. Add flour gradually while mixing. Once dough is pulling away from the sides of the mixer, cover with towel and set aside to rise. Once dough has doubled in size, punch it down. Divide it into halves. Roll each section into a circle, cut into triangles using a pizza cutter. Roll and place on greased cookie sheet. Cover and let rise again for 1/2-1hr. Bake at 375 until lightly browned on top. Approx 15 minutes

Sweet Rolls

Ingredients:

warm in a pan:

1 cup milk

1/3 cup sugar

1/3 cup marg

1 tsp. salt

remove from heat an add:

1 pkg. dry yeast, let sit for a few minutes

After mixture has cooled, combine the two following ingredients in a large bowl and add the wet ingredients to it slowly.

2 eggs

4-41/2 cups flour

Directions:

Let rise for 1 hr. and then roll into desired size and rise for an additional 30 minutes. Bake 375 degrees for 20-25 minutes

* This recipe also goes hand-in-hand with Cinna-middles. Before you let the rolls rise the last 30 minutes add the filling in the middle of the rolls and seal it so it doesn't ooze out. Then let rise and bake as directed.