6.30.2013
Cinnamon Rolls from Scratch
Here are some things you should know about me:
1. I am very lazy
2. I am very ambitious.
3. These two characteristics are often at odds with each other in my brain.
I would love to be a master baker. But baking often requires patience and precise measurements and planning ahead and the ambitious part of my brain is like, "What a challenge! Let's get to it! It will feel so good when you're done!" while the lazy part of my brain is like, "Hahahahahaha no though." The ambitious part of my brain is totally right, but the lazy part of my brain gets more exercise, so it usually wins by sheer force, like a dumb 4th grader beating up a smart kindergartener.
Last weekend, my friend Abby was having a brunch, and she asked me to make something. Immediately, the following exchange occurred:
Ambitious Brain: "Wow, how fun! Let's take this as an opportunity to make something really fantastic that will knock everyone's socks off!"
Lazy Brain: "That sounds stupid."
Ambitious Brain: "No, no. It will be great. What about cinnamon buns from scratch? Just like the ones Dad makes?"
Lazy Brain: "Yeah k I'll get the dough in the can on Sunday morning."
Ambitious Brain: "No, no, no! We'll learn so much about ourselves if we bake them from scratch! It will take such a long time and have many complicated steps and involve yeast! It will be so fulfilling!"
Lazy Brain: "Be quiet. I'm looking at Buzzfeed."
All of that changed, though, when I reconciled the conflicting halves of my brain with this recipe for easy cinnamon buns from Sally's Baking Addiction. They require only one rise, and bake to light, fluffy, sugary perfection in only 25 minutes. It was a beautiful compromise.
Most cinnamon roll recipes are going to require two rises of the dough, often necessitating making the dough overnight. Not these puppies. It still took about two hours total to make them, but that was a much easier pill to swallow for Lazy Brain, and it made for a productive Sunday morning (the new Kanye album is a great baking soundtrack, just saying).
For the full recipe, please see the original source at sallysbakingaddiction.com.
Now feel free to ogle the results of my brain-pleasing labor:
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I want these. Right now.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure how well they'd travel cross-country, but hey, it's worth a try! Think I can just stuff them in a manila envelope?
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