Quick Before I Get Sidetrack'd

I’ve spent most of the last few days up to my eyeballs in flour, sugar, and various other things associated with cooking. My kitchen spent the weekend covered in a fine layer of flour, cinnamon, and powdered sugar. I honestly believe that between Thursday and Sunday I used every single baking utensil (mixing bowls, measuring cups and spoons, etc) in my kitchen at least once and many of them multiple times. My Kitchenaid stand mixer is probably very grateful that it has been able to hang out in its cabinet all day long today.

On Thursday I embarked on a new kitchen adventure when I decided to try making homemade cinnamon rolls. I found a recipe at The Pioneer Woman Cooks a while back and have been planning to make them as part of the Christmas cooking. My original intention was to make enough to give as gifts but thought I should make enough to for us to try them out before I inflicted them on our unsuspecting friends. Let me just tell you, these things were amazing!

It took about three hours total (work and rise time) and made a huge mess, but when Matt, my cinnamon-roll-critic in residence, said how good they were I knew it was worth it. Unfortunately, due to time constraints, my unsuspecting friends will have to wait until another time to try them. The original recipe yields about 70 cinnamon rolls; I made 1/4 of the recipe and had 18 rolls, a pan-full perfect for weekend breakfasts.

These rolls are melt-in-your-mouth, slap-your-momma (figuratively, of course) good! They are not, by any means, low in calories, but, come on, it is Christmas time.