Cinnamon Buns and Where is Spring?

Yesterday was very cold, VERY cold!  I survived, I pet kitties, I read my book, I rode the bus, but mostly I froze.  Phoenix's school bus didn't come.  What is with the school buses? They seem to be pretty unreliable which is complete garbage since there are kids sitting out in the cold waiting for them.  They have a website for bus statuses but it is never accurate for his bus.  I don't get it.  I just hope it gets warmer soon.  Spring is still a thing right??

I spent an hour on the treadmill again yesterday.  Honestly, the internet is the best workout buddy!  With all the baking I have done and good foods I have been making I need to spend more time on it, the treadmill not the internet.

Here is my treadmill set up with some random YouTube video playing on my iPad to keep my mind busy so I don't get bored.  Love it!

I will put up the Brie and Chutney I did on the weekend but I'll do it in a separate blog for simplicity.  I'll be posting those peanut butter marshmallow things tomorrow.  Damn, they are so good.  I can't wait until they are all gone I just wish someone else was eating them because I eat them all the time! It's a problem.

Here is how I make Cinnamon Buns.

I use the extra dough from making bread but you can make up dough just for this if you want a lot of them.  This is my bread recipe Mom's Bread and here is how I make it.

Gather what you need.  This is pretty simple I just use cinnamon, brown sugar, and butter or margarine.  You can also add nuts or raisins if you like.

Get our your rolling pin.  Try to make a rectangle that is about 1 cm thick more or less.

Using your hands, smear the entire rectangle with margarine.

Next comes the brown sugar, leave some room on the end so you can seal the roll up easier. 

Now the cinnamon, you can go a little nuts with this if you like cinnamon.

Now start rolling.  Once you get to the end you can pull the dough and wrap it up over the end to make it stick better.

Like this.  Now you are ready to start cutting your rolls.

Butter your pan so it's ready to go. 

You can just use a knife to cut the rolls but if you find that is too hard you can use thread or dental floss.  Just work the floss under the roll, cross the ends you are holding and pull and you'll have a nice cut roll without the tearing or squashing from the knife.

Let your rolls rise just like the bread.

Bake them until they are just golden on top.  These are best eaten warm right out of the oven but you can heat them up for 20 seconds in the microwave to get the same warm and gooey buns if needed.

Be sure not to over bake them or you'll have hard buns that will stick to your tray.  Not fun!  Alternately, you can use a cinnamon and sugar butter to grease your tray and it will make a glaze on top of the buns when you turn them out.