Due to circumstances beyond my control, I was never really taught "how" to cook. My real cooking experience basically started at 15 and was limited to whatever my dad would purchase at the store and cook himself, or leave for me to cook for dinner. These dinners usually consisted of anything easy that I could bake in the oven and cook on the stove top. I never cooked or baked anything from scratch. It all came from a box or a can and was paired with things like baked chicken and pork chops. We didn't complain simply because we just didn't know any better.
My mother was a wonderful cook, but she was a working mother of 4 and just did not have the time to make the majority of her cooking from scratch. I know that had her life not ended when it did, she would have gladly taught me to be a better cook.
The cast of characters are flour, milk, oil, baking powder, baking soda, yeast (never cooked with yeast before today), sugar, cinnamon, butter, salt, coffee, maple flavoring, and powdered sugar. If you have most of these items, you can make them too! Don't worry if you don't have the maple flavoring and coffee, you can substitute the maple flavoring with vanilla and leave out the coffee.
Avery helped my measure the oil, sugar and milk.
We scalded this on the stove and let it cool for about an hour and a half.
While the first mixture was cooling, Avery measured 8 cups of flour.
After the mixture cooled, but was still warm, Cooper added two packets of yeast. We let the yeast set and absorb some of the moisture.
Now we added the 8 cups of flour and began to stir.
Cooper began to stir and stir.
The dough began to thicken as we stirred. "Avery, put some muscle into it girl!"
After mixing, we rolled out half of the dough, added butter, sugar and cinnamon. Which I photographed by the way, but it didn't look very pretty, so I didn't post it. If I could post a scratch and sniff picture I would have, and you would have scratched a hole in your screen. That's how yummy and divine it smelled!
After we rolled up the dough and watched the butter, sugar and cinnamon ooze all over my kitchen counter like lava from a volcano, we cut them up and put them in the pans to bake away. Then we got started on the icing! The icing consisted of 2lbs. of powdered sugar, 1/2 cup melted butter, 2 tsp. maple flavoring, 1/4 cup brewed coffee, and 1/2 cup of milk. Brenna and Cooper stirred it all together and we poured it over the warm rolls as they came out of the oven.
Cooper asked for these for supper, then for a snack after supper and for breakfast the next day. What, no Cheerios with sugar and milk?
This recipe made eight pans for me. I know there are only 6 1/2 in the photo. We had samples out of the partially empty pan you see here and took one to our neighbors. We took another pan to our other neighbors next door and will take 4 more to our Sunday School class in the morning. I hope they like them as much as I enjoyed making them with my kids.
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Thanks for the website! I've bookmarked it and can't wait to try out some of the recipes
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