Cinnomon Rolls

Ingrediants:

2 sticks butter
plenty of brown sugar
ground cinnomon

dental floss- to cut the rolls with

My family loves Cinnimin rolls and my version is one of their favorites.

For the dough I use my basic bread recipe. Trust me you will not regret making them with whole wheat. Eventhough these lovely treats have plenty of sugar you'll have the nutrition of the whole wheat, which in my book completely negates all the calories gained from the sugar.

To start make a batch of my "Basic Bread" recipe. After you have made the recipe put down enough vegtable oil on you counter to stop the dough from sticking, then put your dough out on your counter, or work surface. "Punch down" the dough to make sure that there are no air bubbles. Cut off a piece, about 3"X 8", the size you cut will determine the size your rolls endup to be. you must make sure that you have plenty of veg. oil on your rolling surface or you dough will stick.

Shape your piece so that it resembles a loaf, then roll out your dough. You want to roll it out so that the dough is about 1/4" to 1/3" thick. Again the thickness of your dough will determine the size of your rolls. So if you want larger rolls, leave your dough a little of the thicker side, but you don't want it too thick or you will have more dough and less of the cinnomon/sugar/sweetness.

After you have the dough rolled into a long rectangle you want to spread melted butter generously over rolled dough.

Next spread brown sugar over the length of the dough. Leave edges of dough free, but just about 3/4", so that when you roll the dough it can stick to its self.

Now that the sugar is spread spinkle on the cinnomon, remember you have control put as much or as little as you want.

You can also add raisins at this point if you like raisins in your cinnomon rolls.

Now that all ingredients are in start rolling your dough. just start at one end and continue rolling to the other end. Continue in this way until you have all of you dough rolled into one long roll.

Now cut one long string of dental floss. Use the dental floss rap it around your roll of dough and bring it arought the intire roll and cross the two ends keep tightening the floss until it "cuts" the dough into a slice. Continue slicing the dough in this way until you have sliced the entire roll.

Place rolls on a cookie sheet that has been covered with parchment paper. Cover rolls, set them aside, and allow rolls to double in size before cooking.

And cook at 350 degrees for about 16-18 mins. A little longer if you make your rolls very big.
After cooking is done I pull my rolls off the hot pans and on to a cooling rack, keeping them on the parchment paper.

After the rolls are cool, or not, spread on your favorite cream cheese spread or try my cinnomon roll spread.

These are treats that everyone enjoys and they are easy to make. I am sure your family will love them as much as mine.