It's here!!! My ooey-gooey sticky buns! Enjoy!

Quick Cinnamon Rolls

6 doz 3 doz 2 doz

Warm water 3 ½ cups 1 ¾ cup 1 cup 3 tab

Sugar ¾ cup 6 Tab ¼ cup

Oil 1 cup ½ cup 1/3 cup

Yeast 6 Tab 3 Tab 2 Tab

Mix warm water, sugar, oil and yeast together and let sit for 15 minutes. This allows yeast to start working and rise. It will grow a lot.

Eggs 3 1 or 2 1

Salt 1 Tab ½ Tab 1 tea

Flour 10 ½ C. 5 ¼ C. 3 ½ C.

Add eggs salt and flour to above mixture. Stir in a little at a time. Knead a little to get the rest of the flour in.

Roll out for dinner rolls or cinnamon rolls. If dinner rolls, form and put butter on dough before rolling into rolls.

If cinnamon rolls: melt butter and spread over dough. Sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon or use combined cinnamon sugar. You can also add raisins or chopped nuts. Roll up and cut.

Place on greased cookie sheet. Let rise 15 or more minutes. Bake in 375 degree oven for 10-15 minutes. Remove to cooking racks or wax paper. Ice with icing after removing from trays.

Cinnamon Roll Frosting (Use this one!)

4 oz cream cheese, softened

1/2 c butter, softened

1 3/4 c powdered sugar

1 tsp vanilla flavor

1/8 tsp lemon flavor

1/2 tsp salt

Whip the cream cheese and butter till fluffy. Add powdered sugar one cup at a time. Add the vanilla flavor, lemon flavor and salt and whip for 1minute

Icing (This is more of a glaze)

¼ cup butter

2 cups powdered sugar

¼ cup milk

1 tea vanilla

Combine and glaze rolls.

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Now for step by step photos of what they should look like.

Knead the dough by hand, food processor, or your dough setting on your bread machine. If you're having a rough day kneading by hand can help you get your frustrations out and can be a little therapeutic :)

Roll out your dough onto a clean countertop or surface. I use a pastry board because our apartment's countertops do NOT look trustworthy. Then using a knife (or in my case a silicone basting brush) liberally spread the desired amount of melted butter across the entire dough surface. Make sure the dough is rolled into the closest resembling shape of a rectangle as you can get it to.

Then by hand crumble brown sugar across the dough's surface. I use light or dark brown sugar, it just depends on what I have in my pantry or what mood I'm in.

Now lightly sprinkle cinnamon across the dough's surface. This is the third layer (butter, brown sugar, then cinnamon). You can add sliced or crumbled nuts if you want to. I'm allergic, but I can imagine walnuts or pecans would be great with this recipe.

Now begin to roll the dough tightly until it looks like . . .

THIS! Now you can use a knife, floss, or my personal favorite, a pastry scraper to cut out your sticky buns!

Have your pan ready and greased. It is also smart to preheat the oven now, if you haven't done so.

Place rolls next to each other and using your thumb press the center down. When pan is full place into preheated oven and follow the directions above.

If you don't press the center down it will look like the cinnamon roll on the right in this picture.

Now you FROST! You can frost in the pan while they are still warm so it melts, or you can plate the rolls and then frost to the desired amount.

Well I hope you enjoy! I know I'm going to make these next week for the 180th Semi-annual General Conference (check out lds.org or mormon.org if interested)