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In the Kitchen with Cori Cooper- Cinnamon Roll Recipe #YA #Teen #Magic #InTheKitchen #CinnamonRolls #Recipe
My favorite recipe is cinnamon rolls! There is nothing better than the smell of cinnamon rolls baking. My recipe is all in my head, but I’ve found that what goes into them isn’t all that different from any other cinnamon roll recipe, it’s the technique that matters. I’ve tried to describe what I do with SO MUCH detail you’ll be able to do it too. :)
Here’s my recipe!
Cinnamon Rolls
1 TBSP active dry yeast, not instant! Never instant! Nothing amazing ever happens instantly!
1 C. Hot to the touch tap water
1 TBSP Sugar
Combine and let the yeast do its thing for about 10 minutes.
2 C. Whole Milk
1/2 C. Butter
Combine and warm in the microwave until the butter is melted. Let cool until it’s warm to the touch but doesn’t burn your finger. Very important friends! If it burns you it will kill the yeast, remember?
2 Eggs
1/4 C. Sugar
1/2 TBSP Salt
Combine and beat until foamy.
4-6 C. All-purpose Flour
Place all these mixtures into the bowl of a super awesome stand mixer that is made for dough. No names mentioned but it knows who it is. Turn onto low and slowly add the flour. How much flour you need here depends on the day, the weather, how you are standing and if you have done your homework yet today.
This next bit is very important!
You might not use 4 cups or 6 cups. It totally and completely depends! Add it slowly until the dough is slightly sticky to the touch but not shiny and not slimy.
Never ever slimy!
Remove to a large greased bowl to rise for 1 hour.
Filling:
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
3/4 C. White sugar
1/4 C. Cinnamon
1/2 C. Butter, melted
Mix the sugars and cinnamon. Turn the dough out on a floured surface, thick enough that you could write your name in it, and gently roll the dough out until it’s a pretty uniform rectangle. Spread the melted butter to the edges. Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar mixture over the top.
Starting at the long edge, roll the dough slowly over itself. If it is sticky, throw some flour at it and keep rolling. Pinch the edges to keep it together. Slice the unsightly end pieces off to bake into a mini loaf, and then slice the pretty swirls about an inch to an inch and a half thick. Place each slice onto a greased baking sheet, leave plenty of room for them to rise.
Because they will.
Let sit, covered with a towel, for 30 minutes. This is a good time to heat the oven to 375 degrees. Bake each sheet for about 13-17 minutes. They should be golden brown. Remove immediately to a cooling rack.
Didjaknow that bread sweats? Totally does, if you leave the rolls on the hot sheet it will make the dough soggy. Yum, right?
No. That’s a big no.
Remove immediately and cool to the touch before frosting.
Oh wait, do you want to frost them? Of course, you do!
Frosting:
1 pkg Cream Cheese
1 tsp Vanilla
1/4 C. Milk
Powdered Sugar
Mix all the ingredients, then add powdered sugar (2-4 cups) until it is thick but spreadable, creamy, and so beautiful you want to cry. You can admit it if you do, we are all friends here.
Bake Believe
Book One
Cori Cooper
Genre: Teen/YA, Magic
Publisher: Immortal Works Publishing
Date of Publication: November 5, 2020
ISBN: 978-1953491978
ASIN: B08KWMX6BW
Number of pages: 282
Word Count: 78,959
Cover Artist: Immortal Works Art Team
Tagline: What happens when you combine Magic and Baking? Cat Anderson will tell you all about it.
Book Description:
Cat Anderson doesn't want much out of life. Give her a circle of friends to giggle with, a few boys to flirt with, a cute outfit, and she is good to go! She especially could care less about food.
But food, it turns out, is a very big deal.
In Cat's family there is a secret too fantastic to be real. Something happens when Cat bakes.
It’s the last day of summer vacation! I
can’t waste one more minute, second, or millisecond sleeping. This is going to
be the most epically awesome day of all time! Like, so good that awesome looks
at this day and wishes it was this epic. This might sound like a lot of
pressure, but I’m ready. For weeks I’ve been keeping track of the summer stuff
I love to do most, so I could pick out all the best things. Now, I have a
mental list just waiting for me to get to it:
-Go to the pool.
-Use sun lightener on my hair.
-Work on my tan.
-Try something new at the Snack Shack.
-Meet three new boys.
-Give at least one of the boys my phone number.
I am determined to squeeze the most amount
of fun out of every single second of this day. Obviously, I can’t get any of it
done while I’m laying here like a slug! I have to get up and call Robyn.
I roll out of bed, no clue what time it is.
My stinking alarm clock has been tick-tick-ticking away the precious
minutes of my last summer day, so I have been ignoring it with all of my might.
Before I stand up, I smack the clock face down on the nightstand. I should have
done that before. The irritating neon numbers, winking in my peripheral, were
giving me a headache.
And headaches are not epically awesome.
I wonder, would Time stop if I use all my
allowance to send it on a vacation to Hawaii? I can find a beachfront resort
somewhere far away from me and Time can sit next to the ocean with a fruity
little drink. I wouldn’t mind if Time decided to stay there for a couple weeks
even. This could totally work. Even Time must need a break sometimes.
Or maybe not, since that darn clock is
still going at it, just muffled now.
I plop my pillow down on my nightstand, to
shush it even more, and I tiptoe to my bedroom door. As quietly as possible, I
ease it open, so it doesn’t squeak. It does like to squeak sometimes, and I
don’t want to wake anyone up in case it’s super early. For all that trying to
ignore the clock’s tick-tocks, I didn’t actually look at the time.
I’ll just check when I get my phone.
Because of the family ‘no screens in
bedrooms’ rule, my phone spends the night in a basket on the coffee table. Out
of habit, I look both ways before I slip out of my room and into the hall. Not
a creature is stirring. Even so, I prefer to sneak along the walls and slink
around corners like I’m in some big deal spy movie. It’s just more fun that
way. I serpentine down the stairs and army crawl across the living room. When
I’m almost to the coffee table, I execute a super awesome somersault that
leaves me on my back, staring up at the phone basket.
Nailed it.
I reach one arm into the basket and rummage
around until I feel sequins. My phone! The most beautiful creation of turquoise
and silver sparkles, I am very happy to have it in my hand.
I hold the phone above my head, over my
face, while I text. My arms start to fall asleep instantly, but I ignore them,
because this is super important.
About the Author:
Cori Cooper lives in the magical Arizona Mountains, which she’s pretty convinced is the setting for all the fairy tales.
Besides writing stories, she adores hanging out with her family, playing board games, hiking and baking, baking, baking. Like Cat’s family, she’s positive Cinnamon Rolls fix everything.
You can connect with Cori on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads and her website – Coristories.com.
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