Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Pioneer Woman's Cinnamon Rolls

Have you ever made the Pioneer Woman's Cinnamon Rolls?
If you haven't....you need to! They are A-mazing!
On Monday, a few girlfriends and I made over 300 of them!
When I got the Pioneer Woman's cookbook for Christmas last year, I knew I wanted to make her cinnamon rolls. So, when my friend Becky sent out an email last month to myself & a few of our friends asking if we all wanted to get together and make them, I said Yes!

We met Monday morning at our friend Susan's house.
Everyone had different assignments on what to bring.
One batch of cinnamon rolls makes about 7 tins (with about 8 Cinnamon Rolls in each tin)
Because there were 6 of us who were making them, we 6x the recipe.
That makes A LOT of Cinnamon rolls! But the thought was to keep some for our families & give some to friends & neighbors!

The night before Becky & Susan made the dough (which I was very thankful for because whenever I use yeast, it is a fail)

The first step is to roll out the dough...work it Becky!
Then pour 1.5 cups of melted butter on it like Susan is doing:
Then sprinkle sugar & cinnamon and roll it up!
Then, slice them up!
The middle ones turned out best!
Put them in a buttered tin & then bake them!
After you bake them, you make the glaze...which is full of powdered sugar, coffee & maple flavoring.
YUM. YUM. YUM.
I am not a big frosting person, but this stuff was GOOD!
Here are some more pictures from the morning!
Kelly & Bridgette:
The boys helped out for a little bit:
Kate looking on (we had my younger sister come to watch some of the younger kids because between all of us, there were 10 kids there)
Kelly perfected the rolling & cutting, look how pretty this batch is!
The table of cinnamon rolls waiting to go into the oven:

Chaos in the kitchen:
So much fun!
2 hours later, we had 45 tins of cinnamon rolls!
Which is over 300 rolls!
These are perfect to make before the holidays because they freeze great & they make a great gift to give to neighbors & friends...wrap them in cellophane, but a bow around it & Viola! you have a perfect holiday treat!

(Partial) Group shot:
It was such a fun morning & we are going to do this every year before Thanksgiving!
Hooray for new Traditions!
Making Cinnamon Rolls is fun & easy, especially when you make it with a fun group of friends!
Can't wait to make them again next year!

11 comments:

  1. THat sounds like a great tradition! They look soooooo good!

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  2. What a great idea! What's better than good friends and good food? Yummy!

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  3. YUM! i'm living in Africa and forced to learn to make lots of things from scratch. i made paula deen's cinnamon rolls a week ago, but i've heard excellent things about PW's. i think i'll have to try those next.

    ...and i'm with you on the yeast thing. so frustrating!!

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  4. I LOVE her cinnamon roll recipe! I actually have 3 or 4 pans in my freezer right now! I hold off on the icing though until I rewarm them then I can switch it up and go from the coffee icing, to maple to cream cheese or whatever I want at the time.

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  5. I am forwarding this post to some of my girlfriends! We are doing this same thing Next Friday!!! Yay! And I heart PW! I met her at her book signing last year - and was starstruck! Happy Thanksgiving!

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  6. I think I just gained 5 lbs reading this! :0 Looks delish!!! And what fun to make them with friends!

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  7. Just the title of your post made me smile! They are wonderful - absolutely the best I have ever made. So fun to have fun friends who will cook with you!

    Just curious...how many cups of flour did you gals go through? :)

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  8. So cute. Love all the action shots. :) I'm so grateful for you, friend, and your sweet and delightful family. Happy Thanksgiving!

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  9. how much fun! they look AMAZING! will have to try them out christmas morning. :)

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  10. I love her cookbook. I haven't tried the cinnamon buns yet, they have been on my to do list for a while. I love that you got to bake them for the first time with friends. How fun.

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  11. I can smell the cinnamon rolls through this post! Seriously so dangerous, because I'd probably eat all 300 of them! Glad they are in your post and not in my house-2 weeks out and I'm ready to get rid of the baby weight, got enough rolls! ;)

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