Cinnamon Rolls- Yummo! The Pioneer Woman Cooks-eggless

I found a friend.
I found a friend who is easy to bring in,easy on the palate and makes me less feel a little guilty.I found a friend in Cinnamon Rolls.
Cinnamon rolls that are pushing me to blog today.The vacations really sapped out my words.After the post on the Peach Vodka,I'm sure most of you must have assumed that I was not visible only because I must have downed all that vodka and was supporting a hangover.
Ha!
Unfortunately no! Duty beckons me .
I'm more beauty bound!
Beauty of books.
And of Cinnamon Rolls.

School term has begun.Its not the 100 odd children that sap the words out of me,it is the humidity. North India has been going through the worst spells of monsoons this year.
So warm and humid.
The heat -one can bear,the humidity which averages at 85% with an average temperature of 42-45 degrees Centigrade-translated to degree Fahrenheit-we have been subjected from 108-115 F.
So sitting in front of the laptop does not seem to be such a lucrative way to pass my time.
Simple and sweet and buttery and cinnamony...
Yummo!
And Easy!
No Kneading,just stirring and then pressing flat and rolling and cutting.
And baking-but of course!
And the heavenly aromas floating and threatening to take me straight to heaven.

Got this from the pioneer woman cooks,sweet sister is a big ,big fan and has been waxing eloquent about these.
I just had to make them,and I was so rewarded.
Took me all of 15 minutes.
And happiness.

Try these,if you need to lift humidity soaked spirits.
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Cinnamon Rolls- Yummo! The Pioneer Woman Cooks...


you need


2 cups milk
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
4 cups plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda/bicarbonate of soda
2 1/2 tsp yeast
1 tsp salt

extra flour to roll the dough
3-4 tbsp cinnamon powder
1/2 cup granulated sugar
75 mils melted butter.
3-4 tbsp-heaped icing sugar
1/4 cup milk
2 tsp coffee made with coffee powder and hot water
Maple Syrup -if you have any

Start with a large-ish bowl in which you need to place the milk ,sugar and oil.Heat it till it just scalds. That is ,almost comes to the boil. Set aside to cool till just warm to the touch and add the yeast. Let the yeast react for about 10-15 minutes.

The yeast didn't do too much magic. Thought that it had become limp and old and past it.However,basic science.The oil forms a film to cut off the oxygen,so no worries.

Dump in the flour -around 3/4 of the total amount at this stage and stir in.

Mix it  in and add in the remaining flour too and set aside,till the dough is sticky and double. In the meanwhile ,I cooked and supervised sweet child's homework and kept an eye on the dough.
It never rose so much-all that blah about the watched pot and all...
So I went ahead and did the rest...
Add a slightly heaped tsp of baking powder,a little less  of a tsp of baking soda/bicarb of soda and a little less of the tsp of salt and stir together.

Now pop it out onto the work top-cleaned and liberally sprinkled with flour.

Roll it out into a rectangle that is almost a foot -12 inches by 8 inches.I didn't use my rolling pin- I used my hands.

Melted butter,I used only 50 mils of the butter.

Cinnamon powder that I sifted over with the help of a tea strainer.Yes,my blender/dry grinder jar is not super efficient-but we manage.

And now the sugar.Cant see it in all the golden glory.

Rolled along the length with the help of my bench scraper...

And placed in a butter greased round baking tray. This one came with my new microwave cum convection oven.The rolls need to be cut at an inch thick and placed a wee bit away from each other.They need a little time to grow.

A little extra left over,placed in small tart moulds.

Oven on at 175C/350F .In the while that the oven took to heat up,the rolls grew a bit and I popped them in for 25 minutes.
Topping/frosting.
Icing sugar,about 15-20 mils of the melted butter ...

Coffee and about a couple of tablespoons of milk.Blend and ready to pour as soon as the rolls are out.

I waited only 5 minutes and poured the frosting over the rolls. The rolls were sticky and warm and buttery and sweet and cinnamony and yummo!

Nigella Lawson type midnight snack...
A coffee and the lighter than light roll.
So wicked that you never noticed them disappear...

And morning after...
Just the touch of the sunlight,in time for my morning cuppa.
What a wonderful day.
So worth the effort-which was almost none...
And they kept me going for 3 days...
Ready to bake again...
Especially now that it is raining...

Try these...you wont be disappointed.


So what are you baking today???