Holiday baking, part 4: Cinnamon rolls!
Recipe from @dolari, half with and have without pecans. I left out the marshmallows.
Icing will wait until tomorrow morning when we reheat them to eat for First Breakfast along with Zoom call to family in Texas.
@TonyaMarie - I was skeptical of the marshmallows, too.
But you'd be surprised how the marshmallows "moisten up" the rolls and give a nice little nutty-sweet taste to the rolls. :)
They look GOOOOOOOOOOOD, though. :)
@dolari My QA department (aka my wife :D) would like to have more filling, so next time I may double the amount of cinnamon sugar and see how that goes. But overall they taste great!
@TonyaMarie - When you rolled yours up, did you do it "long side" first (as the instructions say) or "short side" first, as what common sense seems to say. I kinda think it's supposed to be short side first given how wierd my rolls end up looking....
@dolari I rolled along the long side, which was more difficult and resulted in a smaller diameter roll. Rolling along the short side will give you bigger diameter and therefore fewer total rolls. I wouldn't think it makes a difference in baking, just in the size of each serving.
@TonyaMarie - Ah, thanks. My rolls ended up collapsing under their own weight, sadly. I followed the directions (wait till the dough pulls off the sides of the bowl) instead of my common sense (this feels REALLY soft), so they're going to be very flat rolls.😆
@dolari The dough was very soft, so I rolled it out on parchment, so that after I added the filling I could use a sushi rolling technique to roll the dough up. It still stuck a bit to the parchment, but that technique was way better than it would have been if I were just pulling the dough off of the countertop! I also tossed it into the fridge after rolling, still wrapped in the parchment, so that it would be a bit firmer when I sliced it. I should probably left it longer than I did, but it did help.
@TonyaMarie - I was also concerned in the "number" of rolls, too, that doing it one way would make too many spirals trying to rise, but doing it long ways is LESS spirals, and should be fine.
Math is hard.
@dolari Speaking as a former math teacher, I can in fact confirm that math can be hard. 😁