Recipe: Cinnamon Buns

This is for my brother Billy who says he is sick of our old cinnamon roll recipe.

This is from Great American Recipes with some additions from me.

I do have pictures of the last time we made these, but I guess I left them at home.

Dough
3 cups (roughly) of all purpose flour (the recipe calls for 4 to 4 1/2 cups of flour but that is too much.)
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 1/4 (or one envelope) of yeast
1/2 cup hot milk
1/4 cup of butter
1 large egg

Filling
1 to 2 sticks of butter
1tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup brown sugar

Combine 1 cup of flour, sugar, salt and yeast in a large bowl. Add 1/4 cup hot water, milk, and butter. Beat until combined, then about 1 minute longer. Beat in the egg.

Stir in the remaining flour until a soft dough forms. Knead until smooth and elastic (til it looks like a cabbage patch doll head) Place the dough in a greased bowl and turn it once to grease the top. Cover and let rise until double in size. (The recipe says this takes about 45 minutes but our kitchen is cold so we have to heat the dough in the oven and then let it rise for about an hour and a half)

Grease a large baking pan. Punch the dough down. Roll the dough out on a floured surface into a rectangle roughly 16 X 12. Sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon. Dot butter on. (Don't use spreadable butter, I learned the hard way that it wont work.) Roll up the dough starting with one long edge. Press the seam to seal.

Cut into 15 slices using dental floss. (Slide the floss under the dough, pull up and cross to cut) Arrange cut side up in the baking pan. Cover and chill overnight (or for three hours if you want these the same day)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Uncover the slices (We forgot this step one time and cooked the Saran wrap to the rolls. Oddly we didn't realise what we hat done until after we ate about 5 rolls.) Let the rolls stand at room temperature until they are golden brown. the recipe says this takes 30to 40 minutes but in my experience it has only taken 15 minutes.

Let cool on baking sheet and cover with icing. (Sorry I don't know the recipe for the icing.)