Christmas Cinnamon Rolls

At long last, here is the much anticipated post of our annual tradition - Christmas cinnamon rolls! I don't have the recipe in front of me, so for now you shall have to content yourself with pictures.

Every good cook knows you have to start out with some awesome music.


Now on to the recipe. Let's start out with the dough:

Proofing the yeast.

Sprinkling the flour. Gotta love the action shots.

Pouring in the melted butter.

Adding the egg. Yup, camera in one hand, egg in the other. That takes talent.

Sugar. Probably the most you'll put in a single recipe all year through.

Nope, this isn't extra sugar. It's salt. But I'm assuming you knew that already, because you would've looked closely to see if you could tell.

Now mix, mix, mix that dough. This is the part that earns you muscle!

After it's all mixed up, you let it rise. This is what it looks like after rising is complete. Yeast dough - best fragrance ever.

Roll, roll, roll the dough, gently down the...oh, wait. Wrong lyrics.

Getting it to just the right thickness.



Lots of butter to make the sugar stick!

Time to mix up the cinnamon and sugar:

Cinnamon and brown sugar.

Sprinkling cinnamon and sugar.

Spreading it around - you wouldn't want any lonely dough!

Dissecting a cinnamon log.

I think this is where the roll part of cinnamon roll comes in.

Now is when you stick 'em in the fridge to rise overnight. In the morning, you pop them into the oven and they're done in fifteen minutes!

They're almost ready to be introduced to the love of their life...icing.

This is the part that makes a cinnamon roll a cinnamon roll, and not just cinnamon-sugar bread. Say hello to the slightly-orange-flavoured icing.

Mmmmmm.

Go ahead, rub it in.

Lots of sticky, light, sugary delights

There's a reason we only have these once a year.


And for fun, some cute pictures of one of my most adorable kitchen helpers!

Nope, you can't have her.

What a cutie!

The look of innocence. "Who, me? I didn't do anything!"