Two Kid Schoolhouse
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Nov. 25, 2006
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Whenever I start to think I'm so smart...
I learn, quickly, that I'm not.
Last week I had apparently "promised" to make cinnamon buns. At least that's what E tells me. I remember talking about the possibility of having company for breakfast on Friday and saying that maybe we could make real cinnamon buns. But I know I did not promise. I am careful never to promise.
Anyway, this morning I decided to make easy cinnamon buns - the kind made with biscuit dough. Because I am a very health-conscious mom (insert snort of derision here), I decided to use whole wheat pastry flour instead of white. (Reality: to use white flour I would have had to walk downstairs and move some flour from the giant bucket into a smaller container. My regular white flour canister is half-full of self-rising flour I'd mistakenly put into it. So I'm just lazy.)
The recipe said the dough would be a little sticky at first. But it never got unsticky. Undaunted (so far), I pressed on and happily sprinkled my cinnamon/clove/sugar mixture, some walnuts, and butter over my near-perfect rectangle of dough. Then I started rolling...
The dough was so soft and sticky that it wouldn't roll. C finally came over to help me, using a scraper to lift the dough so I could roll it. But holes kept appearing and filling kept leaking out. It was a mess. Finally we got it into some semblance of a roll shape, but of course I couldn't cut it into nice neat slices.
So the scent that is wafting out of the oven now is not of lovely cinnamon buns, with their spirals of luscious filling. It is the scent of cinnamon/walnut blobs - rounds of dough mushed together into the baking pan. It looks like something I used to have as a kid - cinnamon pull-aparts or something like that - that we made with tubes of biscuit dough.
They actually look pretty good. And I suspect that once they are glazed they will taste good too. Not as aesthetically pleasing as the real thing, but don't think anyone will turn one down because of it.
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