When I posted a pic of my carrot cake someone asked me, "what are those little doo dads in the muffin tins..." well here they are. I'll also post my recipe for puff pastry for any of you REALLY inclined to stick your necks out.
Safeway has the Pillsbury crossiant dough on sale 2 for $3.00 so I made a batch of these today, I was already making myself a carrot cake so I figured WHY NOT have the cinnamon rolls too...
Mis en place:
1 package Pillsbury Crossiant dough
1/4 stick butter
1 stick butter, semi cold
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup white sugar
1 Tbls. cinnamon
1 cup finely chopped pecans
Grease muffin tins with the 1/4 stick butter and set aside.
Preheat oven to 400. Dust work surface with a generous amount of flour, open dough tube and unroll dough onto floured board. Let rest at room temp about 5 minutes. Meanwhile in a large mixing bowl combine 2nd group of ingredients until you have a crumbly mass... Now spread that mass onto the lower 3/4s of the dough. Carefully and tightly roll the dough and mass together into a log. Pull that log so it is about 14 inches long. Cut slices off the log that are about 1 to 1 1/2 inches long and place these in butter muffin tins. Let rest about 15 minutes to give dough a change to puff up and then slide into 400 degree oven for 12-15 minutes.
Make a frosting of 1 cup powdered sugar and a couple tablespoons of orange juice. Remove rolls from baking tin to a plate and drizzle on frosting while the rolls are hot.
Safeway has the Pillsbury crossiant dough on sale 2 for $3.00 so I made a batch of these today, I was already making myself a carrot cake so I figured WHY NOT have the cinnamon rolls too...
Mis en place:
1 package Pillsbury Crossiant dough
1/4 stick butter
1 stick butter, semi cold
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup white sugar
1 Tbls. cinnamon
1 cup finely chopped pecans
Grease muffin tins with the 1/4 stick butter and set aside.
Preheat oven to 400. Dust work surface with a generous amount of flour, open dough tube and unroll dough onto floured board. Let rest at room temp about 5 minutes. Meanwhile in a large mixing bowl combine 2nd group of ingredients until you have a crumbly mass... Now spread that mass onto the lower 3/4s of the dough. Carefully and tightly roll the dough and mass together into a log. Pull that log so it is about 14 inches long. Cut slices off the log that are about 1 to 1 1/2 inches long and place these in butter muffin tins. Let rest about 15 minutes to give dough a change to puff up and then slide into 400 degree oven for 12-15 minutes.
Make a frosting of 1 cup powdered sugar and a couple tablespoons of orange juice. Remove rolls from baking tin to a plate and drizzle on frosting while the rolls are hot.
