Sunday, October 3, 2010

Conference weekend = cinnamon rolls

I love conference weekend.  Watching conference together as a family is an uplifting spiritual experience, and it's good cuddle time too!  Something I look forward to is when David and Trey go to the Priesthood session together and Allie and I make cinnamon rolls together.  It's been a fun tradition for us.  We usually watch something like The Biggest Loser or Chopped while we wait for the dough to rise and then by time the boys come home the house smells like cinnamonny deliciousness.

This year was a little different.  We were chatting away while we added ingredients and when it came time to combine the two it was obvious there was a problem.  Hmmm, what's wrong with the dough, it's all liquidy and not pulling away from the bowl?  Ahhh!  With much discussion we realize that we made the following mistakes:

1 cup of brown sugar was added that was meant for the cinnamon filling
1/2 c. of butter was added instead of 1/4 c.

Instead of dumping it out we go ahead and make them for a comparison to the real thing.   We then made another batch, this time double checking our measurements and not chatting as much.  The messed up version did not rise at all but we went ahead and baked them with our good batch.  This morning Tanner and Sydney tried one of each and said the messed up one "wasn't too bad".

                    Allie, wearing the 100% party girl apron, hand sifting the flour with a cheese grater

Can you tell the good from the bad?

1 comment:

Sharlene, Mom, Grammy said...

What a fun post. I can smell those cinnamon rolls from here. Don’t throw away any of the bad ones cause you know your Dad will eat them and think they are perfect. :) Love all the pictures! So cute. What a wonderfully fun tradition! Perfect for conference weekend.

PS ~ I recognized that apron the minute I saw it. :)