Amazing Cinnamon Rolls

This is the only picture I can find of the Cinnamon Roll! Weird I don't have a picture of it cooked or frosted. Hopefully I can edit these pictures with watermarks and frosting later. (it means I get to make more cinnamon rolls, which seems to be a popular request on fb today)

Cinnamon Rolls Teresa Moon

4 c. warm water (110°)

1 1/8 c. oil                     Mix first 4 ingredients let rest 15 min if you don’t see the yeast

1 c. sugar                        raising then it might be dead! And you will need to start again.

6 Tbsp. yeast

4 tsp. salt                 3 eggs                     10-13 c. flour

Mix last remaining ingredients together. Separate into 2 balls let rise for 10 min. Roll out the first ball on a floured countertop roll it thin about ¼ inch thick onto a rectangle. Preheat oven to 350°.  Get ½ cube of margarine or butter and some brown sugar and cinnamon. Melt the margarine and cover the rolled out dough in a thin layer of butter and then cover with brown sugar and some cinnamon. Cut the dough in half then in 12 strips 6 on each side. Take your first strip fold it in half and twist the strip and then roll into the cinnamon roll shape tuck the edge under and pinch it so it will stay tucked. Do this with all 12 strips. I put 6 rolls on each cookie sheet after they are on the cookie sheet let them raise for about 10 more minutes and then bake 350° for 10-13 min. Let them cool frost them and enjoy!!!

This is how I roll out my cinnamon rolls I know it looks a little odd but I promise it makes sure you get a little sugary in every bite and no just bread bites.

 I use a plastic knife to cut on my table :) 

 Twist and shout!!

Lets be honest the worst cupcakes, breads, or cookies can be made AMAZING with the perfect frosting! Pile it on and love the goodness :) 

Freakin’ amazing cinnamon roll frosting!!

Teresa Moon

1 lb butter, softened ( ½ butter and ½ margarine is fine too)

1 bag powder sugar 4-6 cups

1 cap vanilla

1 cap almond

8 oz. cream cheese, softened

Beat cream cheese and butter together add the vanilla and almond and then slowly add the powdered sugar. Frost your cinnamon rolls and enjoy!

Foodie Friday: Easy breakfast

Are your mornings ever crazy and hectic?  Do you ever feel bad just giving the kids cereal everyday?  I sure do!  Mornings are always busy with school now because I like to sleep as long as I can.  So here's my solution:  freezer meals!!  What I do is one day, usually a Saturday or Sunday, when I actually have time to make breakfast, I make a double or triple batch of whatever I have planned.  It really isn't much extra work to make extra pancakes or waffles.  Then whatever doesn't get eaten, I throw in a freezer bag and freeze.  Then the kids can just grab them and throw them in the microwave, add butter and syrup.  I also do breakfast burritos and pancake muffins.  It makes it nice that they can have a variety and I don't have to cook every day!!

Pumpkin Week: Pumpkin Pancakes with Cinnamon Syrup

Hey everyone Tiffany here! So this week is all about pumpkin and I found this recipe off of tastesbetterfromscratch.com and it was so good that I just had to share. If you love pumpkin then you will love these.

Pumkin pancakes with cinnamon syrup
Yields 6

• 1 cup flour
• 1 1/2 Tbsp brown sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp all spice
• 1/2 tsp cinnamob
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
• 1 egg
• 1Tbsp oil
• 1Tbsp vinegar

In a bowl combine dry ingredients and set aside. Combine wet ingredients in a bowl and then add your dry ingredients to the pumpkin mixture and mix. Heat an oiled pan or griddle on medium high heat. Pour 1/4 cup batter for each pancake. Each side should be a lightly browned. Serve hot.

Cinnamon syrup

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 2 Tbsp flour
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup water

Stir all ingredients in a small saucepan over medium heat until boiling. Let it boil for a few minutes to thicken. Remove from heat and set aside until needed.

Yummy!!!

Munchkin Monday: Banana Muffins

I love my kids, but I HATE feeding them. I am not creative when it comes to meals and snacks and we tend to get stuck in ruts where they eat the same 5 meals for weeks on end. While I have looked online (Pinterest) and there are amazing Mom's out there who put together amazing meals and take beautiful photo's of them, and while I can admire what they are doing, I need a more practical way for myself to plan meals. So I am making lists!! Yay me! One for breakfast, lunch, and snacks with recipes to go with. This way I can look at my lists before going shopping and buy accordingly and when I get home and can't think of anything to make I have a plan in place. Now my hope is to pass on my awesome lists to all of you out there but I want to test out some of the recipes first. Lets get started.

So first up is BREAKFAST! These muffins were so tasty that we made a batch two days in a row and my husband ate six for breakfast yesterday.

I adapted this recipe from thriftyfun.com you can find that link here.

This is my crazy cute helper for the day :)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. In large bowl combine the flour, baking soda, sugar, and baking powder. In a separate bowl mix the bananas, egg, salt, and coconut oil. I think that using a potato masher is the best way to combine the banana mixture. Also if you would prefer you can use 1/3 cup of butter in place of the coconut oil.

Stir banana mixture into dry ingredients until just moistened. Its fine if its just a little lumpy looking.

Fill muffin cups 2/3 full. It took about 2 heaping tablespoons to fill my cups. (And yes they are left over from Easter) Sprinkle the extra sugar over the muffins. You don't need the extra sugar but I liked the little extra crunch it gave. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes. Cool in pan for 10 minutes.

All that is left to do is enjoy. These banana muffins have a satisfying texture that is not to dense and not to light. A wonderful fast and easy breakfast. You could mix it up and add a little cinnamon or some chocolate chips and they would store wonderfully in the freezer.  My only warning is that one batch only makes 15 muffins so make a double batch. You are going to need it. 

Banana Muffins

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 3/4 cup sugar, plus a little extra for sprinkling on top
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 3 large ripe bananas, mashed
• 1 egg, slightly beaten
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. In large bowl combine the flour, baking soda, sugar, and baking powder. In a separate bowl mix the bananas, egg, salt, and coconut oil. Stir banana mixture into dry ingredients until just moistened. Fill muffin cups 2/3 full.

Sprinkle the extra sugar over the muffins. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes. Cool in pan for 10 minutes.

Foodie Friday: Great Grandma Clara's Spice Nut Waffles

Best waffles ever! They might take a little extra time but they are worth it.

I have one solid memory of my Great Grandma Clara, when I was about 6 years old. Sitting outside at a white metal table (the cute decorative ones that seat like four people) and looking at Clara, who I didn't know at all, sitting in her chair with tubes in her nose. That is it. But every time we eat her amazing waffles I send a little love up her way and thank her.

I haven't actually made this recipe before myself. I just haven't had to. It has been a staple at my Mom's house over the years, a go to for special occasion breakfasts. But just last Monday I made waffles out of a box and got to thinking. They were terrible. Really bad. Like fluffy cardboard. (Yes that is a thing.) I realized that I never made the waffles because my mom always said that they took a little extra time. So  I looked in my family cookbook and saw that the extra time she spoke of was whipping egg whites. Really Mom.... That's it? I will whip egg whites all day long as long as I don't have to eat cardboard waffles again. So here it is the extremely long and tedious process. (NOT!)

 Whip the egg whites. (Don't forget to save the yolks!)

 Mix together the dry ingredients.

 Add in the milk, egg yolks, and melted butter.

 Fold in the pecans and egg whites. (I used walnuts this time, any soft nut will work and be delicious.) For anyone who doesn't know, folding in the egg whites means mixing them as gently as possible so you lose as little of the air you whipped into the egg whites as possible. One technique is to drag your spatula through the middle of the bowl rotating it under the batter and then folding the batter over the top of the mixture. Continue until fully combined.

 I didn't put the nuts in till i cooked half the batter because my odd husband likes nuts but doesn't like nuts in things. (Weirdo) My waffles took about 3 1/2 min to cook but that will vary based on your waffle iron.

So delicious! I doubled my batch and cooked 24 waffle squares, so a single batch will do about 12.

Spice Nut Waffles

2 cups flour
3 T sugar
1 t salt
3 t baking powder
1 t nutmeg
1 1/2 t cinnamon
2 eggs, separated
1 3/4 cup milk
4 T melted butter
1/3 cup finely chopped pecans

Whip egg whites stiff. Set aside. Mix dry ingredients. Add milk, melted butter and egg yolks. Fold in egg whites and chopped nuts gently. Cook in a piping hot waffle iron. Devour.

End of story...

P.S. If it was unclear in the recipe the big T is tablespoons and the little t is teaspoons.

**UPDATE**
This is a slightly embarrassing update and a little funny too. My big sister, after reading the blog, text-ed me to tell me that the memory I have couldn't have happened because Great Grandma Clara died before I was born. Apparently I was thinking of Great Grandma Helen. Well I was 6 what can I tell you... Anyway I still love her for her amazing food and Grandma Helen too.

Foodie Friday: Chocolate Pancakes with Homemade Syrup

I am a total believer in breakfast and get sick if I end up skipping it. I get kind of tired of having a bowl of cereal every single morning so I enjoy switching things up every now and then. My kids really like these-especially my little guy which I was a little surprised about! The pancakes are not too sweet, but the syrup makes up for that :). The recipe doesn't normally call for chocolate chips, but I think the next time I make these I may put in some chocolate chips. Yum! See what your family thinks of these!

Chocolate Pancakes:

• 1 1/2 C flour
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 6 Tbsp sugar
• 6 Tbsp cocoa
• 1 1/4 C warmed milk
• 4 Tbsp butter or margaring, melted
• 2 eggs, beaten

Mix and sift together dry ingredients. Add milk, butter, and eggs and beat until smooth. Add extra milk if the batter is too thick. Cook as you do regular pancakes. Serve warm with syrup.

Syrup

• 2 C sugar
• 1 8oz can evaporated milk
• 1 Tbsp butter

Boil sugar and milk, stirring constantly until all the sugar is dissolved. Cook over high heat until the mixture starts to boil. Do not leave unattended as it comes to a boil quickly. Remove from heat and add butter. Let sit for 5 minutes. Stir and enjoy!

Foodie Friday- Breakfast Ham Cups

I don't know about you, but I get tired of having the same old same thing for breakfast. It is nice to switch things up once and a great while. While browsing pinterest I found this recipe for breakfast ham cups. The woman uses a mini muffin tin for her ham cups, but I wanted mine a little bit bigger so I used a regular muffin pan. These were easy to make and taste delicious! My kids scarfed them down and my husband was bummed that I didn't make more than what I did. Try them out and guarentee they will soon become one of your family's breakfast favorites! We will definately be making these again soon!!!

Breakfast Ham Cups

Ingredients:

• sliced deli ham
• sauteed onion and peppers diced (I put mine in the microwave for about 2 min and they came out perfect)
• Cheese (Cheddar or Colby/Monterey Jack. Whichever you like better)
• 1/2 egg per cup
• heavy whipping cream
• green onions
• non stick cooking spray
• salt and pepper
• Tablespoon butter

Sray and line your muffin tin with your ham and preset the oven to 350 degrees.

                                       

 Combine your butter, onions, and peppers. Place in the microwave and cook for 2-3 minutes. Place a little bit of the mixture in each ham cup.

 Sprinkle some cheese in each cup.

 Mix your eggs, some cream and salt and pepper in a bowl. Pour mixture in each ham cup. Top with a few green onions. Bake for 20-25  minutes. The edges of the ham should be nice and browned and crisp.

 YUM!!!



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Sweet Tooth Tuesday : Strawberry Coffee Cake

"Want some Cake for Breakfast?"

That's what I asked my kids one Sunday morning.  They were super excited at the prospects of eating a dessert-like Strawberry breakfast.

I don't know much about coffee cakes, but I liked this recipe and the adaptations that I made to it.

Strawberry Coffee Cake

~adapted from "The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook~

{Printable Recipe}

Ingredients

Filling:

·         1 lb of Strawberries-diced

·         ¼ Cup Sugar

·         Zest from a Lemon

Cake:

·         1 Cup All-Purpose Flour

·         ¼ Cup Whole Wheat Flour

·         ½ Cup Sugar

·         1 tsp Baking Powder

·         ¼ tsp Baking Soda

·         ¼ tsp Salt

·         8 Tbl Melted Butter

·         ½ Cup Milk

·         1 Egg

·         1 Tbl Lemon Emulsion

Crumb Topping:

·         ½ Cup All-Purpose Flour

·         ¼ Cup Sugar

·         2 Tbl Melted Butter

Directions:

1.       Preheat the oven to 350˚.  Grease a 9x9 baking pan.

2.       In a bowl, combine all the filling ingredients, letting the strawberries mascerate.

3.       In a mixing bowl, add all the dry ingredients.

4.       Mix in the wet ingredients.  Pour into the baking dish.

5.       Mix together the crumb topping.  Sprinkle half the mixture on to the cake mixture.

6.       Spread the strawberry filling over the crumb mixture.  Top with the remaining crumb topping.

7.       Bake for 1 hour, or until the top is golden brown.

8.       Enjoy!

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