Tasty Traditions

This past weekend, we were able to listen to our Church’s Semi-Annual General Conference. For two days, we get to be spiritually fed and uplifted as we hear from our wonderful leaders.

These weekends were some of my favorite while I was in college. I was usually invited to watch the meetings with friends and their families. I was able to share some of their “Conference Traditions” and be a part of a family when I was far away from my own. Aside from sporadic note taking, accidental naps, and conference bingo, the top tradition was always partaking in a delicious breakfast of some sort!

Now that I have my own little family, consisting of me and Matthew for now, I wanted to start a little tradition myself. I have fond memories of making cinnamon rolls with my grandma, and not so fond memories of the disasters as I tried to replicate them (usually flat, hard, salty, nasty bread!) But they are a special, yummy treat that I have determined to be our own Conference breakfast.

I have always attempted to replicate Grandma’s bread recipe, but its never quite as good. So I decided to look up a few refrigerator roll recipes (so that I could let the dough rest overnight, and sleep in a bit) and combined a few to make my own.  After letting the dough rest overnight, I rolled it out to about 1/4 inch thick, and generously buttered the top, all the way to the edges. I wanted to make these rolls a bit more rich with cinnamon than normal, so I used 5 tablespoons of sugar  and 2 tablespoons of cinnamon to cover the buttered dough.  After rolling the dough, I used waxed dental floss (unused, of course!) to cut the dough to about 1 1/2 inch rolls. The dental floss doesn’t press as firmly as a knife and makes a cleaner cut. 

I let the rolls rest for about an hour, and baked them for 20 minutes or so.  I let them cool a bit and then topped them with a buttery powdered sugar glaze. They were soooo good! I just wish everyone could have come and had some! But instead, I stuffed my face, and added a few extra rolls to my sides!

Here is some cinnamony delight that won’t add any extra rolls to your tummies…lucky!