Aunt Joan's Cinnamon Rolls Recipe

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Aunt Joan's Cinnamon Rolls
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Ingredients:

  • 2 (1/4 oz) packages yeast
  • 1/2 cup warm water
  • 2 cups lukewarm milk, scalded and cooled
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 1/3 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 egg
  • 6 1/2-7 1/2 cups flour (added gradually)
  • 1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
  • 3/4 cup oleo or 3/4 cup butter

Directions:

  1. Dough: Mix first ingredients (Yeast through Egg) with a spoon. Add in Flour gradually and then mix with your hands until you can knead the dough.
  2. Warm a bowl with hot water, dry and grease the bowl. Let the dough rise in the warmed, greased and covered bowl at room temperature until doubled.
  3. Make Topping: Cook sugar and butter until it is combined (in a pan on the stove). Take off the heat, add Caro Syrup and stir. Pour 1/2 syrup mixture into each greased 9X13 Pan. NOTE: don't cook this too long or too hard - you'll get a hard candy topping - Joan cooked it for just a few minutes - You can optionally add nuts to the topping. You can make the topping ahead of time and pour into the prepared pans while the dough is rising.
  4. Divide dough in half once doubled. Perform the following on each dough: Roll dough out oblong to about 12 X 18 inches. Spread milk over the dough with your fingers (1/8 C or so?) (note - some recipes call for using butter instead of milk - the milk does work fine though - ) Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon over the dough. Can optionally add raisins. Roll up dough lengthwise. NOTE: First time I made these I used an unmeasured amount of cinnamon and sugar - sprinkled it on what I thought was liberally and it wasn't nearly enough. Researched cinnamon rolls on the internet and found 1C Sugar + 1 TBL cinnamon was a pretty common ingredient set in cinnamon rolls. I tried these amounts and the sugar melted out of the rolls when they cooked and left gaps in the rolls that I wasn't happy with. Next time will use between 1/2 - 3/4 C sugar and a slightly reduced amount of Cinnamon.
  5. Cut rolls about every 1 1/2 inches and place on top of syrup in pan. When you place the rolls, there will be big gaps between them - rolls will be 3 X 4 in the 9 X 12 pan. As they rolls rise the second time, these gaps will be filled in nicely. Let rise until ready (Second raise - maybe another 1/2 - 1 hour to hour depending on humidity levels?).
  6. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Important - Check the rolls about 20 minutes inches If the rolls on the edges start to brown and the middle looks not done - put tin foil over the rolls and cook a bit longer. Once all are done, run a spatula along the edge of the pan and then immediately turn out (with topping on top) onto a bread board, cookie sheet, foil or wax paper to cool completely (But not a cooling rack - you want to capture all of the topping!).
  7. Aunt Joan lets them cool completely and then wraps tightly in wrap (freezer paper / plastic combo) and puts most into the freezer now days as her kids are long ago grown and moved away. Believe me - even frozen and thawed these things ROCK. (of course, you could eat them right away ;).
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 2113.92 Kcal (8851 kJ)
Calories from fat 872.63 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 96.96g 149%
Cholesterol 40.92mg 14%
Sodium 7019.5mg 292%
Potassium 1049.42mg 22%
Total Carbs 279.6g 93%
Sugars 11.71g 47%
Dietary Fiber 29.53g 118%
Protein 36.17g 72%
Iron 17.4mg 96%
Calcium 950.8mg 95%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 389.91 Kcal (1632 kJ)
Calories from fat 160.96 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 17.88g 149%
Cholesterol 7.55mg 14%
Sodium 1294.75mg 292%
Potassium 193.57mg 22%
Total Carbs 51.57g 93%
Sugars 2.16g 47%
Dietary Fiber 5.45g 118%
Protein 6.67g 72%
Iron 3.2mg 96%
Calcium 175.4mg 95%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Weightwatchers Points

  • 49.6
    Points
  • 56
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • low cholesterol,
  • high fiber

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Total Fat

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