Curious about the name - it will become apparent shortly!
These Cinnamon Buns require no baking knowledge or skill what so ever! The only caution, keep the recipe handy if you serve them to anyone outside your home - guaranteed you'll be asked for it!
REMEMBER! Always check the ingredients you use to ensure it will be safe.
24 Frozen Dough Balls (These are available in the freezer section of your grocer, with the frozen pie crusts, filo dough, etc. They are about the size of golf balls and may be called Frozen Dinner Rolls.)
1 Cup Brown Sugar
1/4 Cup Vanilla Instant Pudding Powder (do NOT prepare the pudding - you use just the powder)
1-2 Tablespoons Cinnamon
1/2 Cup Raisins (optional - I prefer without)
1/2 Cup Melted Butter (Go for the gusto, don't use margarine!!!)
Just before going to bed the day before you want to enjoy these little pearls of joy, do the following.
Grease a bundt pan. If you don't have one, two loaf pans will do, but the effect won't be quite the same. Place the frozen dough balls in the pan - spacing as evenly as you can. Sprinkle the remaining ingredients in order onto the frozen balls. DO NOT STIR! Cover with a damp tea towel (not one you're very fond of as it will get stained with the cinnamon). Let stand overnight as you go to the "Land of Nod". Have a restful sleep.
In the morning when you wake up, the buns will have risen to the top of the pan. Preheat the oven to 350. Make coffee. Bake the buns for 25 minutes. Read the paper or crawl back into bed. Remove the buns from the oven and let stand for 5 minutes. Invert (tip over) onto serving platter. If you don't let them stand 5 minutes, the butter goo will be runny. If you let it stand longer, it will all stick to the pan. 5 minutes seems to be the happy medium.
Wait a few more minutes before letting the scavengers in. Just pull off the buns and keep plenty of napkins near by. Enjoy. These have become another Christmas tradition in our home. As well as Easter, Thanksgiving, birthday, etc, etc. I also take them into the office for a special treat for my co-workers. Note: This recipe is also egg-free if your buns do not have egg!
mharasym,
I can't wait to make these. I buy cinnamon buns in the mall and they are amazing. I always looked out for recipes but never could find one. I will make them and tell you how they turned out. I do have a bunt pan!
Just a question, the cinnamon buns in the mall I go to have a white icing over them and its great. Do you do that? Or does the vanilla instant pudding powder make it like that?
If not, does anyone out there know what I'm talking about because you can actually buy extra icing for the cinnamon buns when you buy them. Its kind of like a white thin sweet icing that melts over the buns...its really yummy.
Well, you would think since our countries are soooo close we would have most of the same products in our grocery stores, NOT. I couldn't find Frozen dinner rolls or anything like that except for the Pillsbury Flaky Rolls that are not frozen, I did like the directions said, and hoped we wouldn't succumb to food poisoning by leaving it on the counter overnight (I'm a stickler for refrigerating food right away) Anyway, they turned out ok, the frozen golf size balls for dinner rolls sound better though so if anyone in Ontario, Canada reads this and knows where to get these, please let me know [img]http://uumor.pair.com/nutalle2/peanutallergy/smile.gif[/img]
[This message has been edited by smack (edited December 16, 2001).]
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