Cinnamon Roll Donuts

My kids have some friends that come over almost every weekend and stay the night.  They are sweet kids and we love having them around.  When all the kids wake up, the first thing one of the girls asks is "what are you going to make us for breakfast?" 

The other day they were over and my response to her question was "how abotu pancakes?"  She looked at me like I just sprouted a third eye.  Her response?  She said "but I can eat pancakes at home."  Ha!  I took that as a compliment and decided to make something delicious and "not something they could get at home" for breakfast.  We decided on these Cinnamon Roll Donuts.

 

Cinnamon Roll Donuts

Source: Buns In My Oven

For the donuts:

* 1 cup flour

* 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons white sugar

* 1 teaspoon baking powder

* 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg

* 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

* 1/2 teaspoon salt

* 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons tablespoons buttermilk (or regular milk with a teaspoon of white vinegar added)

* 1 egg, beaten

* 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

* 1 1/2 teaspoons vegetable oil

For the cinnamon topping:

* 2 tablespoons butter

* 2 teaspoons cinnamon

* 5 tablespoons brown sugar

* 1 teaspoon milk

* 1 teaspoon cornstarch

* 1 teaspoon vanilla

For the glaze:

* 1/4 cup powdered sugar

* 1 tablespoon plus 2 teaspoons heavy cream or milk

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.

To make the cinnamon topping:

Melt the butter in a small saucepan. Stir in the cinnamon, brown sugar, milk, and cornstarch. Heat just until it begins to boil. Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla.

Pour the cinnamon topping evenly into each well of your well greased donut pan.

 

To make the donuts:

In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, nutmeg, cinnamon, and salt.

In a small bowl, stir together the butter milk, egg, and oil.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir with a wooden spoon until fully incorporated.

Drop spoonfuls of the batter into the donut pan over the cinnamon topping and bake for 10 minutes or until lightly browned and cooked through.

 

Remove from the oven and cool in the pan for two minutes before transferring to a wire rack. Note - when I did this, I lost most of the cinnamon glaze (because it stayed in the pan.)  I think I would cool the donuts for about 15 minutes, at least, before taking them out of the pan. 

 

For the second batch, I spread some of the glaze on top of the cooled donuts to add more (since so much fell off.)  It worked great!

To make the glaze:

Whisk together the powdered sugar and cream until smooth. Spoon into a baggie and cut off a small corner of the bag. Pipe the glaze onto the donuts.  This works best if the donuts are cool because then it' doesn't drip off =o)

 

They were wonderful and the kids loved them.  Soft, cinnamon-y and delicious!

 

Enjoy!

 

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Cinnabunnies - Bunny Shaped Cinnamon Rolls

 

This idea is all over Pinterest and I just loved it. But what I don't love? When I click on a picture on Pinterest and it takes me no where! It just goes to the picture. I want the website and a tutorial on how to make said awesome idea. Ugh! So I had to click on a TON of pictures on Pinterest before I finally found the source of this.  Thank you to the one person who actually pinned the website and not just the picture!

So, what are they?  Cinnabunnies!  Cinnamon Roll Bunnies!  Thanks to Betty Crocker for this "pinspiration"!  =o)

What you will need:

* packaged cinnamon rolls from a tube.  I bought the big ones.  I would recommend buying the regular sized ones that have 8 in a can.  That will make 4 Cinnabunnies.

* raisins or M&Ms for the eyes

* almond slivers for the teeth

Keep one cinnamon roll intact and place it on a silpat or cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.

Unroll one of the cinnamon rolls and make ears.  Once you shaped the ears, make sure you pinch them to the head.

I didn't have any raisins for the eyes so I used M&Ms.  (No complaining from this house.)  But I didn't have anything for the teeth.  Crud.  Slivered almonds are not something I keep around my house.

 

 

Bake in a 350 degree oven for about 20 minutes. 

Once they are cooled, frost the ears and give them a little sprinkling of sugar.

 

 

Mine aren't nearly as cute as the ones on the Betty Crocker website.  I'm going to blame it on the fact that I used Grands Cinnamon Rolls.  Yep.  That's what I'm sticking too =o)  But the kids didn't care.  They loved them!

There you go.  The perfect Easter treat!

 

Looking for other fun Easter treats to make?  How about:

 

Carrot Patch Cookies

 

 

Easter Egg Hunt Cookies

 

 

Brownies Baked in an Egg Shell

 

 

These Dye-ving Dudes are so much fun to make with the kids!

 

 

 

 

 

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Cinnamon Bun Scones

I have to be honest with you, I don't think I've ever had a scone. They've never really appealed to me.  I'm not sure why.  Maybe it's because everyone says they are great with coffee.  I don't drink coffee.  Maybe it's because they don't seem sweet enough, more like a buscuit.  And let's just be honest, I have a huge sweet tooth!  But then I saw this recipe and actually took a look at it.  Cinnamon.  Sugar.  Icing.  Yep, I'm in.

I had a meeting with some of the other District Counselors and the Assistant Superintendant to go over our Flight Team Protocol.  A Flight Team is the team that responds to major tragedies that happen in the community (when they involve the school.)  It's something that no one really thinks about until something happens and then it's invaluable.  Last summer a man in my community decided to kill his two children and his wife and then take his own life.  Something this horrific shakes a community (any community, especially a small one like mine) and the response to this is essential.  So, when having to deal with topics such as this, I bake treats.

These Cinnamon Bun Scones were delicious.  Agiain, I have to say, I've never tasted a scone so I can't compare these to anything, but I guess I am honest when I say "these are the best scones I've ever had!"  =o)  They really were good.  Just the right amount of sweet without being as sweet as a cinnamon roll.  (They seemed healthier.  Right???)

Cinnamon Bun Scones

Source: Recipe Girl

* 2 cup AP flour

* 1 cup oatmeal, quick or old-fashioned, uncooked

* 1/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp. sugar, divided

* 1 Tbsp. baking powder

* 1/4 tsp. salt

* 8 Tbsp. (1 stick) chilled butter, cut into pieces

* 3/4 cup 2% milk

* 1 large egg

* 1 tsp. vanilla

* 1 cup Hershey's Cinnamon Chips

* 2 tsp. ground cinnamon

Glaze

* 3/4 cup powdered sugar

* 1/4 tsp. vanilla

* 3 to 4 tsp. milk

Preheat oven to 425°F. Spray 12x 18-inch pan with nonstick spray (or line with parchment paper).

In a large bowl, combine flour, oatmeal, 1/4 cup sugar, baking powder and salt; mix well. Cut in butter with pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.  Add Cinnamon CHips.

In a small bowl, combine milk, egg and vanilla; blend well. Add to dry ingredients all at once; stir with fork or rubber spatula just until dry ingredients are moistened.

In another small bowl, combine remaining 2 Tbsp. sugar with the cinnamon; mix well. Sprinkle evenly over dough in bowl; gently stir batter to swirl in cinnamon mixture. (Do not blend completely).  If you don't have these Hershey's Cinnamon Chips in your area, you can learn how to make them here.

Drop dough by 1/4 cupfuls 2 inches apart on cookie sheet. I used my large cookie scoop and it worked great.   

Bake 11 to 13 minutes or until golden brown. Remove to cooling rack.

 

To make glaze: 

In small bowl, combine powdered sugar, vanilla and enough milk for desired consistency; mix until smooth.  I had about a half of a tub of cream cheese frosting in my fridge so I added a big plop of that to the glaze and stirred it all up.  It was amazing!

 Drizzle over tops of warm scones. Serve warm.

I don't know what scones are supposed to taste like but I'm totally making these again!

Enjoy!

We love cinnamon chip anything.  Here are some more delicious cinnamon chip recipes to try.

Cinnamon Chip Bread

Cinnamon Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake Bars

Cinnamon Chip Oatmeal Cookies

 

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Honey Bun Cake

My kids love Honey Buns. No wait... let me say that again... my kids LOVE Honey Buns. They do!  Which makes me laugh because they cost like $2 and 6 come in a pack.  How cheap is that?!  But we don't buy them that often (which they remind me of constantly.)  They taste a little "processed" for me.

When I was looking at some of my favorite blogs the other day I clicked on Raising 4 Princesses and saw this amazing Honey Bun Cake.  Holy heck!  Honey Bun Cake!  Maria said that she has been making this for years and her family loves it.  I was so excited to make it!  It looked heavenly!

So this morning I had a houseful of kids (both my kids had friends sleep over) so I thought this was the perfect time to make it.  Oh sure, it's called "cake" but Maria said it was a breakfast cake so that's what I went with.  =o)  Thanks, Maria!  Any reason to eat deliciousness in the morning and I'm there!

It was super easy to make and man, oh, man!  Amazing!!!

Honey Bun Cake

Source: Raising 4 Princesses

* 1 box of yellow cake mix

* 4 eggs

* 1 cup sour cream

* 3/4 cup vegetable oil

* 3/4 cup brown sugar

* 2 tsp. cinnamon

Glaze

* 2 cups powdered sugar

* 1 tsp. vanilla

* 6 Tbsp. milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Reserve 1/2 cup of the cake mix and set aside.

In a medium bowl, mix cake mix, eggs, sour cream and vegetable oil.  Don't use a mixer because you want the cake dense.  Stir well.

Pour a little less that half of the batter into a sprayed 9x13 pan.

In a small bowl, combine the reserved 1/2 cup cake mix, brown sugar and cinnamon and stir well.   Spread evenly over the batter in the pan.

Spread remaining batter over cinnamon layer.  You can gently swirl with a knife if you want.  I did because that's what Maria did and I learned my lesson not following directions when I made my S'more Cookie Tarts.  =o)

Bake for 30 - 45 minutes depending on pan size and oven.  It's done when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

While it's baking, make the glaze.  Pour over the cake when it comes out of the oven.

Is your mouth watering yet?

It was so incredibly good!  A new family favorite!  (With the neighbor kids too!)

 

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Cinnamon Roll Waffles

Sometimes I wonder if I make these delicious breakfast treats for my kids or for me. For argument sake... we're going to say I make these for my kids.   Yah, that's what I do.

And it's no secret that we love pancakes.  The cinnamon roll pancakes we made were amazing.  My kids request them all the time!  And it's always fun to make colorful pancakes.   My kids also love it when I make shapes out of pancakes.   And our cake batter pancakes?  Oh man!  So how can I top all of that???

Cinnamon Roll Waffles!  So easy and so delicious!

I used a waffle/pancake mix and made some waffles.  You can make homemade waffles if you so choose.  But really?  At 6am sometimes I just don't want to!

In a bowl mix up

* 1/2 cup brown sugar

* 1 tsp. cinnamon

* 3 Tbls. melted butter

If you need to thin it, use some milk.

In another bowl mix

* 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

* 1/2 tsp. butter, melted

* 1/2 tsp. vanilla

* 1-3 tsp. milk

Drizzle cinnamon "sauce" and icing over waffles.

Enjoy!

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Cinnamon Roll Cookies

It's no secret that my kids and I have a thing for cinnamon rolls. We made homemade cinnamon rolls, cinnamon roll bites with maple frosting and cinnamon roll pancakes (all super yum!) So when I saw these cinnamon roll cookies over on Everyday Sisters I was so excited. They looked delicious and super easy to make. I like that combination! =o)

Ingredients:

* 2 refrigerated, roll out pie crusts (you can make your own pie crust if you would like.  But I don't make pie crust, so I bought some)

* 1 cup brown sugar

* 1 - 1 1/2 Tbsp. cinnamon (depending on your taste)

Simple right?!?!

Roll out one pie crust.  Sprinkle with half of the cinnamon and brown sugar mixture and roll up.

 
Cut into 1/2 inch slices and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

Bake in a 400 degree oven for 10 - 12 minutes (until lightly browned and delicious looking!)

Repeat with the other pie crust.

Cool on cooling racks and try not to eat all of them while they are still warm.  Seriously.  This will be difficult!  They are awesome!!!

If you want to frost them (but you don't have to.  They are delicious without it.)  But even better with it =o)

* 1 cup powdered sugar

* milk

Add milk to powdered sugar, a little at a time.  Make sure you don't add too much all at once or it will be lumpy and too thin.

Frost and enjoy!!!

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