Monday, April 9, 2012

Cinnamon Twists

What to do on a rainy Saturday morning, Sarah's softball game was cancelled, my house was clean and I had nothing to do, well I ALWAYS have something to do, but doing more laundry didn't sound half as fun as making homemade cinnamon twists, I could smell them baking even before I got the ingredients out of the cupboard.  My husband wasn't moving too fast, see we had gone out the night before to several bars with a friend of ours that was here from out of town and Tom had one Jameson shot with a pickle juice back too many(he said he had to do the shot - Peer Pressure) and he wasn't feeling too well, he couldn't wait to smell fresh baked cinnamon twists as he was laying on the couch "recuperating".

I pulled out Grandma's cookbook (this is a recipe that I have been wanting to try out and I think that the gloomy, rainy day was perfect), pulled out all of the ingredients and got to work.  I was pleasantly surprised that it was a pretty simple recipe.


Cinnamon Twists:
Bring to boiling in large saucepan, 1 cup buttermilk.
Remove from heat and stir in:
2TBSP shortening
3TBSP sugar
1/8 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt(I generally use a little less salt)
Cool to lukewarm & add:
1 egg
1 pkg yeast
Mix in with a spoon:
3 C flour
Knead dough, roll into a rectangle 6 x 24".  Spread entire surface with melted butter.  Sprinkle half of the dough (long way) with:
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
Bring unsugared half over to make rectangle 3x24". Cut dough into strips 1 inch wide. Twist in opposite direction.  Place on greased baking sheet about 2 inches apart.  Let rise in warm place until light.  Bake at 375.  Spread baked sticks with icing made with 3/4 cup powdered sugar and 1 TBSP milk.
Kneading the dough...
Roll out the dough, spread with melted butter and spread half with the cinnamon/sugar mixture, fold over and slice...

Twist ...


For some reason, Grandma did not say how long to bake the twists, I started with 15 minutes, then added about 5 more minutes when they looked nice and golden brown.


Drizzle a little glaze of powdered sugar and milk and yes, they tasted as good as they looked.

The whole time these were in the oven, Tom kept asking if they were done, as soon as they came out, I put his on a plate and served it to him, as he laid on the couch (just like the good, dutiful wife that I am, hehehe). I called my mom and told her to come over and try my little masterpieces, I think she was over in about 5 minutes.  I love doing R&D!