Roll with it: Cinnamon Rolls in Review

There is a sad moment when you realize that you can’t do something, and I can’t spell. A well proven point seeing as how I have talked about the cinnamon rolls from brunch a million times, and every single time I spell cinnamon, I use an e instead of an a. Thank heavens this doesn’t actually reflect on my cooking and baking. But moving on from there. So about a month ago Deb from SmittenKitchen went to meet Ree from The Pioneer Woman, and I’m pretty sure I called my mom and in an extremely long sentence with no pausing for air said: “Oh my gosh did you see that Deb is on the ranch and she is cooking and made bagels and the most awesomest looking cinnamon rolls ever?” It was at this point my dear mother asked what ranch. And whoa did I give a giant gasp followed by a “What RANCH?? Ummm, The Pioneer Woman ranch.” My message rang loud and clear (maybe not that clear) cause our conversation ended with a “oh that’s where she is…by the way did I tell you…”

Well thank you to what may be the best pairing, that lead to the best brunch food ever. Thus I give you, well…it doesn’t really have a name so we’ll just say it’s a Smitten Cinnamon Roll.

Pretty much it was amazing, and it was the first real adventure for the new camera. But that aside. I had seen the Pioneer Woman’s cinnamon roll recipe and then Smitten Kitchen went and made it even more fattening and called is Ranch Rugelach. With my well known love of all things Jewish, there was nothing holding me back; I take that back, the only thing holding me back was deciding to make the orginal or the jewish version. Adding my indecisiveness to this mix, I decided to make both. No one can ever say I’m not ambitious in my kitchen.

And thus the process began: milk was scalded, a massive bag of flour was almost gone, dough was rolled, I was covered in flour, the dough was covered in goodness (i.e. butter, jam, sugar and pecans).

Then the rolling and cutting process began, this is also when the camera was placed on the opposite side of the kitchen (a good idea if you can see how much flous is on my apron now). So in the first shot…we bring the Ranch Rugelach.