I have previously acknowledged my undying love of doughnuts. I'm here to tell you now, that next to doughnuts, I am obsessed with cinnamon buns, or cinnamon rolls or honey buns. I blame my mother; when I was very small and we lived in Indiana, on special occasions, she would buy frozen Morton's Honey Buns. Now, you should know my mom was and is a great make-it-from-scratch cook. So if she was feeding us frozen store-bought honey buns, they were pretty darn good. As I said they, were frozen, and came two to a package. You heated them up in the oven, and served them warm and slightly drippy from the glaze. They were a sweet yeast dough, with lots of cinnamon, and a basic glaze. Later I started to sample cinnamon rolls, etc. at various bakeries, and no, Cinnabon does not count; they are the Hostess Doughnuts of cinnamon rolls. Polly's Pastries, a California chain makes magnificent Cinnamon Rolls, but alas, they are miles and miles away from me. I long for "Cinnamon rolls as big as your head," like those baked by the eponymous heroine of Robin McKinley's Sunshine. Alas, McKinley did not see fit to include a recipe; consequently, I have turned to Ree Drummond, of the fabulous Pioneer Woman Website, and author of the cookbook The Pioneer Woman Cooks. Ree Drummond has a step-by-step recipe for Cinnamon Rolls 101.
You can watch Ree Drummond make her Cinnamon Rolls her, in a video of her appearance on the Fox network.
Image credit: © Ree Drummond. Used with permission.