Whatcha Making Wednesdays.... A holiday tradition.... Clone of a Cinnabon

Welcome back to Whatcha Making Wednesdays... unfortunately last week I had some technical difficulties (no internet)...but yay! we are back... Christmas Morning I make Cinnamon buns... (actually I prep them the night before and bake them Christmas morning)... my pictures didn't do the ooey gooeyness justice....so I am posting pictures of some of our other holiday festivities...



Our Elf delivered some holiday jammies...

Our elf snuck one of our Christmas cookies....

Ryleigh and Braeden in their special Jammies Christmas Morning...

Ingredients

• 1 cup warm milk (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
• 2 eggs, room temperature
• 1/3 cup margarine, melted
• 4 1/2 cups bread flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 2 1/2 teaspoons bread machine yeast
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• 1 cup brown sugar, packed
• 2 1/2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
• 1/3 cup butter, softened
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• 1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon salt

Directions

1. Place ingredients in the pan of the bread machine in the order recommended by the manufacturer. Select dough cycle; press Start.
2. After the dough has doubled in size turn it out onto a lightly floured surface, cover and let rest for 10 minutes. In a small bowl, combine brown sugar and cinnamon.
3. Roll dough into a 16x21 inch rectangle. Spread dough with 1/3 cup butter and sprinkle evenly with sugar/cinnamon mixture. Roll up dough and cut into 12 rolls. Place rolls in a lightly greased 9x13 inch baking pan. Cover and let rise until nearly doubled, about 30 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
4. Bake rolls in preheated oven until golden brown, about 15 minutes. While rolls are baking, beat together cream cheese, 1/4 cup butter, confectioners' sugar, vanilla extract and salt. Spread frosting on warm rolls before serving.

*recipe was found on allrecipes.com*

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Whatcha Making Wednesdays..... Mini Pumpkin Bread

Welcome to Whatcha Making Wednesday!!! This is my first attempt at a weekly meme...so hopefully this works... Anyway... we have been studying fall (i.e. apples, leaves and pumpkins)... so my K4 class made Mini Pumpkin Bread Loaves.... so cute... and tasty!

Ryleigh stirring the pumpkin, spices and sugar....Adding in the egg and oil....

Adding in the Flour... I color coded all the bowls for easier group instruction...and also to eliminate fighting over certain colors...The finished bread...next to my "regular" sized loaf of bread for size comparison ...

Ryleigh getting ready to cut a slice of her bread....the girls loved being able to use their "little" knifes to cut their "little" breads...

Ingredients

• 3 cups canned pumpkin puree
• 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
• 4 cups white sugar
• 6 eggs
• 4 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 2 teaspoons Pumpkin Pie Spice

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour three 9x5 inch loaf pans.
2. In a large bowl, mix together the pumpkin, oil, sugar, and eggs. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, pumpkin pie spice; stir into the pumpkin mixture until well blended. Divide the batter evenly between the prepared pans.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 45 minutes to 1 hour. The top of the loaf should spring back

* When having the girls make this, I divided the recipe in 1/3... and then divided 1/3 by 3.... for the mini pans... and then baked for 25 min *

** I found this recipe on Allrecipes.com..... and then altered it slightly**

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