Cooking - Cinnamon Rolls

Recipe:  Cinnamon Rolls with Icing

From:  The Pioneer Woman (cinnamon rolls); Betty Crocker (icing)

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Photo credit:  Lockstep

Notes:  

This recipe - 

• The recipe makes A LOT of cinnamon rolls.
• I didn't prepare the maple frosting from The Pioneer Woman's recipe because Lockstep requested "regular icing."  Plus, neither of us is real big on maple-flavored stuff anyways. 
  
• The dough is really sticky. 
• You need a lot of extra flour and extra space to roll out the dough. 

This time - 

• I prepared half of the recipe and still had 2 pans of cinnamon rolls.  
  
• This was my first time working with live yeast.  (I've been hesitant to try anything that requires yeast or a lot of kneading.)   Now I know that it's really not hard to make things with yeast!  
  
• The cinnamon rolls turned out delicious - Lockstep and I have been eating cinnamon rolls for days!
  
• For the icing:  powdered sugar, skim milk, vanilla.  Whisk together (and add more powdered sugar or milk) until get the consistency desired. 

Next time -

•  I'll only make 1/4 of the recipe (so only 1 pan of cinnamon rolls).
  
• Keep practicing with the cinnamon rolls - rolling/slicing the dough and neatness with come with practice.  Practice makes perfect, right?!