My best cinnamon roll recipe:
Ingredients:
1 lb. raw potatoes (aprox 3 med potatoes) Cooked and mashed. ( you can use instant potatoes if you wish)
-Reserve 1/2 cup of liquid from boiling potatoes
-Mix: 1 1/2 C warm milk
1/2 C oil
1/2 C sugar
2 eggs
1 TBS salt
Whisk 2 tbs. of yeast into the cooled pa half cup of the cooled potato water and and let sit until the yeast forms a foam on top. Pour this into the milk mixture, along with the eggs and mashed potatoes.
Add 6.5 cups of AP flour flour to the warm milk mixture. Knead in another cup of flour to form a soft, but elastic dough. Add more flour if required.
Let raise till double then roll into a thin rectangle. Spread generously with softened butter. Sprinkle brown and white sugar and cinnamon to cover. Distribute pecans, or walnuts, and raisins over the sugar. Roll the dough to form a long tube, and slice into 1/4 inch pinwheels. Place onto a parchment lined cookie sheet, with 1-inch high sides. Make a syrup of brown sugar, butter, and vanilla over medium heat. Pour this over the top of the cinnamon rolls to make sticky buns (amazing flavor). Let rise until the buns have doubled. Bake in a 350' F, oven for 45 to 59 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven, slide the parchment paper, with the buns on top, out of the pan and onto a cooling rack. Let cool and serve. Turn off oven.
Enjoy.
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