Cinnamon Rolls

So my time making cinnamon rolls was supposed to be a nice, relaxing, experience...like making the rolls last week.  Little did I know what a process it would be!  And maybe I was a little bit distracted, but I can't think of what was distracting me.  Let me explain...

I thought I would be all like a baking show and measure out the ingredients before hand and then just mix it together as called for in the recipe.  Somehow I only got the oil and sugar and salt measured, and then I had to focus on scalding my milk properly so it wouldn't burn.  So I started putting everything in my mixer and thought I had put everything in.  I even triple checked the recipe before I had it start rising!  I thought I was good, so I covered it and let it start rising.  I wanted to rest a little bit before I cleaned up, so then after 30 minutes of reading I went back to clean the kitchen.  And as I walked in, I saw the oil sitting out in the container that I had it measured out in!  I had totally missed putting it in!  So frustrated!!! So I had to throw out the dough (that had actually started to rise pretty well) and restart!  This time I made sure I had everything measured out before I started!  And I got all the ingredients in there this time.

So I was all excited to finally get to rolling it out after it had risen enough.  I rolled it out very nicely, I must say, and covered it with butter then started rolling it up.  As I finished rolling it up I realized something.  Can anybody notice what I missed???  The freakin' cinnamon sugar!!!! AHHH!!! I might add that the whole time I'm doing this Scott is watching football all nice and calm.  So when I started busting out not happy phrases at my dough he was very concerned.  I told him what happened and all he could do was just kind of chuckle at my predicament and say that he's sure I could fix it and that I should just laugh about it!  At this point I was very perturbed with my cinnamon roll making process.  But, determined to have my cinnamon rolls, I started unrolling the dough very carefully and eventually got it back to the point where I could put the cinnamon sugar on them.

In the end, I'm very pleased to say that I salvaged the cinnamon rolls and am now anxiously awaiting the first batch out of the oven.  I'll let you know how they turn out, but I just had to share my experience.  Now I can say that it actually was kind of funny that I forgot the cinnamon sugar and I can kind of laugh at it.  I also learned that you can always try to fix a problem rather than just getting upset and giving up.  So the quote for this post comes from Thomas Edison.  He said "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.  The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."  So as we go forward into this next week...try and try again friends!