Food for Friday

Well, Dusty had the IT cell phone this week, so that means he has to bring something for breakfast on Friday.  Being who I am, I have to make something that will wow people.  Why I can't just let him buy Walmart donuts, I wish I knew.  I guess I feel validated when I make something great.

I wish these recipes would've gone better, but the end result was pretty good, I think.

First cinnamon bread.  I used the Pioneer Woman's recipe, and I think we measure flour differently.  I had to add over 3/4 of a cup more flour for the bread to turn out dough-ish at all, and not batter.  The first loaf I didn't, and it is not cinnamon bread.  It is heavy cinnamon glop with a little crust on the outside. The stuff in the bowl next to the bread is a spread that PW uses for her cinnamon toast, and I thought the guys would like to spread it on and maybe put it in the toaster oven at work.  Here's a picture of the good loaf.

I also made Pioneer Woman's caramel apple sticky buns, but I didn't add apples, and I gave Dusty chopped pecans for people to add, if they wanted to.  They turned out a little too caramelly for me, but they're still good.  My dad would LOVE them.  Here are the ones that were left at home.  The other ones were almost left in the middle of the road.  Dusty took off down the street at the same time as our next door neighbor boy, who was going to school.  All of the sudden Caleb stopped in the road and got out and started walking back to Dusty.  He pulled the rolls off the top of Dusty's car and handed them to him.  Caleb saved the day. :)

There would've been twice as many sticky buns, but somehow half of the dough got deposited straight to the bottom of our trash can.  There wasn't quite enough flour in these either.  I added another 1/3 c. of flour to the half of the dough that was left.  Then the dough was much more agreeable, and so was I.

Next time I will be certain to add more flour to the dough if it resembles batter.  Then all frustration will be eliminated.

Next project: either a big cookie or more cookie dough cupcakes.  Depends on how ambitious I feel.  It's to celebrate Tricia being here. :)