World’s Easiest Cinnamon Rolls

I wasn’t planning to turn these into a post, as they were just a spur-of-the-moment Christmas morning treat.  But I snapped some pictures of them, and the pictures turned out pretty well and the cinnamon rolls are even better.  So I had to share.

Preston left Christmas morning to go see his family, and I had a little time to kill before I left for my family.  I decided that alone time on Christmas should NOT be spent exercising or cleaning my apartment, so I immediately pulled up my list of recipes to try – the special “I mean really soon” list of MUST-try recipes.

Minimalist Baker’s World’s Easiest Cinnamon Rolls was first up.  No need to look any farther!  Cinnamon rolls for Christmas breakfast it is.  As soon as Preston walked out the door, I started mixing up the dough.  While the dough rose, I got myself dressed and ready. 

I shaped cinnamon rolls, put them in the pan to rise some more, and decided I would much rather head over to my parents’ house than clean up the mess I’d made.  So off I went with rising dough.  I preheated the oven immediately when I got there and soon popped them in the oven.

They were just perfect.

Light, fluffy, so easy to make, and not too sweet. 

While they were baking, my parents and I opened a couple presents which included a bottle of whiskey for my dad.  So naturally we used the whiskey to make an icing for the cinnamon rolls (just powdered sugar + whiskey.) 

So good.

Click on over to Minimalist Baker to give their cinnamon rolls a try.  I’ve never made cinnamon rolls from scratch before, but I am willing to agree with their title of “world’s easiest.”