Ahh its been awhile but here I am just in time for some christmas time treats. Jumers Cinnamon rolls as a kid were basically my holy grail of deserts. I seriously would stuff myself full of these things. Being that my Dad worked at a Jumers I was naturally there quite a lot. On weekends we would head to bloomington (my sister and I) and spend the weekend with my dad. What was cool is we would stay in the hotel everyonce in awhile. Now as a kid that was always a fun time. Friday night we would eat in the restaurant which like the hotel was awesome. Every dinner they would serve these rolls and I would just eat and eat. Sat. morning we would wake up and get breakfast and just like before we would grab these cinnamon rolls. They were just so good. Well its many years later and finally I have tried my best to replicate what I remember as a kid. I do believe I have gotten very close and will prolly modify it here in the future but for now here it is.
Ingredients:
1 Package Dry Active Yeast
1/4 c Warm to Hot Water
1/2 c Cool Water
1/2 Stick Butter
1 c Sugar
1/3 c Sugar
3 c Bisquick Mix
2-3 Tbsp Cinnamon
Preheat Oven 350º
Alrighty to start you want to take your yeast pack and dump it in a cup with the 1/4 c warm water and give a quick stir. You will let this sit to the side while preparing everything else. Now go ahead and make your cinnamon sugar mixture. Combine the 1 c sugar and cinnamon in a mixing bowl. Make sure to mix thoroughly. Once you get this mixed you can set aside for later. Now go ahead and melt your butter. For this I just cut into chunks and put in my little bowl and microwave. This as well can be set aside.
Now in a seperate bowl you will want to combine your 1/3c Sugar, salt and Bisquick Mix (Now as you guys know I usually make everything from scratch but I couldn’t find a consistent couple of recipes for Bisquick so I’m just going store bought on this one.) Now take your yeast mixture and pour into the mix as well as the remaining 1/2 cup water you have set aside. Mix thoroughly. You will want it to be the consistency of biscuits. Not to smooth but still kinda forming together if you catch my drift. On a floured surface place the contents of the bowl on it. Knead together a couple times (make sure your hands have some flour on them as well.) Now some recipes will call for allowing the yeast to rise at this point. Now I tried this and it created to me a to airy of a roll. The rolls I remembered were dense and heavy. So from here on out you need to work fast as to not allow the dough to rise to much.
Now take your dough and cut it into 4 equal pieces. I rolled the dough into one big ball and then cut into pieces from there. Now as said before you must work pretty quickly at this point. The longer the dough sits the more it rises. So read through this and find your system and go with it. Take one piece of dough and roll it out into a lik 6×12 rectangle. Now I usually just use my hands for this as I can do it pretty quickly but do whatever works best for you. You really just want an even rectangle with a thin piece of dough. (prolly 1/4″). Once you get it spread out there take your butter and brush on a layer of melted butter. Once you have done that sprinkle on a generous layer of Cinnamon Sugar and then spread that evenly on top. Now tightly roll the dough into a pinwheel into a log and place on a greesed cookie sheet. Repeat this for the rest of the pieces of dough. Keep about 1 Tbsp of Cinnamon Sugar for just a bit later.
Place each log on the cookie sheet like above. Placing them right next to eachother. With a knife you want to cut into the dough. Now you don’t want to cut all the way down to the cookie sheet but almost all the way. This is to make them kinda like a breakaway type thing when finished. So cut like 1″ sections and then when all are cut you want to separate the pieces just a tad so that the heat can get into the cuts. So from looking at the picture you want to stretch them slightly from the center to the left and right. Keep the 4 logs together though. Now once you have this done take your brush and apply a thin layer of butter on top of the four logs. Sprinkle on the remaining cinnamon sugar and then place in the oven. You will want to cook for around 20 mins. Depending on your oven it might be less or more just pay attention to the tops and you will see a brown melting of the cinnamon sugar. As well the top of the dough will start to harden. When done take them out of the oven and let them cool and then enjoy. Its a beautiful thing.