"...Slap Yo Momma!"

Have you ever heard the saying, "...so good, it'll make you slap your momma?" I never really understood why you would slap your momma because of good tastin' food, but if ever there was a food good enough to slap yo momma, I made it today! I felt a little ambitious as I woke up Saturday morning and pondered what to make for breakfast. With a house full of boys, Saturday morning breakfast is a big deal. I decided I was finally going to try Paula Deen's recipe for homemade cinnamon rolls. What I didn't realize until after I got started, was how long it would take! From start to finish, it is about three hours! Don't get me wrong, they're worth every minute of that time. However, I didn't get started until 9am! SOOOOO, while the first ball of dough was rising, the family went to McDonald's for breakfast! :) Now, 1:30pm, I just pulled the finished product out of the oven and iced them to perfection. Here are a few pictures of the process, the finished product, and of course a link to the recipe. I think it would be a great recipe for the holidays, but make ahead of time and freeze the rolls after they rise, before you would put them in the oven. Then, the morning of, you could just throw them in the oven for about an hour. Save two hours of work that morning!
This is what the dough ball looked like before the first rising:









A picture of the glaze, which still needed a few more teaspoons of hot water.






And...***drum-roll please***...the final Masterpiece!









P.S. Do you like my forty-year-old, avacado green, drop-in stove? I must say, it still works like new (except for a few settings on the stove top). If it ain't broke, don't fix it! Or in my case, if it ain't broke, don't replace it! :)
And here is the link: good luck!

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/cinnamon-rolls-recipe/

~audrey