No Fail Rolls or Buns (Depending Where You're From!)

Recipe via Sherry Smith (same recipe as Laura Taylor)

Let set for 15 minutes:

     2 cups warm water

     1/2 cup sugar

     2 TBSP Instant yeast

Add:

     1/2 cup oil

     1 1/2 tsp salt
     3 eggs
     2 cups flour

Mix together until there are no lumps

Slowly add:
     4 more cups of flour

Knead until you have a soft dough
Let rise 1 hour
Form into balls and place on greased pan    (Place on pan - 5 across and 7 down)
Let rise again for 1 1/2 hours
Bake in preheated oven @ 350* for minutes or until golden brown

For buns can butter tops

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This dough is good made as:

Cinnamon rolls:

Filling: 

     1/2 cup brown sugar 

     1 TBSP cinnamon

     melted butter 

On bottom of pan:

Opt #1:  Sprinkle brown sugar or put little bit of syrup in bottom baking pan or muffin tin (put 1 bun in each muffin cup)

Opt #2 (Shelly's version):   Mix brown sugar and cream together and pour in pan around buns - makes a caramel glaze on bottom

Glaze:   (Recipe via Lorraine Boehme)

Mix together and glaze with:

     1 1/2 cups icing sugar

     2 TBSP butter

     2 TBSP cream cheese

     2 TBSP cream or milk

     1/2 tsp maple flavoring

Glaze #2 Variation:   (Recipe via Barb Holt)     1/2 cup butter

     1 1/2 cups brown sugar

     1/4 cup corn syrup

     little whipping cream

Cook over medium heat until sugar dissolves

Pour over hot baked cinnamon buns - let sit for a minute

and then turn upside down

Caramel Glaze for Cinnamon Buns

English Toffee recipe (Recipe via corine Schneider)

In a saucepan combine:

     1 cup butter

     2 cups brown sugar

     1 cup corn syrup

     1 can condensed milk

Stir constantly and cook at medium-low heat

Cook 20 minutes from time starts to boil

Mix in:

     1 block of cream cheese softened - mixture will soften

Brush over cooked cinnamon buns

Orange Rolls (Recipe via Barb Holt)

Make a mixture of :

     1 cup butter                                     

     1 cup icing sugar

     grated rind of 2 oranges

Spread onto rolled out dough, roll up, place in a greased 

9 x 13 pan or muffin tin and let rise

Bake @ 350* for 15 - 20 minutes and turn out on a cooling rack or sheet of parchment or tin foil

Orange Glaze:

1 cup icing sugar

1 tsp finely grated orange peel

1 -2 TBSP orange juice

Butter Bread Sticks:

     Roll dough into sticks, then into butter and sprinkle with seasoning, (garlic salt, seasoning salt or Italian Seasoning Garlic Bread Seasonin from Our Best Bites)

Bake as directed above