Cinnabon Clone

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/clone-of-a-cinnabon/

After an entire week of NOT cooking breakfast, lunch, or dinner... I find myself scrambling to get back into it. Wrapping my head around WHAT to cook and the sad reality that I'll have to start cleaning everything after I've done something in the kitchen... has me dragging my feet. I have a few NEW recipes on deck starting with this one... I'm going to try it tomorrow for breakfast. I heard, it's better than sex. Yes... my eyes got a little bigger when this comment came from a very close and reliable friend. So, I'm ready for the experience... I wanted to make it this morning... but the reality that it would take almost a full hour from beginning to end, I chose to sleep in instead. Tomorrow I'm going to get up nice and early to try it out.

9-16-12 UPDATE: WHEW! Ok, finally sitting down to eat these bad boys. I woke up at 6am & we didn't start eating them until 9:15am... and I was hypersensitive from the get go what needed to be done and when and worked as quickly as I could. I think they are pretty good. I would give them, hm... maybe a B+/A-. It didn't rate higher because 1. the time it took to make these was REDICULOUS... and 2. the frosting was ok... I think I would have liked more of a cream cheese flavor OH and 3. some of the brown sugar/cinnamon filling actually started to get stringy and sticky and crunchy... I made a LOT of cinnamon rolls in my baking career and the filling should be more like a smear than this... So, it is possible that I would go through all this trouble if I had to, but if I don't have to... I probably won't do it again... The recipe is a keeper- unless something else better came along...

UPDATE Part II- I realized as I was driving over to the grocery store... you need to take the butter, cinnamon & sugar and beat that together as a paste and smear it on... Also, For my taste, I would cut back on the butter a bit and increase the cream cheese... ;) If I made those tweeks, I'd rate it higher- like an A, maybe even an A+