christmas brunch: prepping ahead for goodness
[source: boastfulbaker.com]
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Since we hosted Christmas brunch this year for both sets of parents, I wanted to make sure that everything was really easy to prepare and get ready in the morning… so that the pots and pans could be reserved for the “cooking and prepping” for that night’s feast. After finding the drunken citrus salad, I settled on two more dishes. One was a tried and true recipe (the amazing goat cheese quiche w/hashbrown crust from last year… with bacon added this time around!), and the other was a recipe that seems to be trusted all over the internet: Alton Brown’s overnight cinnamon rolls.
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If you already didn’t know, Alton Brown is a food science genius. He experiments with everything and gets it right… then teaches us how to do it with both logic and a bit of cooking magic. I found his recipe online, and when I noticed that it had 5 stars and 264 online ratings… I really didn’t doubt that it was the perfect recipe for the holidays! I made the rolls on Christmas Eve with ease, thanks to my dough hook on the KitchenAid mixer, and plopped them into the fridge to wait for the next morning. The only tricky part is asking your rolls to rise with the use of boiling water, but the rest is seriously a piece of cake.
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And the result??? Amazing cinnamon rolls. Not too sweet or gooey… just the perfect amount of sugar and bread that everyone deserves to celebrate with! They also kept quite well for the not-so-awesome Boxing Day breakfast… which makes it the perfect weekend recipe for anyone really. Well, I guess two people shouldn’t eat 12 cinnamon rolls over 2 days, but they’d be great for early Pacific time zone football parties??
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If you already didn’t know, Alton Brown is a food science genius. He experiments with everything and gets it right… then teaches us how to do it with both logic and a bit of cooking magic. I found his recipe online, and when I noticed that it had 5 stars and 264 online ratings… I really didn’t doubt that it was the perfect recipe for the holidays! I made the rolls on Christmas Eve with ease, thanks to my dough hook on the KitchenAid mixer, and plopped them into the fridge to wait for the next morning. The only tricky part is asking your rolls to rise with the use of boiling water, but the rest is seriously a piece of cake.
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And the result??? Amazing cinnamon rolls. Not too sweet or gooey… just the perfect amount of sugar and bread that everyone deserves to celebrate with! They also kept quite well for the not-so-awesome Boxing Day breakfast… which makes it the perfect weekend recipe for anyone really. Well, I guess two people shouldn’t eat 12 cinnamon rolls over 2 days, but they’d be great for early Pacific time zone football parties??
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