No raisins. No nuts. No crap.

I am working at Kroger since I’m not on tour. I had to clean the biscuits and cinnamon rolls cooler out this morning. So naturally I wanted to make homemade cinnamon rolls. But apparently everyone and their momma thinks it’s okay to put raisins or nuts in the cinnamon rolls. I’ve combined the best recipes into Katelyn’s Plain Jane Cinnamon Rolls Recipe. Enjoy. Or don’t. I don’t care.

Ingredients:

Dough:
– 1/4 oz active dry yeast (one little packet)
– 1/2 cup of warm water
– 1/2 cup of scalded milk (put it in a pot on the stove, heat to 180 degrees Fahrenheit)
– 1/4 cup of white sugar
– 1/3 cup of melted butter
– 1 teaspoon of salt
– 1 large egg
– 3 1/2 to 4 cups of flour (2 cups separated out)
Filling:
– 1/2 cup of melted butter
– 3/4 of sugar + some extra because why not
– 2 tablespoons of ground cinnamon
Glaze (more like icing because I know you’re going to ice the heck out of these):
– 4 tablespoons of butter
– 2 cups of powdered sugar
– 1 teaspoon of vanilla (the real stuff, not that imitation BS)
– 5 to 6 tablespoons of hot water

Make the dough:

1. Put the yeast in the half cup of warm water. Set aside.
2. Mix the scalded milk, sugar, butter, salt, and egg together.
3. Add 2 cups of the flour and mix.
4. Add the yeast.
5. Add the remaining 1 to 1 1/2 cups of flour as you mix.
6. Once you have a proper dough, knead for five to ten minutes.
7. Grease a bowl. Throw the dough in. Cover it. Let that baby rise for 90 minutes.
8. Okay then you’re going to “punch it down,” which apparently means literally punch it in the bowl. Here’s a YouTube video.
9. Then throw some flour on your CLEAN kitchen counter and you throw the dough down. Roll that thing into a big rectangle. Like 16″ by 9″ IDK. Make the filling & add it
10. Spread the half cup of melted butter all over it. I mean soak it.
11. Combine the sugar & cinnamon. Then sprinkle it all over the buttered dough.
12. Roll it hot dog style into a tube. Start from the bottom so you don’t get butter all over your floor & cabinets.
13. Cut it into about 15 to 20 slices. IDK how to tell you how to do this. You just make it into cinnamon rolls.
14. Coat your pan with some melted butter and a bit of sugar. Then put your little rolls on it. We used a Lodge cast iron pro griddle.
15. Let the little rolls rise for 45 minutes. Go ahead and preheat your oven to 350 now.
16. Then bake those babies! For 25 minutes.

Make the glaze.

17. While they’re baking, mix the butter, sugar, and vanilla together for the glaze.
18. Add the water a tablespoon at a time until you get the consistency you want.
19. Take those bad boys out and dump the glaze on them.
20. Enjoy.