Ooey, gooey cinnamon rolls. Is there really anything better to wake up to? On a cold winter morning when you don't really want to get out of bed. The type of morning where you know you'll end up wearing your PJs all day, unless you put in the effort to throw on a pair of yoga pants. The day you know you'll just want to snuggle on the couch watching trashy TV and eating guilty pleasure food all day. Well, if you know the night before that you're going to wake up to that kind of day, you want this recipe. You do all the work ahead of time and in the morning you'll actually want to get out of bed just to turn on the oven and get these lovely, sweet, messy, warm, tasty cinnamon roll baking just so you can devour the whole pan while watching [insert favorite reality TV marathon here]. Totally. Worth. It.
I made these when Dave's cousin Mike and his wife Donna came to visit because I knew if I made them for just Dave and I, we'd eat the whole pan. Having guests eat a couple made it feel less indulgent. At least I guess so because Dave ate three of them. These were phenomenal. The filling is amazing and the dough is soft and perfect. Start to finish these guys do take about 16 hours, but most of that is resting time (in fact, I was surprised how little I worked with the dough). But you'll still want to plan ahead to make sure you'll be in the kitchen when you need to move on to the next step. Again: Totally. Worth. It.
