General Conference Brunch

Who doesn't love General Conference? In our family we like to make it a special occasion. We have different activities for the younger ones, and we always do a big Brunch.

This Saturday morning we had homemade Monkey Bread and scrambled eggs. Full credit goes to my sister, Deborah, who woke up at 6:30 to make it, while I was still asleep. Monkey Bread has always had a way of bringing the sleepy kids to the table.

 

Monkey Bread

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 cans (16.3 oz each) biscuits
• 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 3/4 cup butter or margarine, melted

Steps

1. Heat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease 12-cup fluted tube pan with shortening or cooking spray. In large -storage plastic food bag, mix granulated sugar and cinnamon.
2. Separate dough into 16 biscuits; cut each into quarters. Shake in bag to coat. Arrange in pan, adding walnuts and raisins among the biscuit pieces.
3. In small bowl, mix brown sugar and butter; pour over biscuit pieces.
4. Bake 28 to 32 minutes or until golden brown and no longer doughy in center. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Turn upside down onto serving plate; pull apart to serve. Serve warm.

(We 1 1/2 times-ed this to make 6 mini Bundt pans for everybody.)

On Sunday I did the brunch with the help of my mom. Our first attempt at the cinnamon roll dough was a BUST! It didn't rise so my mom came to the rescue and helped make a new batch. Kneading the dough was my favorite part. I haven't really made cinnamon rolls before but I am definitely making them again sometime! It’s a lot of fun. With this brunch I have learned some more new skills like telling if the dough is rising (the first batch was a flop), kneading, how to properly roll out the dough, and more! 
Skill level: Intermediate
Here’s the link to the website we used :Clone of a Cinnabon

 

Ingredients

• 1 cup warm milk
• 2 eggs room temperature 
• 4 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup margarine, melted
• 1/2 cup white  sugar
• 2 1/2 teaspoons bread machine yeast 
• 1 cup brown sugar packed
• 2 1/2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
• 1/3 cup butter, softened
• 1 (3 ounce) package of cream cheese, softened
• 1/4 cup butter. softened
•   1 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon salt

Steps

1.   Dissolve the yeast in the warm milk in a large bowl, mix in the sugar, margarine, salt, and eggs add the flour and mix well.
2. Knead the dough into a large ball, using your hands lightly dusted with flour. 
3. Put in a bowl,  and cover and let rise in a warm place for about 1 hour, or until doubled in size.  
4. then roll out the dough into a 16x21 –inch rectangle.
5. Spread dough with 1/3 cup butter  and evenly and brown sugar and cinnamon and any other toppings if you want.
6. Roll up dough and cut into 12 rolls, place rolls in a lightly greased 9x13 pan or cookie sheet cover and let rise until nearly doubled in size, about 30 minutes while                         they rise, preheat oven to 400 degrees F

bake in oven until golden brown, about 15 minutes. while the rolls are baking, beat together cream cheese,1/4 cup butter, confectioners sugar, vanilla extract 1/8 teaspoon salt. spread frosting over cinnamon rolls and serve warm.

Enjoy the cinnamon rolls!!!