So I'm reading this "cozy mystery" on my Kindle portable library and I
see recipes bunged in every few chapters. So, thinks I, "Why don't I
MM these guys up to add to the data base?" This is the first of them -
which took me, probably, as long to get into Meal Muncher as the recipe
would take to get right up to popping the rolls into the over. Ms Fluke
writes good, terse prose but her recipes are long-winded. IMO

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Title: Special Cinnamon Rolls - Pt 1
Categories: Breads, Snacks, Chocolate, Herbs
Yield: 12 servings

1/2 c Hot coffee
1/2 c Whole milk
1 tb Granulated sugar
1/4 oz Env dry active yeast
1/4 c Salted butter
1 tb Vegetable oil
1 lg Egg
1 ts Salt
1/4 c White sugar
3 c (to 3 1/2 c) (packed) A-P
- flour

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1/2 c Salted butter; softened
1 tb Ground cinnamon
3/4 c Granulated sugar
1 c Semisweet chocolate chips

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2 tb Softened butter
2 tb Granulated sugar
1 ts Ground cinnamon

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1 c Confectioner's sugar
1 tb Salted butter; melted
1 tb Milk
1/2 ts Vanilla

DO NOT preheat oven. This dough needs to rise before baking.

In a small microwave-safe container, combine the hot coffee with the
half-cup milk. Microwave it on HIGH for 30 seconds. Stir in the
Tablespoon of white sugar. Then pour a half-cup of the mixture into
another container. Add the packet of yeast to the microwave-safe
container and gently stir it in. Let it sit on the counter to proof
(that's what they call it when yeast starts working and bubbling)
while you

Melt the butter in another small microwave container. It should only
take about 30 seconds on HIGH. Add the Tablespoon of vegetable oil and
let it sit on the counter to cool.

In a medium-size bowl, use a wooden spoon or a fork to beat the egg
with the salt, the white sugar, and the coffee and milk mixture that
does NOT contain the yeast.

Feel the small bowl with the butter and oil mixture. If it's not so
hot it could cook the egg, stir it into your work bowl.

Add 1 and 1/2 cups of the flour. Stir it in and continue to stir until
the mixture is smooth.

Now add the yeast mixture. (See how puffy it is? Your yeast is
working.) Stir it in gently.

Add 1 and 1/2 more cups of flour in half-cup increments, stirring
after each addition. (Remember to pack it down in the cup!) If the
dough seems sticky, add that last half-cup of flour and stir that in.

Now comes the fun. Clear a space on your counter for the bread board.
If you don’t have a bread board, just clear a nice clean space on your
counter.

Dust your work space with flour, spreading it out in a circle with
your impeccably clean palms. Then upend your work bowl and plop the
dough down on your floured circle. Sprinkle more flour over the top
of your dough. Then grab it and flip it over so the bottom is now the
top.

Think about that old flame who broke up with you in high school, or
anyone else in your past you’d really like to slap or punch. Visualize
that person's face in the center of your mound of dough, pick up one
edge and punch it down hard in the center of the dough. Fun, wasn't
it?

Turn your dough clockwise and do it all over again. Keep turning and
punching and pummeling that dough for the whole 5 minutes, flipping it
over every minute or so to make sure you're also kneading the bottom.

CONTINUED TO PART 2

RECIPE FROM: Cinnamon Roll Murder (Hannah Swensen series Book 15)

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