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Chocolate Sweet Rolls

Matt Davis - visiting the Bagley's in Guthrie, OK

This is the third time he's made cinnamon rolls in 2 weeks. So, he upped the ante - chocolate - EVERYTHING!

You start by making the dough. Mix the wet (or moist) ingredients together, then add the dry ingredients. Stop a million times for ridiculous photos.

Mix the ingredients until you are able to knead them together.

Then cover with plastic wrap and let rise. NOTE: He used wax paper since we were out of plastic wrap.

MATT NOTE: Warm the oven to 150 degrees. Turn oven off and let the dough rise in the warmed oven.

Huzzah - thanks yeasties!

Then you take it out and roll it onto a pre-powedered-with-flour-flat-surface. Phew.

Then you spread the delicious chocolate (usually cinnamon) inside all over the dough and roll it up!

He added a little bit of cinnamon to the last third of the sweet rolls to see if it would make the chocolate pop!

Use a piece of thread to cut the rolls by sliding it under the roll, bringing the two ends up together, and crossing the strands. Repeat the process until you've cut the whole loaf into wonderful little morsels of goodness. You can make them as thick or thin as you prefer.

Oopsie! They're not ready yet Evan!

Place the rolls on a pre-greased-with-vegtable-oil-9x13-pan. Phew again! We fit 19 rolls onto the pan with 3 rows of 5 and 1 row of 4 - hopefully it works - fingers crossed.

After you set those aside to let them rise some more, you'll make the icing. Matt whipped up two different icings for this batch. One was a buttery, cream cheese and powdered sugar delight.

And the other was a Dunkin' Donuts inspired chocolate cream splendor. Yes, like the chocolate cream icing they put in the middle of a chocolate cream donut! And he left it sitting on our counter - taunting us... How VERY DARE he!

Bake them for 20 minutes at 375 degrees. Take them out and cover them with tin foil for another 5 minutes (so the edges don't get to crunchy brown - duh!).

Ice them while they're still warm. Let the icing flow freely over the sweet rolls and drool and drool and drool...

...and drool and drool and drool...

And here's a close up on those melting chocolate chips...

...and DEVOUR!!

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