Sweet Goodbyes

Matt Davis - at Bagley's Guthrie, OK

This week we said a sad farewell to Matt, as he was headed back home to his family. But he couldn't leave without fulfilling his promise: cinnamon rolls + pastry dough! My - oh, my.

He changed up the pastry dough just a tad, but it was pretty similar to the original dough he made. Here's what he did this time:

Start with two sticks of butter, soften. Mix the butter with two TB flour and roll between two sheets of wax paper and refrigerated until hard. Smile because you have sheets of butter in your fridge again :)

DOUGH -
Dry ingredients: 2 cups flour, tsp salt, and 1/4 sugar. Mix well.

Wet ingredients (biggest differences are here): warm up 1 cup buttered milk & 1/4 cup heavy cream to luke warm temp. Beat in 1 egg.

Pour in dry ingredients. Add yeast mix and 1/2 stick butter - mix all together.

Lastly: add flour (1/4 cup at a time until dough loses stickiness). Kneed on a floured surface for five minutes - follow pastry procedure (fold into 1/3rds twice) (pastry instructions here: http://yourmomsinthekitchen.blogspot.com/2012/07/cream-cheese-and-chocolate-danish.html).

Make cinnamon rolls as usual (see how here: http://yourmomsinthekitchen.blogspot.com/2012/07/let-me-see-that-tootsie-roll.html). He made these with cinnamon - not cocoa powder.

Let them rise in the pan before you cook them.

Baking time. It took them a while to bake because we kept peaking in to see how the dough was turning out - perfectly flaky of course!

  

While they were baking, Matt whipped together the icing: butter (surprise, surprise), cream cheese, and powdered sugar.
 

Just as soon as you pull them out of the oven, slather on the icing. You can never put on enough - just keep going until you've used everything in the bowl.

If you do have leftover icing - Matt suggests using it later by putting it on top of a ball of raw cookie dough (don't even act like you won't be trying this). 

We didn't get a chance to take a picture of the absolute final product because these went from the oven, to just barely being iced, to directly into our mouths! I think we had this whole pan gone by the end of the day... don't judge!

Huge success as these were the most savory treats imaginable. Each layer of the buttery dough was so delicious and the morsels with cinnamon were to die for! Try it - right now.

Also, thank you Matt for transforming our kitchen and our worlds. We wish you the best life has to offer.

(We have an open room now - any new takers? Only one requirement, you must cook for us!)

Happy eating!