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… and taste VERY yummy.

Yesterday I began the process of making some most excellent Cinnamon Sticky Buns, I was more than a little nervous. While most of my lunches/dinners have turned out OK, I was still remembering the incident with the pineapple upside-down cake.

I was mostly concerned about using yeast. I’ve never really used yeast before in cooking/baking… that was one of those mysterious things that my mom occasionally used, and even then I was never around to pay attention.

I followed the recipe closely, put the dough in a buttered bowl and set it in a pool of sunlight in the living room (on top of the little footstools from the Attic/Mom), after awhile, I went and checked on it, it had risen, it was nearly double its size.

That was very exciting, very very exciting, I think I did a little dance around the kitchen, I was that excited.

My excitement was rather short lived, after I cut the roll into slices, I looked back at the pictures… my rolls looked puny, couldn’t be placed that close together (if they were they’d only fill about 3/4 of the pan)… I felt like crying.

Instead, I slid the pan into the fridge and left it there until this morning. I did tell Gavin about them, so he wouldn’t be too shocked to see them in the fridge, but I didn’t tell him of my culinary shortcoming.

This morning, Gavin slipped them into the oven (and forgot to set a timer for 30 minutes). The rolls came out a little doughy, rather gooey, incredibly sticky, and VERY yummy… and some of them looked better than the ones in the pictures.