Cinnamon Twists

  First of all let me just state that Jeanette Gregory makes THEE BEST Cinnamon twists ever,  and I do mean EVER!!  I got to have one (or two) of those glorious concoctions a couple of weeks ago and haven't stopped drooling about them since!!  So this weekend I decided to attempt some myself--albeit without Jeanette's recipe--I'm telling you hers are so light, and fluffy, and cinnamonishy, truly THEE BEST!!!  So without her recipe, I started with my sister-in-law, Pam's, cinnamon roll dough recipe, a really great recipe in itself!!  The recipe is easy and I just threw everything in the bread machine and hit the dough cycle.  The recipe is as follows:

CINNAMON ROLL DOUGH

1 1/8 C. warm water

2 tsp. yeast

1 tsp. salt

1/3 C. sugar

3 C. flour

3 T. soft butter

I removed the dough from the bread machine and rolled it into a 9X13 rectangle on a floured surface, and then slathered it liberally with butter and cinnamon sugar.  Then I folded it in half and cut it into 1" strips.  I placed these strips onto a greased cookie sheet and twisted them so they end up looking kind of like a 2-stranded braid.  I let them raise for 1 hr. 15 minutes.  I baked them (this recipe made about a dozen twists) at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes then drizzled the twists with powdered sugar icing when they came out of the oven. 

POWDERED SUGAR ICING

2 T. butter

1/2 t. vanilla

2 T. milk

2 C. powdered sugar

Melt butter, milk and vanilla, add sugar and mix.

The results are shown below--see the "2-strand braid" effect?

They were enjoyed immensely by my hubby who put on bib overalls just so he'd have extra room for extra cinnamon twists.....

...well not really--he's recently started wearing bibs around the house.  Which kind of makes me wonder if he hasn't turned into his Uncle Bernard a decade or two too early?!?!?  At any rate, the Cinnamon Twists were yummy but not quite as yummy as Jeanette's.  I found her recipe in an old church cookbook so I'll let you know how they turn out when I have a chance to try them!!