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I woke up and I didn't want to make cookies (its wednesday).

I wanted to make cinnamon rolls.

And I can, cause its my birthday, dangit.

These rolls are soooo ridiculously easy and so insanely good.

You.Must.Make.Them.

They take less than an hour and a half from start to consumption.(yes you just read that sentence correctly)

• (for my vegan friends, cut out the egg, use soy and margarine and it should work the same! I would just add a little more yeast though. and for frosting, just dont do cream cheese kind)
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• 3/4 cup milk (we only have soy, and it worked fine)
• 1/4 cup butter
• 3 cups flour
• 2 1/2 tsp yeast or one package yeast
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup water
• 1 egg
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 tbsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp nutmeg
• 1 tsp ground cloves
• 1 tbsp hazelnut coffee creamer (dry kind)
• 1/2 cube butter, soft
• if you are the governor of Crazytown, then you would add 1/2 cup raisins. But only if you are that crazy.

(a way to involve your kid, with out letting them screw it up: have them dump a LOT of flour into a separate bowl, and congratulate them frequently)

1. Heat the milk and butter in a sauce pan until the butter is all melted and its allllmost bubbling (watch it).
2. In a big bowl, combine 2 1/4 cup flour, yeast, sugar and salt; mix well. Add water, egg and the milk mixture (when its a little cooler); beat well. Slowly add more and more flour until the dough has just pulled together, turn it out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth, aboooout 5 minutes.
3. Cover the dough with towel and let t have a little break for about 10 minutes. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix together brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and coffee creamer.
4. Roll out dough into a roughly 12x9 inch rectangle. smear the dough with the soft half cube butter and then sprinkle the sugar-goodness mixture (may not need it all). this is the part, that if you are crazy, you add the raisins.
5. now roll that sucker up, use dental floss (slide floss underneath, cross above and pull) to cut into twelve little lovelies and place them in a greased 9x9.
6. let it raise for about minutes. (Mine usually do not look any different after)
7. bake them at 375 for about 20 minutes. Just watch them, when the tops are a little brown, their goose is cooked.
8. DOUSE them in cream cheese frosting: 1 (8 oz) package of cream cheese, 1/2 cube butter, 2 to 3 cups sugar (depending on how gooey you want) and some vanilla.

Then run a marathon after eating the whole pan. Cause you are going to want to. But these calories dont count for me today, cause its my birthday.