Blog Envy: Top Ten Recipes You’ve Been Meaning to Make.

For this month's Top Ten Challenge from Food Nerd, we are to make a top ten list of recipes we have been meaning to make.  We are then supposed to select one, let that blogger know we are going to make their recipe, then make it and post about it.  So, this is my top ten list of recipes to make.  Some of them have been on my list for quite some time.  However, that doesn't mean that I haven't been dreaming about making them someday.  So, here is my Top Ten list of recipes I have been meaning to make.  The recipe I will be making for this challenge is the top recipe for Cream Cheese Cinnamon Rolls.  So, I will update this post once that part of the challenge is completed.  Be sure to check out the other tasty recipes on this list.  Ooh, it was so hard to choose just one to make.  I'm sure the others will be made, all in good time. :D

1.  Cream Cheese Cinnamon Rolls from Joy the Baker

2.  Lava Cookie from Cake Spy

3.  Guiness Bread with Molasses from Simply Recipes

4.  Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream from David Lebovitz's Blog

5.  Brownie Chunk Cookies from Jumbo Empanadas

6.  Raspberry and Pink Peppercorn Macarons from Cannelle et Vanille

7.  Vanilla Bourbon Bread from Genesis of a Cook

8.  Cake Doughnuts from Bakerella

9.  Biscuits with Sausage and Sage Gravy from Pinch My Salt

10. Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake from Smitten Kitchen

Update on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 11:46PM by [Sarah]

Well, I made Joy's cream cheese cinnamon rolls! They were absolutely divine right out of the oven. They were still incredibly delicious later, when they were room temperature. One thing I have wondered about with cinnamon rolls, is how to avoid the centers popping up higher than the rest of the cinnamon roll during the rising and baking time. If anyone has any good advice, that would help me out a lot!

I made a few tweaks to the recipe. I omitted the raisins and used only walnuts. I also increased the salt a tiny bit and used more cinnamon. I also made cream cheese icing using 4 ounces of cream cheese, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, 1/4 cup milk and 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar.

Super recipe! Give it a try!

Comments

[Kelly]

Those look fantastic. I can tell the bread part is soft and delicious. I've also wondered about the middles rising much higher during baking. I've tried to roll them a little more loosely, but I don't remember if that worked. I'm not much help, am I?