Basic Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

Here is a basic cream cheese recipe for future reference. Its wayy easy!

4 Ounces of Cream Cheese
4 Tbsp Butter
4 1/2 Cups Powdered Sugar
1/4 Cup Milk
1 tsp Vanilla

*if you want your frosting more solid, put in only about 1/4 cup of milk. However, keep adding milk for a more runny consistency

Pumpkin Pie Cinnamon Rolls

So, Patrick's mistress is cinnamon rolls...he loves them! So for his birthday, he obviously picked cinnamon rolls as his birthday dessert and was awesome enough to let me try a pumpkin cinnamon roll recipe! I looked all over online for a recipe that didn't make me use odd ingredients that I probably won't use very much. This was a very simple recipe that made my apartment smell heavenly! I found this recipe for Pumpkin Pie Cinnamon Rolls on a blog and decided to pair it with a Cinnamon Ginger Cream Cheese Frosting. So, without further ado, here is the recipe! (P.S. sorry about the crappy picture, my camera's charger is MIA right now so I've resorted to using my phone)

Cinnamon Roll Dough

1/4 Cup Warm Water

1 Packet (or 2 1/4 tsp) of Dry Active Yeast

1/3 Cup Warm Milk

3/4 Cup Pumpkin Puree

1 Egg

1 Tbsp Melted Butter

3-4 Cups All-Purpose Flour

1/2 Cup Brown Sugar

1 tsp. Salt

3/4 tsp. Cinnamon

1/4 tsp. Ground Ginger

Filling

1/4 Cup Melted Butter

3/4 Cup Brown Sugar

Cinnamon

Pumpkin Pie Spice

Directions:

1. Combine water, yeast, and milk in a small bowl and let it sit for five minutes to activate the yeast

2. Combine all ingredients (including separate yeast mix) and only 1 1/2 cups of flour and beat until mixed

3. Gradually add the rest of the flour to the bowl and mix well

4. Knead the dough until its smooth and stretchy

5. Place the dough in a lightly greased bowl and turn the dough over until all dough is greased 

6. Cover with plastic wrap and let it sit somewhere warm for an hour

7. Roll dough into an 18-20 inch rectangle on a lightly floured surface

8. Bast the dough with the 1/4 cup of melted butter 

9. Sprinkle the brown sugar evenly on the dough

10. Sprinkle to cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice with the amount you'd like in your rolls.

11. Roll dough into a "log" and slice into 15 slices

12. Place the newly cute slices into an ungreased 9x13 cake pan and cover with a clean towel 

13. Let it rise for 45 minutes until doubled in size

14. Bake @ 375° for 20-30 minutes

The frosting recipe will be in the next post. Its a pretty basic cream cheese frosting recipe and can have your favorite ingredients added to it. Anyways, eat and enjoy:)