Happy Monday! I hope you guys have the day off and get to enjoy an extra day of relaxation and fun.
I have to tell you though, I totally hate post office holidays. On a normal day, I know that even if my day is horrible, I still have hope that maybe there will be a fabulous pyrex dish or a bottle of nailpolish or a magazine in the mailbox. Today, I just have to hope that the day doesn’t suck.
Deployment. It does weird things to your brain.
To update you, I only cried at one of the school conferences. And to be fair, it had absolutely nothing to do with school. I was just a mess.
We did go to the grand opening of Trader Joe’s afterwards. WHICH WAS AWESOME. The checkout line wrapped around the store twice but really, we weren’t there more than an hour and a half. And then I ate nothing but pumpkin ravioli, pumpkin cornbread croutons, and pumpkin salted caramels the rest of the weekend.
Hmm, what else?
If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I’ve been really annoyed with our internet service provider. I cannot deal with slow internet but I’m stuck with this provider since we live on an army post and it’s our only option.
Anyway, I literally called them 7 times last week to have them reset my modem and a guy even came out once to look at it. So Saturday night the entire network on Fort Carson went down. And stayed down for 12 hours.
Do you know how badly I wanted to call and sit on hold for an hour just to say “I TOLD YOU SOMETHING WAS WRONG!” and then hang up?
No internet issues since they got it back up and running.
Next time, maybe Baja Broadband will listen to the resident internet addict when she says that something is terribly wrong.
Ugh, I love being right.
I also continued my butterscotch obsession by making a butterscotch glaze. And since I needed something to put the glaze on, I made pumpkin cinnamon rolls! They turned out so yummy and I may or may not have had a couple for dinner one night. Oops.
I have a pumpkin cinnamon roll recipe that I’ve used for years and years (it’s our usual Christmas morning breakfast!) and it actually uses a butterscotch pudding mix so check that one out if you’re crazy about butterscotch like I am!
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- 1/3 cup warm milk around 100-110F
- 2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup canned pumpkin
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 1 large egg
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon ground clove
- 3 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter softened
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons cream cheese softened
- 1/4 cup butterscotch chips
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 2/3 cup powdered sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
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To make the dough, in a large mixing bowl whisk together 1/3 cup milk, yeast and granulated sugar until well combined. Allow to sit for 10 minutes until yeast is activated and bubbly. Whisk in pumpkin, oil, egg, baking powder, salt, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and clove until well combined. Stir in flour until combined, and a ball of dough forms. Put the dough in a bowl sprayed with oil and cover. Let rise in a warm area for about 60 minutes or until doubled in size.
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On a floured surface, roll out dough into a rectangle, about 1/4" thick. Spread softened butter over the surface of the dough.
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In a small bowl, stir together brown sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over butter. Roll up dough, jelly-roll style. Slice into 10 equal pieces. Place in a greased 9-inch cake pan. Lightly cover and allow to rise in a warm area for 30 minutes.
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Heat oven to 375F. Bake rolls for 20 - 25 minutes or until golden brown. Cool pan on a wire rack.
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To make the glaze, beat the cream cheese in an electric mixer until smooth.
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Put butterscotch chips and milk in a saucepan over low heat. Stir constantly until butterscotch is completely melted and is combined with the milk. Pour into the mixer with the cream cheese and beat on low until combined. Beat in powdered sugar and vanilla; continue beating until smooth. Drizzle over cinnamon rolls.
This has got to be the best flavor combination for cinnamon rolls ever!! I love your obsession with pumpkin – what you ate this weekend sounds pretty much the best ever. And Yay for finally getting your internet fixed – what a pain!!
Ack, you wouldn’t happen to have Comcast, would you. We have Comcast for internet and cable and their service is a NIGHTMARE! Glad you were able to finally get things worked out!
So onto the pumpkin rolls. Holy cow. When you think nothing can outdo a gooey cinnamon roll, something like this comes along. *swoon* Great recipe, Amanda!
Not Comcast this time but we’ve used them in the past and they were HORRIBLE. Why must all internet/cable companies suck?!
Some days are just bad and I can imagine it would be amplified with your husband on deployment. Just know how thankful we are for guys like your husband.
I don’t think I’ve ever made anything out of buttercotch. This looks awesome. Cinnamon rolls are my all time favorite! That’s some seriously goodness!
Yeast and I really need to learn to get along… I want to make these cinnamon rolls SO badly!
Next time I’m sure they won’t be so quick to dismiss your call about the internet being wrong!!! And pumpkin food all weekend long…I love it!!! Especially the pumpkin rolls with butterscotch glaze…oh, my word! Those sound abso-freaking-tabulous!!!!
I need pumpkin in EVERYTHING this time of year! These look great
I will be craving these all day! LOVE cinnamon rolls with fall flavors! The pumpkin butterscotch combo sounds divine!
So many people have mentioned to me today that their kids have no school. I was like “whaaaaa?” Mine did not get the day off, but now you’ve reminded me there’s no mail >> which is always so disappointing. Although I don’t know why, since it’s always filled with bills. Blerg.
Anyway, so completely love that you used butterscotch chips. I feel like they’re the bastard chip that never gets any good attention!
These look amazing! I love how light and fluffy they look! I made pumpkin cinn rolls a couple weeks ago and now you’re making me crave them again! Pinned!
I am intrigued by your pudding mix version, too. It’s always a workhorse!
oh I just LOVE everything about this :) the pumpkin part the cinnamon part and the butterscotch glaze…these are a must make!
Ohhh these look amazing!
Oh my that glaze! What a fantastic combination, and I can only imagine how nicely it tastes with the pumpkin and yeasty rolls.
I want to just drink the glaze! Butterscotch is a favorite that I don’t often do anything with :(
Our TJ’s was supposed to open this month too, but got delayed 4 months. I am beyond annoyed!! I will miss all their pumpkin stuff – urgh!
I seriously want to turn the tables on internet providers. I think they should all be forced to wait all day for us. Just once I’d like to schedule an appointment with them and leave them sitting on the porch for 7 hours. Or on hold while I play harmonica music for them, for 3 hours.
Still no Trader Joe’s here. Makes me sad. But we’re moving up in the world, we just got our first Sephora. So goodbye all my free cash, it was nice knowing you.
Okay, while I’m not a huge pumpkin girl (isn’t that illegal for foodies?) the flipping butterscotch glaze is just screaming “make me” right now. I have nothing to slather it on but I could just pipe it right into my piehole right. Totally acceptable behaviour at 2 am.
Oh my! That glaaaaaaaaze. Looks so yummy!
grrr on slow internet…and nice work only crying once during the conferences. ;)
These pumpkin cinnamon rolls look amazing + that glaze…so good.
I love that you mentioned a Christmas morning breakfast- these rolls are PERFECT for that! I keep meaning to set aside a good option for just that purpose and I think these are it, these rolls look GLORIOUS. :)
I’m actually too lazy to make these myself, so can you please just come over and make them for me. Actually, it sounds like you’ve got your hands full, so I’ll come pick them up. Is Saturday morning good for you?
I’m sorry about the crying. It’s hard enough to be a wreck, but having to go have a meeting and cry in front of someone who’s not your immediate family or therapist is rough. I hope things are looking up.