Golf Cart Cinnamon Rolls

Name: Golf Cart Cinnamon Rolls
Yield: 2 dozen rolls
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 eggs; ½ cup [100 g] plus 1 Tbsp granulated sugar; Two ¼ oz [7 g] packages active dry yeast; 1 cup [240 ml] whole milk; 4 Tbsp [58 g] unsalted butter, at room temperature, plus ½ cup [115 g], melted, and more for greasing the bowl; 6 cups [750 g] all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting; ½ tsp nutmeg; ½ tsp cinnamon; 2 tsp salt; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 2 Tbsp lemon zest (about 1 lemon’s worth; use the juice for the icing); 8 oz [225 g] cream cheese, at room temperature; 2 cups [250 g] confectioners’ sugar; 1½ cups [255 g] light brown sugar; 2 cups [200 g] pecans, chopped; 1 tsp nutmeg; 5 Tbsp [30 g] cinnamon; ½ cup [115 g] unsalted butter, at room temperature; 1 tsp fresh lemon juice (use the lemon you zested!)

Preparation info

2 dozen
rolls

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Southern Grit

By Kelsey Barnard Clark

Published 2021

About

My mom is a master of traditions—most of which revolve around food. When we were growing up, our holiday meals were as sacred to her as our suppertime blessings. What I know of them now is part generations-old tradition and part modern ingenuity—the mark of a strong and smart Southern woman.

On Christmas Eve, my cousins would come to town and we’d start right in on the prep for Christmas morning. Our favorite part was helping our moms with the cinnamon roll dough. It was magic that

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Americas
United States
Supper
Bread
South America
Vegetarian
Christmas

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