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