About the time we finished opening the gifts (my grandmother ALWAYS being the last because she got distracted watching others open their gifts) the house would have filled with a delicious scent of cinnamon and our Christmas breakfast of freshly baked cinnamon buns would come out of the oven. A generational battle would be waged every year with my uncle and father arguing for raisins and me and my cousins staunchly anti-raisin. Since we had cuteness and youth on our side we won most years, and we'd gleefully inhale our sticky buns - still warm from the oven and oh so ooey gooey good.
I don't have an oven of my own, so I can't make my own cinny buns this year. I had to cheat and buy a Starbucks cinnamon roll. I enjoyed it with my morning coffee, however, as I opened gifts sent by friends and family.
(photograph from the Starbucks Japan website)
even though it's not homemade, the cinnamon rolls at starbucks are delicious! the kids and i shared one today. :D
ReplyDeletePerhaps the one I got was just old (I did buy it on Christmas Eve), but I wasn't terribly impressed. I think I'll stick to the chocolate scones - that I have a terrible addiction to...
ReplyDeleteToo bad about the Starbucks cinnamon roll. I haven't had a cinnamon bun in years! Lorenz likes something that looks like a cinnamon bun, but instead of cinnamon, the paste is nutty, and the bun is called Nussschneke, something he only gets to enjoy in Switzerland... C
ReplyDeleteC - maybe you could try making them for him sometime? I'm sure there is a recipe somewhere, or you could use a basic cinny bun recipe and just improvise with the nutty filling. mmmm...
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