Recipe #8 - Overnight Caramel Sticky Buns

A typical breakfast at my house is cold cereal for the kids and oatmeal and a protein shake for me.  It is a rare day that I "make" anything else.  The reason for this is simple; I like to sleep in until I absolutely have to wake up.  Late to bed, late to rise, makes this mommy happy.

With that being said, I love yummy breakfast food.  I just don't like getting up early to prepare it.  Because of this, we have breakfast for dinner more than most people I think.

But last night, I prepped a crazy-easy recipe so that my kids would have a warm, unhealthy breakfast -- Overnight Caramel Sticky Buns.  It is found on page 59 of the cookbook and doesn't appear to be online.

You start with frozen Rhodes rolls in a bundt pan.  P.S.  My Target no longer carries frozen dough.  What in the world were they thinking?!  This is Utah, the capital of frozen dough.  When you use Rhodes, people think you made homemade rolls; after all they did come out of your oven...

 

Then you just sprinkle a box of pudding, brown sugar and cinnamon on top.  You don't even have to mix it first.  The pecans are optional, and I opted out.

Then you drizzle melted butter over the top.

That is all the prep work.  No mixing.  The only dirty dish is the one with the sticky buns in it.  Easy!  Took less than 10 minutes and that was with me triple reading the recipe and taking pictures.

Then you just cover it with a clean dish towel and let it rise overnight.  In the morning, I found that my steroids butter (see this post) and the warm Utah weather created Bodybuilder Rolls: Sticky Buns on Steriods.  Wowsers!

My husband was gone until after midnight last night, so he didn't see me prep this recipe.  So this morning (since he was awake before me -- surprise!) he lifted the towel to find this massive thing.  Well he thought it was already cooked since it was so big.  He thought I had made a cheddar loaf with sausage crumbles and was a little nervous to eat it. (Sort of looks like that if you don't know what's in it, huh?)

Well I was shocked at how big it was.  Sara and Kate, is this normally the size?  Into the oven it went, and luckily it didn't continue to rise.

 

Then you let it sit for a couple of minutes and invert it onto a plate.  This is when the magic happens and the delicious caramel goodness coats everything. 

Now that, my friends, is better than cold cereal!  And do you really think that my kids didn't like it?  Not the case.

You'll notice that we're eating on paper plates with plastic forks.  Miss Molly, the 5 year old, was in charge of setting the table.  She said that she could reach the paper/plastic stuff easier, so that's what she used.  At least she's resourceful...

I think that I need to start logging my elliptical/running hours for you too.  This blog is not good for my waistline.  The more I cook, the more I run.  Took the leftovers to a neighbor so I would stay out of them.  Oy.