Ultimate Cinnamon Buns

If Cook's Country has any kind of "ultimate" recipe, then you can be assured you need to look no further.  It's my very favorite cooking magazine, and where I got this recipe from (the only thing I changed was the amount of brown sugar in the filling--they called for one-and-a-half cups of brown sugar, but that was too sweet for me, so I cut it back to one.  Ever health-conscious, that's me).

I wanted to remember to take pictures of these as I made them, and I did a pretty good job at getting the dough and filling, and the rolled up buns before they started to rise . . .

But after they came out of the oven, all thoughts of photography fled . . . I just started eating.  My kids and I were mostly done with our first buns when I remembered that I should have taken a picture.  So I took this picture.  I suppose a forensic investigator could learn something about my occlusion by studying the bites I'd already taken . . .

And then I went back to the pan and took this picture.  It's missing a few buns . . .

I hope you enjoy this recipe.  I sure do.