one month into my gender studies class and i’ve realized the following: i sort of find the “women’s protein” powder i bought a few weeks ago hilariously sexist, and i’m an inherently domestic lady.
which probably stems from the fact that nothing excites me more than “NEW CANDLE FROM TJ MAXX DAY!”, one of my new favorite holidays that i’ve recently been celebrating. it almost rivals my love of my favorite month, february, which i’ve come to call “BAKE EVERYTHING IN A HEART-SHAPED PAN MONTH!”
things baked in a heart-shaped pan thus far? cornbread x2 , guinness cake, two-layer carrot cake, and….these orange-glazed cinnamon rolls. or what i called them during the four hour baking process, “those bad boys”.
i zested (and giggled).
i pretended this recipe was entirely my own. ahem. putting two recipes together counts as a new one, right?
i put dough on top of my radiator for it to rise for two hours because my apartment has the tendency to be a drafty siberian tundra.
i cursed the rising dough for the two-hours of rising time. and put on my bear slippers to combat the tundra.
i giggled more when i made a ginger dough man. i think it helps the dough rise or something.
oh yeah, and maybe telling you the recipe would help:
{i adapted from this one for the dough and this one for the filling. i just added orange juice to the first recipe’s glaze.}
1.mix the dough. let it rise, as you silently weep over how easy it was to use bakers yeast for the first time. around two hours, or so.
2. knead again. weep again. rise again.
3.after you’ve kneaded your ginger dough head and made it talk like sloth from the goonies for 15 minutes, and chased after your roommates with it, it’s time to fill and bake those aforementioned bad boys.
slove love chunk. mackenzie love orange-glazed cinnamon rolls. it’s a similar kind of love, hence the heart-shaped pan.
last step is obviously to insert your face into one of these bad boys. and bask in the glory under the glow of your newest tj-maxx candle.
and spend your sugar high imagining j-schwartz is praising your baking prowess.
and that totally original cinnamon roll recipe that you totally made up yourself. or something.
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I love when you talk gender studies on here. It’s one of those things I think should be required for everyone, and am so thankful that I’m getting exposed to some great feminist theorists in grad school.
Have you read Radical Homemakers? I know you have book recs up the wazoo, but it is so SO good. It addresses so many important things…independence, domesticity, “fighting the power” on so many levels.
And of course, the rolls look delish.
Um, guinness cake? Tell me more.
These cinnamon rolls look amazing – nothing better than sitting down with homemade baked goods – especially when you have to wait for them to rise multiple times!
And I totally agree with that other brilliant commenter – Radical Homemakers is a must-read!