Chocolate Sweet Rolls

My friend Ashleigh and I had been talking about this recipe on the pioneer woman's website. It was these gooey yummy melt in your mouth sweet rolls. Ashleigh and I share a passion for deserts. I thought it would be fun to make them for her and give them to her at her bridal shower this weekend. Well, lets just say I am not a pioneer woman yet!!!

This was my goal. The Pioneer Woman's Chocolate Cookie Sweet Rolls

My first attempt =Fail.

My first attempt failed. I was trying to make my log of dough with the sugar, nuts, chocolate inside, so I could then cut to make the individual rolls. My dough was too sticky, no matter how much flour I added, it wouldn't stay together. I ended up baking a sweet roll log. I figured I could cut it into slices and it would be kinda pretty and still taste good. I was wrong. It was not pretty and did not taste good at all.

I didn't have the time before the bridal shower to think about what I did wrong or how to fix it. Last night I figured out how to attempt to make the second half of the dough I had better. I made sweet puffs. I took my left over dough and put it in muffin tins. I then topped each of them with the yummy goodies - butter, sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, and nuts -  that would have been on the inside of the sweet roll.



Don't mind the well loved muffin tin.



So my second try worked out much better than my first! Not sweet rolls but these Sweet Puffs are tasty!

The baking lessons I learned were the following.

1. Never think you will perfect a recipe the first time you try it

2. when baking breads make sure you have incorporated all the flour and don't have any flour lumps.

3. Don't rush dough when it is rising or resting

Life lessons

1. What would life be like if we could redo events in life?

2. Each of us have strengths and weaknesses that make us unique, our ingredients. Even how those strengths and weaknesses are put together in each of us creates a different final expression.

"So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it ALL to the GLORY of the Lord."

I Corinthians 10:31