Gooey Cinnamon Rolls - Take Two

Gooey Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Icing (Hungry Girl 200 under 200, Pg. 36, 126 calories, 3 weight watchers points, recipe makes 8 servings) - Diana and I tried this recipe on our last Hungry Girl night and we just couldn't get it to work out.  According to the recipe directions, you are supposed to roll out the crescent roll dough.  Crescent roll dough is elastic so you could roll it out and then it would just bounce back to the original form.  We tried so hard to get it to work but we couldn't.  Then we put the rolls on a cookie sheet and during the baking process, they fell apart and most of the cinnamon mix fell out.

So I decided to try this recipe again.  This time, I decided to roll the cinnamon rolls like crescent rolls.  I wasn't going to waste my time trying to roll out an elastic dough.  Once I rolled them into crescent form, I put them into a muffin pan sprayed with non-stick spray.  I figured in the muffin pan they would hold shape and keep the cinnamon mixture inside the roll.  This worked perfectly.  The rolls maintained their shape, kept all of the cinnamon mixture and they tasted great.  I put the cream cheese mixture in the fridge while the rolls were baking so it would be nice and cool on the fresh cinnamon rolls.  I do recommend eating the rolls while they are still warm if you are looking for that Cinnabun taste.

By rolling the dough crecent shaped and using a muffin pan, all past issues have been corrected.  Now I can highly recommend this recipe

Easy Burrito night

Dishes used: 8 dishes
Matthew annoyance factor: Very Low
Fire Alarm count: Zero
Baby injuries: Zero

It's been a while since our last Hungry Girl Night.  We have both have had a lot going on in our lives so tonight we decided to get together and make it an easy recipe night.

Since we loved the Holy Moly Guacamole so much, we decided to repeat the recipe.  I would have to say that this is one of our favorites.  I know I have made it several times on my own and I have even brought to social occasions.  Everyone always comments on how great it is.

7 Layer Burrito Blitz: (Hungry Girl original cookbook, Page 116, 277 calories)  This recipe was so easy.  We bought the ingredients, warmed up the soy crumbles, beans & tortilla then put it all together.  However we didn't listen to the directions on how to roll the burrito, we did it the way we always do--tuck in the bottom then the side and roll.  This is a good size burrito.   We all enjoyed it and we would highly recommend this to anyone who craves a 7 layer bean dip.  We even got Matt to eat it.

Gooey Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Icing: (Hungry Girl 200 under 200, Page 36, 126 calories)  This was an OK recipe.  It doesn't taste like a Cinnabon by any means but it is an acceptable dessert.  This is a recipe that we definitely want to try again but we want to do it our way.  We followed Lisa's instructions but using a rolling pin on Pillsbury Crescent Rolls was a waste of time.  They are extremely elastic and every time we would roll it, it would slide back into the original shape.  It did give us the giggles trying to get it to roll out to her specifications but it never stayed. So we followed the rest of the directions but midway through the baking process, the cinnamon filling seeped out the bottom and some completely unrolled.  We thought we could try this two different ways.  One would be to use a muffin pan so they don't unroll.  The other way would be to keep the crescent rolls in their perforated state, spread on the filling and spray butter then roll it like a regular crescent roll.  We care more about the taste them how it looks.  We'll let you know how they turn out when we try this recipe again.

Overall, it was the easy, tasty food night we were striving for after the last few stressful weeks we have endured.