Cinnamon Rolls

Ever since I have known Gretchen she has always baked bread, rolls, anything that requires yeast. I have always found this odd because I have never EVER used yeast. In fact, one year Bill is the one who received a bread maker and I got the gas grill. Gretchen has bread rising on her counter and says "What do you want to make with this?" WE can have booty rolls, bread or cinnamon rolls?" I am shocked, almost stunned. "What?, you can make all that out of the same bread??"
CINNAMON ROLLS!!! fo sho!

She makes the whole thing rolls it out, butter, cinnamon sugar and VOILA!! we have cinnamon rolls. Yeah, I am not too impressed yet! I wanna TASTE it!
OH my goodness, these things are sooooo goood!!! They went like crazy. They were gone. ::sniff sniff:: It isn't impressive that there wasn't anything left of them because with our crew we put down the groceries and it could be mediocre and the food would still be gone. These cinnamon rolls were gone in like 10 seconds flat!

Gretchen had me make up another batch from scratch. I have never done this before. The pressure is on and I felt my pits starting to spew. I mean, YEAST is not my friend! I didn't even know what yeast really looked like. I saw it once at the house when Bill would make bread. I SWEAR!! SWEAR!! one time he asked me to check and see if the yeast was still active. He asked me to see if it was moving.

So, when Gretchen had me open the jar of yeast, I looked inside and said, Do you see it wiggling?" Both of our heads look down into the jar and look for any movement. Then she says, "WHAT?, I have never seen yeast wiggle." I didn't see it move either. Maybe, that was the problem with my breads. My yeast was moving! roflrofl, she never laughed so hard and me either. I still feel like a complete idiot!!!

Here is the recipe:

Cinnamon Rolls

1 2/3 cup warm milk
4 1/2 tsp. yeast
4 1/2 to 5 cups bread flour
2 eggs
1 stick butter
2 1/2 teaspoons salt
4 teaspoons sugar

Pour into mixer with bread hook and beat for 15 minutes.
Take out of mixing bowl. Spray another bowl with pam and put dough into
mixing bowl. Lightly cover bowl with plate or towel.
Rise for one hour.

Punch down dough and shape as desire.
for cinnamon rolls, roll out bread on counter, spread soften butter over the top, sprinkle cinnamon and sugar mixture on top. Roll and cut with thread or floss. Place in baking dish and bake 20 minutes at 350 degrees. Keep an eye on them.