Fast and Easy Sticky Buns

Making your own yeast-raised bread products can be daunting until you find out how easy it really is, however, you can attain a tasty glimpse of what you can do and avoid some of the kitchen trauma! Once you get a feel for working with yeast dough, it might bring you to the 'made from scratch' stage in your baking.

Fast and Easy Sticky Buns
2 loaves of unbaked frozen bread dough, thawed
2 cups brown sugar
Grated zest of one lemon
2 small packages of vanilla pudding
1 stick butter, softened
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon cloves
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

Mix together the pudding mix, sugar, zest, butter, and spices.  Vegetable oil spray an approximately 9x13-inch baking pan.

Tear off chunks of one loaf of the bread dough and place in prepared pan. Sprinkle half the sugar mixture over it. Tear up the second loaf of bread dough and place on top of the first. Sprinkle with the rest of the sugar mixture. Place a sheet of plastic wrap over the top, spray with vegetable oil spray and then flip it over so the greased side is against the dough. Cover the whole thing with a clean dish towel and let rise until almost doubled. Bake for approximately 25-30 minutes in a preheated 350 degree oven.

When the Sticky Buns are baked, turn it upside down immediatel onto a serving plate or cooling rack. Cool, slice, and serve.

Ideas . . .
You can add nuts, dried cranberries, or raisins to the sugar mixture.
Try butterscotch pudding mix.
Drizzle with a thin lemon glaze before it finishes cooling

Enough said!

“Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.” ~St. Augustine

Still looking for homes . . .

 Still looking for homes for the kittens that found us! They are a diverse bunch. The gray one, called Tugboat, is a feisty, all-important chap with attitude in his walk. He does like to have his chin scratched, however. The smaller black kitten is shy but enjoys being fussed over. The larger black kitten is a tough guy who will probably make a good mouser. The mother, Mrs. Black Cat, is very fond of her brood but will soon be letting them alone as the kittens are getting more kibble and making less demands on her.

According to some reliable information, too many kittens at the Humane Society Shelter and any kittens/cats brought in will be immediately put down. We are getting to the end of our ropes here but the thought of turning over these squirming bundles of fur and knowing they will die before the end of the day is too heart breaking.

It is sad that people still abandon their animals and then leave the problems and decisions up to other people.