Unbelievable Cinnamon Rolls

                       

Makes 24 cinnamon rolls

Ingredients

2 C scalded milk

½ C shortening

½ C warm water

 2 pkg yeast

2 slightly beaten eggs

1 C sugar

 2 tsp  salt

1 C mashed potatoes

7 C Flour

Icing:

3 oz cream cheese

½ C butter

1 tsp vanilla

2 to 4 C powdered sugar

milk

Directions:

Pour milk over shortening and allow to cool to lukewarm.  Soften yeast in the q/w C warm water.  Add to milk mixture with eggs, sugar, salt, mashed potatoes, and 4 cups of flour.  Beat with mixer until smooth and well blended.  Add enough of the remaining flour to make a soft but still slightly sticky dough.  (Dough should be just about right when it pulls off the edges of the bowl.) Cover and allow to rise until double.  Divide dough in half and roll in rectangle ½ inch thick.  spread with melted butter and sprinkle cinnamon and sugar over all.  Roll up from short end and cut into 1 ½ inch slices with a piece of string.  (Dental floss works great.) Place on a greased cookie sheet and cover.  Let rise until almost doubled. (Rolls will rise in oven as well). Bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees. Ice.

Icing:  Cream the cream cheese and butter together until smooth. Add powdered sugar.  Use milk to thin to desired consistency.  I like it rather thick.  Add vanilla.  Ice the rolls while they are still a bit warm, so the icing will melt into all the crevices.  

Recipe from Brianna Burgess