Cinnamon Sticky Buns

I got a new cookbook for Christmas called The Pioneer Woman Cooks.  I follow the author, Ree Drummond,  through her blog and she's so normal and down to earth. You can check out her blog here: thepioneerwoman.com She's been on a book tour for the past couple months and did some stops this week.  I watched her on Fox and Friends where she made her cinnamon rolls.  She is famous for them in the south and they look SOOO good.  I really wanted to make them from the recipe in my cookbook, but I didn't have all of the ingredients.  (When you live with someone with Celiac disease, you don't keep a large volume of flour on hand).  So, I looked around and realized I did have the ingredients for a similar recipe from The Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten.

 

Ina Garten is definitely NOT Ree Drummond.  I really can't relate to Ina.  She's a little too hoity-toity for my taste, but she does have great recipes and I have made quite a few out of this cookbook.  She's full of good tips, too.

These are all of the ingredients needed.  I accidently hid the brown sugar behind the pecans, so 5 ingedients--that's it.

I mixed butter and brown sugar together with a mixer and placed equal parts in the bottom of a muffin pan.

Unfolded the puff pastry and brushed it with butter.

Covered the pastry with brown sugar, cinnamon and more pecans.  The recipe calls for raisins, but I'm not a fan, so I decided to change and add more nuts.

Rolled it all up....

...and cut into 6 equal pieces.  Then repeated with the other sheet of pastry to end up with 12 rolls.

400 degrees for 30 minutes and then......

I let them cool for 5 minutes in the pan.

Then turned them out.

BLISS.....

Seriously.....they are so good when they are warm, right out of the oven--it's ridiculous.

I think I may go throw one in the microwave right now.....

P.S.  BIG Thank you to my husband who helped me with my photos or I may be still sitting at the computer when Geren graduated high school.