A little chocolate and caramel, anyone?

Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him! ---Psalm 34:8

Sunday morning cinnamon rolls are a tradition in our house. Sometimes it's Pillsbury, sometimes we may add a little chocolate chips to our rolls, sometimes we use Pioneer Woman's recipe, and sometimes we improvise.

And sometimes that's good.

As in really, really good.

Imagine my surprise as I'm mixing up a giant batch of cinnamon rolls (and a bonus batch of Parker House rolls...just wait until next week, folks!) I carefully measured to make sure I had all of the ingredients. Hours of mixing, rising, rolling, cutting and baking....only to discover I did not have enough milk for the icing!

Oh calamity!

Right?

Wrong?

Chocolate saved me.

As in Hershey's chocolate-caramel coffee creamer.










Seriously, be still my heart. I substituted this for the milk in my icing recipe. And substituted vanilla for the maple extract.









Just one word describes it: heavenly.

I took 3 warm pans to 3 neighbors. They now fall at my feet when they see me. They love me.

The one little boy (a second grader) unabashedly hugs me in front of all his friends at school whenever he sees me. He tells them all I make the very best cinnamon rolls. Ever. Amen.

Here's the printable recipe for the rolls and the icing (just click).

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