Linda's Giant Cinnamon Roll

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Title: LINDA'S GIANT CINNAMON ROLL
Categories: Breads, Breadmaker
Yield: 1 loaf

1 1/8 c Water
1 tb Sugar
1 ts Salt
1 tb Olive oil
1 tb Honey
3 c Bread flour
2 1/2 ts Yeast

Put ingredients in pan in order given. Set crust
control to light and set machine on regular cycle.
Press start. Keep an eye on the doughball and have the
dough just a little stickier than usual but not so wet
that it doesn't hold its shape. Prepare a bread board
by sprinkling it with a a mixture of cinnamon and
sugar (I used cinnamon maple sprinkle available from
Sam's Club) using about 1/4 cup in all of the cinnamon
mixture. Have on hand 1/4 cup of raisins and (if you
like) 1/4 cup pecans. When the machine reaches the end
of the first rise, remove the bread pan from the
machine and close the lid. Take the dough from the pan
and remove the paddle. (I finish the bread in a Zoji
Finnish pan but removing the blade will get rid of
MOST of the hole!) Roll the dough in the cinnamon
mixture, stretching and elongating it (remember the
snakes you used to make with PlayDoh? This is much the
same!) until its' about 1 1/2 inches thick and quite
long. Keep working the cinnamon mixture into all of
your bread "snake". Now begins the fun part! Spiral
the "snake" back into the bread pan (if you don't have
a spare pan or a Finnish pan you'll need to have
washed your regular pan to remove the bits of dough
that may have clung to the sides) and sprinkle the
nuts & raisins in as you create a spiral loaf of
bread. Tuck the "tail end" back into the bread at the
top or it'll come springing out when the dough starts
baking! This doesn't take as long as you think--the
bread's back into the machine in plenty of time for it
to rise before the bake cycle starts. The result is a
lovely light cinnamon loaf that's great either sliced
or pulled apart to eat. You COULD add a sugar glaze
for a gift loaf but we find its' delicious without a
glaze or even butter. Enjoy!

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