Cinnamon Rolls (Rolling Upwards)

This week’s baking class which has been extended homework since in the Philippines, Holy Week is usually a no school week and people just spend time in their homes relaxing in vacation and all that stuff. Also because baking class is like running out of time and we have two weeks before the school year ends and maybe a few weeks before the baking business comes out of the experiment phrase and actually becomes an official business but its still considered a side hustle for me. Since I don’t want to rely on baking once a week for business or almost every two weeks for income maybe it’ll become a thing for a while or maybe it’ll become a long time thing. I’ll still be unsure how long the business will last.

Well before the exam week at school there’s still one last thing to bake but it’s free to choose what you want but be sure to submit it in time and after that I would’ve completed a baking course that gives me credit for whatever reason I need to. I’m guessing it’ll be baking for a grade 11-12 course for what I need. But other than that this blog will still be here for archive purposes and all. And then a new chapter begins and this will be old. But before I say goodbye to baking class and this chapter of the blog post.

With the second to the last thing I’ll be baking is cinnamon rolls the teacher told us about how the baking exams will be is to bake three different recipes or to make variations of certain recipes so stay tuned on a baking blog on me making tarts. Then afterwards is another journey of baking and that’s that. Teacher decided to open up by talking about baking with flour and talking about gluten in itself since baking without gluten is almost impossible. Also talking about what flour is and how it works in baking because that is something he hasn’t talked with us. Afterwards he simply decided to show a video of himself making cinnamon rolls because that’s what he usually do on Thursdays and probably once Holy Week has finished. I’ll be baking instead, for the exams and studying for exams instead.

Then I baked last Friday since I mostly bake weekly so I gathered all the ingredients that I need then I poured all the ingredients in the bowl and then stirred it afterwards I put things in the mixer and got them mixed then waited till the dough hardens but the dough didn’t harden after a while (even if there’s yeast) so I decided to put an additional cup of flour. The dough didn’t harden because I put in the filling with the yeast, and the recipe made me separate the filling and the yeast. But I thought pulling them together would make them look yummier so I just put everything in and then dumped an additional cup of flour. I put it in the mixer again and then it hardened.

After putting it in the mixer I took the dough out and started rolling the dough since the dough needs to be rolled before cutting it. After rolling it with a rolling pin I rolled the dough with my hands into a spiral. Then with A dough cutter I cut the dough so that it could be cut efficiently and so my hands won’t get messy and to not use a knife when cutting dough. After cutting the dough for several rolls of Cinnamon I baked them for like 15 mins and I pulled them out of the oven I continued baking a second batch despite the complaints of my dad. I just continued working on the Cinnamon rolls like that till like 9:00 pm my dad also put parchment paper on the tray of Cinnamon Rolls so that the tray won’t get any flour on it, after I’m done baking since its super tiring I just ate dinner and showered then just went up to my room.

The Cinnamon Rolls like tasted better with filling than I expected tasted sweet with all the sugar and it was soft and it wasn’t too sweet since I think Cinnamon could be bad in itself not too bad for turning a spicy thing into something sweet just combining a whole new slew of flavors helped for me. I think it tasting sweet and having the filling in the bread make things taste better and I already knew it which isn’t a better and all.

The next day, the teacher recommended so badly I put all the ingredients for the icing into a bowl since I didn’t have time to make any icing the previous day, I still had class in the morning for that day so I did it after class and put icing on the cinnamon rolls then I sold the cinnamon rolls by the time the afternoon came since nobody’s probably going to buy cinnamon rolls in the morning. My dad bought a pack of them for breakfast and so that he could give away the baked goods and all it wasn’t terribly a problem for me. I’m fine as long as I have cash in store for something that’s totally fine with me.

The following week since Holy Week is treated like a holiday in the Philippines like a no school day and a day of work and all that. There’s obviously no baking class but I probably won’t be able to bake that week either since I’ll be on vacation and out of town on a yearly holiday trip. The week after Holy Week I’ll probably just bake a random set of tarts in the hope that everything will turn out fine for the baking performance exam and stuff like that. I wouldn’t really have issues like that and all but I think this would be a nice way to end the baking class which talks on trying out everything I learned in baking and at least to walk out knowing the baking fundamentals.

Which is all for this week’s blog post.