"cinnamon rolls" news and stories

• The Parisian macaron is quite the ecumenical treat -- ideal for Easter and Passover. (But can it replace Peeps?)
• Speaking of all fine French things, Bastide has gone casual -- and it's "simply a joy."
• Asparagus, harbinger of spring, embodies the first principle of cooking: "When you have great ingredients, you don't have to do much to make a great dish."
• Here's a recipe for something you didn't know you wanted: zucchini tea cake.
• Looking for a more traditional sweet treat? Look what the Easter bunny brought: cinnamon rolls.

The wafting smell of breakfast pastries baking in the oven is one of life's simplest pleasures – especially if that heavenly aroma is cinnamon-scented.

But why limit decadently gooey cinnamon rolls to the morning? The blog frites & fries offers up a solution -- all the flavors of a soft, chewy cinnamon roll infused into a cupcake.

The batter is a revised version of a butter cake recipe from Gourmet -- with the addition of cinnamon and golden brown sugar. After the cupcakes are baked, each is topped with a small dab of cream cheese frosting and a bite-sized chunk of cinnamon roll (sprinkles are so passé).

And if you want to eat these traditionally dessert-time treats for breakfast, we won't judge.

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I call cinnamon "America's favorite spice." Not only can you find it in millions of recipes and products, but I have never met anyone who doesn't like it.

Many people know that cinnamon comes from the bark of a tree, but there are actually two types of cinnamon in this country. The one originating in Ceylon (that's Sri Lanka now) is known as "true" cinnamon and is still used and cultivated in Mexico.

Ceylon cinnamon has a mellow, earthy aroma and sweeter taste than the other variety, which comes from Indonesia and is called "cassia." Ceylon cinnamon happens to be softer in texture -- making it easier to grind. It can even be crumbled between your fingertips.

A pristine cinnamon roll free from foreign objects. Photo: Getty Images

The latest grotty food disaster story comes from Boise, Idaho, where mother-of-three Lisa Burrows says she found a used Band-Aid in her Albertsons sweet roll.

"I found a Band-Aid in about the third piece of mine," Burrows told KBCI-TV in Boise. "A used Band-Aid."

And if that wasn't bad enough, her kids had already consumed their rolls.

One of the things I love about the internet is its ability to share the amazing things that people do with food on a far wide scale than might otherwise be possible. Take this bacon cinnamon roll, for example. Without the internet, how would I have learned that such a thing was possible? However, thanks to a digital camera and a simple web page, I'm able to appreciate the creativity of the folks over at Super Sized Meals and drool ever so slightly over the treat that they concocted. Delicious!

Updated to add: It appears we credited the wrong folks with the creation of the bacon cinnamon rolls. It belongs to the folks at Bacon Today (that link will take you to the original post).

[via BuzzFeed]

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