To Die for Cinnamon Buns

These buns are very good and not overly sweet. Baking these buns in muffin cups makes them rise beautifully and look uniform.

• Ready In: 4 hrs
• Serves: 12
• Yields: 12 muffins

Ingredients

• 1  cup milk
• 1  egg
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 3⁄8 cup  potato flakes
• 2  tablespoons butter
• 2  tablespoons sugar
• 3 1⁄4 cups bread flour
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons bread machine yeast
• 1⁄4 cup brown sugar
• 1 1⁄2 tablespoons cinnamon
• 1⁄4 cup butter
• 1⁄2 cup pecans
• 4  tablespoons butter
• 2⁄3 cup brown sugar
• 1⁄3 cup butter
• 2⁄3 cup corn syrup
• 1 (3 ounce) package Philadelphia Cream Cheese
• 1⁄4 cup butter
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 2  cups icing sugar
• 2  tablespoons sour cream

Directions

1. Put the first 6 ingredients into the bread-machine, in the order given. Set on dough cycle. At the end of the dough cycle, take dough out of machine and let rest for 10 minutes. Roll dough into roughly a large rectangle.
2. Mix brown sugar, cinnamon and butter together to form a paste. Spread paste on dough, leaving 1/8 away from sides of dough.
3. Sprinkle with nuts, if wanted. Push nuts slightly into dough. Roll dough into a jelly-roll shape. Dough should be very thin. Then prepare the sticky filling. Boil the brown sugar, butter and corn syrup. Separate the filling evenly between 12 muffin cups, then slice the cinnamon rolls, and place one in each tin, face down. Let the cinnamon buns sit and rise for 35-40 minutes, in a warm place.
4. For the frosting, cream the cream cheese, and butter together until light and fluffy, with no lumps. Add sugar, then the vanilla. If mixture gets too stiff, add sufficient sour cream, a tbsp at a time till the right consistency, Not too thick and not too runny.