When it's 106 degrees outside...BAKE!!

That's what I did. A few days ago I made brioche dough. I made a loaf of the brioche, a slightly sweet French breakfast bread. It was very light, but I was a little disappointed. I thought it would be sweeter. So now I have enough dough in the refrigerator for 3 more loaves of brioche. So what to do. Ah, bake sweet bread. When you bake you must make sure you have good equipment. Make sure your oven temperature is accurate. You can pick up an inexpensive oven thermometer at Target. Then make sure you have a timer that can be heard well through out the house.

Mine is fantastic, and looks like this.

When the timer goes off Madie comes running to find me yelling,

"Grandma, Grandma, it went beep".

She even hears the beep when she is in the other end of the house.

Nothing gets over baked in this house.

So what did I make with my brioche dough? Let's take a look.

Cinnamon Raisin Bread!! Ron loves Cinnamon Raisin bread.

I better make sure to save him some.

Caramel Apple Rolls. Filled with home made dulce de leche, apples and pecans.

Glazed with a caramel powder sugar glaze.

Still more dough to use. So I tried my hand at doughnuts.

Because brioche is a light dough, they turned out pretty good.

They got Zach and Madie approval.

Ashley thought they needed chocolate ganache icing.

Since I was in a baking mood today, and not every thing should be sweet, I made rolls to go with dinner tonight. These are just the frozen roll dough in a cast iron skillet. After they raise, brush with butter and sprinkle diced fresh rosemary. Brush again with butter to cover the rosemary and add a light sprinkle of sea salt. Bake for 20 minutes. When you take them out of the oven one more brush with butter. Was I just adopted by Paula Deen?