Description
This is a simple cinnamon recipe that my mom likes to call ‘Helter Skelter.’ She got this from a coworker in Norfolk, NE in 1976. It’s called ‘Helter Skelter’ because you tear two loaves of frozen bread dough and place it ‘helter skelter’ in the baking pan.
Ingredients
- ½ cup chopped walnuts (Optional)
- ½ cup raisins, divided (Optional)
- 2 (1 pound) loaves frozen bread dough, thawed
- ½ cup butter
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 (4.6 ounce) package cook-and-serve vanilla pudding mix
- 2 tablespoons milk
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Grease a 13×9-inch baking dish. Sprinkle walnuts into the bottom of the baking dish. Sprinkle about half the raisins with the walnuts.
- Tear one bread dough loaf into pieces; add to baking dish and top with remaining raisins.
- Melt butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat. Stir brown sugar
- pudding mix
- milk
- and cinnamon with the butter; cook
- stirring frequently
- until the dry ingredients dissolve completely and the mixture thickens into a caramel-like sauce. Drizzle the sauce over the bread in the baking dish.
- Tear remaining dough loaf into pieces and arrange into he pan
- filling any empty spots with dough pieces.
- Let the dough raise for 2 1/2 hours to overnight.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- Bake in preheated oven until no longer doughy in the center
- about 30 minutes. Cool rolls in pan for 15 minutes.
- Turn the rolls out onto a serving platter large enough to contain the sauce that will run off the rolls.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 30 mins
Total Time: 3 hrs 30 mins
Servings: 12