Birthday Rolls (Caramel Cinnamon Rolls)

If you're like me and don't have time to finish one thing at a time, you'll really appreciate this recipe!!

INGREDIENTS:

• 24 Frozen Rhodes Rolls (dinner rolls)
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 box butterscotch "Cook & Serve" dry pudding mix (NOT instant)
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 stick unsalted butter (not margarine)

DIRECTIONS:

For steps 1 & 2, I use two containers with lids so I can do the prep when I actually have time and then put everything together right before bed in less than 30 seconds:

1.   Mix brown sugar and dry pudding mix with a fork (crush all the brown sugar lumps)
2.   Mix sugar and cinnamon (aka throw a lid on the bowl and shake it....BOOM. done.

Steps 3-8 you do right before going to bed, or about 10pm:

3.   Grease your bundt pan
4.   Put 24 frozen Rhodes Rolls into the greased bundt pan
5.   Sprinkle the brown sugar/dry pudding mixture over frozen rolls, then
6.   Sprinkle the cinnamon/sugar mixture
7.   Melt butter in the microwave, and slowly pour over rolls in bundt pan, trying to cover all of the sugar
8.   Place wax paper over the pan, and a kitchen towel over that. Leave on the counter overnight and when you wake up, the rolls should have risen nicely

The last steps are done in the morning:

9.   Remove the wax paper and towel, and place the bundt pan on a cookie sheet in a preheated oven at 350 degrees F and bake for 30 minutes.
10.  Remove from oven and place a large serving platter on top of the bundt pan. Place the kitchen towel over both the platter and bundt pan, and fold the sides of the towel to secure (make sure no space is showing between pan & platter...the towel will catch any HOT caramel that can FLY IN YOUR FACE slide out from between the pan and platter during the next step)
11.  Holding the pan, platter and towel together, QUICKLY flip over and place on the counter. Use potholders to carefully remove the bundt pan, leaving a perfect display of gooey, delicious caramel cinnamon rolls on your platter!
12.  Using a rubber spatula, spoon the remaining caramel from the bundt pan onto the rolls.

TIP: Don't put candles in the rolls before serving (see picture above). I thought it would be a great idea for my husband's birthday breakfast until the hot rolls melted the candles and I spent the next 15 minutes scraping wax from between each of the rolls.