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So, after pictures of Charley's cinnamon rolls were displayed people kept asking for the recipe. Charley doesn't work much by exact measurements, but here's the recipe that he typed up for you all this morning!

Charley’s Famous Cinnamon Rolls

Dough                                                                                                Smear

1 cups                   Warm water                                                      1 stick                   Butter

1 Tbs                    Yeast                                                                   1 cup                    Sugar

3 cups                   Flour                                                                   1 tsp                     Cinnamon

1 tsp                      Salt

2 Tbs                    Sugar

2 Tbs                    Oil

2                           Eggs

Start with a large mixing bowl. Add yeast to water, let sit 5 min. In another bowl mix 1 cup of flour and all of the salt and sugar together, and then add that to the water & yeast mixture. Mix. Add oil and eggs. Mix. Add the rest of the flour one cup at a time, mixing after each cup. The amount of flour is approximate. Just add flour, a little at a time, until it starts to look like bread dough. When the dough gets too stiff to mix, turn it out onto a floured counter top. Sprinkle flour on the dough and start kneading it. When the dough starts to get sticky, sprinkle more flour on it. Knead for 5 to 10 min, until the dough is smooth and firm, about the consistency of a very fat baby. Put a little oil in the mixing bowl, spread it around real good and put the dough back in the bowl. Cover it and place in a warm place for about an hour.

Now make the smear: Soften the butter. Mix butter, sugar, and cinnamon well.

When the dough has doubled in size, turn out onto the floured counter top. Sprinkle with flour and roll out into a rectangle. It should be about 18 in. long by 6 in. wide. There is no need to measure it, it doesn’t really matter. Spread the butter mixture over all the dough. Roll the dough into a long thin tube. Make sure the butter mixture is on the inside of the tube. Cut the tube into one inch sections. Place the rolls on a lightly greased baking pan, cover and put in a warm place. Preheat oven to 350* F. After the rolls have doubled in size, about ½ hour, place in oven. Bake for 15 to 20 min until the edges start to turn golden brown. Once they have cooled a little you can put icing on top, if you like, though I never do. Icing is just powdered sugar and a little water, with a little flavoring of your choice. Mix the water into the sugar very slowly, a little at a time, until the sugar turn into a thick liquid. Add the flavoring and drizzle on top of the cinnamon rolls.