Week 14: Cocoa and Cinnamon Rolls

Welcome back friends. Last week I dedicated my recipe to my grandma Tankersley. This week I am dedicating the recipe to my grandma Hogg and my mom Linda. I was searching for a recipe to make this week and just couldn't find that perfect one. A good friend said she had enjoyed the recipes that I shared from childhood because it made her think about that special time in her life too. The first thing that came to my mind was the cocoa and cinnamon rolls my mom use to make when I was little. So I called and ask her if she would share the recipe with me and tell me a little bit about how she came to make it with her mom (my grandma). This is what she wrote:
Hi Angie A long time ago when I was at home we always just made a
biscuit recipe out of plain flour and rolled it out and put either cinnamon or
cocoa and butter and we rolled the dough out like pie crust and cut it so we
had the cinnamon rolls in a long roll kinda like a breakfast burrito. I think
then later i used to make up that yeast biscuit recipe and it worked good. If you make the rolls in this
shape it holds the cocoa in the roll better. I used to make them when we made
cards long ago and Bob Tankersley loved them. When i make cinnamon rolls now i use
the roll recipe that i always make for holidays. But the old one is good
and the way mom always made them when i was a kid. She taught me to make them
when i was about nine years old and Rosey and i always made them and then we
would play either cards, jacks, or dominoes til wee hrs in the morning. We
didn't have t.v. back then. Love Mom
I made them both ways. The yeast biscuit dough can be kept in the refrigerator several days and you can take as much out as you like and either make biscuits or make these yummy sweet rolls. You can also use just about any homemade biscuit dough. Just roll it out like a pie crust, spread a lot of soft butter over the entire thing, sprinkle it with either cocoa or cinnamon and then sugar. Cut it into 3 or 4 inch squares. Roll it up and place in a greased pan and bake them about 15 minutes at 400 degrees. We didn't play the games tonight. Modern technology you know, but I really do believe I am going to try to set aside one night a month to make these and have the family play cards or a board game. Hope you and your family enjoy this recipe. I'm so thankful and blessed to have a mom and two grandmothers that loved to cook. If you have favorite foods your mom or grandmother made try to find the recipe if you don't have it and work on making it. It's good for the soul. Until next week, God Bless!