Everyone borrows recipes, trying their hand at something that someone else has created and honed to perfection. This recipe comes from my favourite cooking site smittenkitchen.com. I recommend this to anyone who loves cooking or food porn – seriously the pictures are phenomenal. Cooking chocolate babka was something that always intrigued me after eating this at Max Brenner (a perfect little chocolate shop in Sydney) and when Deb put a recipe for it on her site, I was game and it was worth every bit of trouble.

Warning – This will create a chocolate overload!

Go ahead … indulge your sweet tooth. It’s not really a sin. It just sort of feels that way. I was looking around for some frostings that I could put on a fresh batch of cinnamon rolls, and I found this cream cheese recipe that supposedly is the recipe that Cinnabon uses for their famous rolls. So I whipped it up really quick, spread it on the rolls, taste-tested one or two of them, and give the frosting two thumbs … way up!

Always good for a breakfast treat, or a quick brunch-type thing … hell … anytime really; these rolls will be sure to tantilize your taste buds and make you forget all about those 12 pounds you’re trying to loose. I mean, really; what’s the point of eating if you can’t enjoy it every now and then, right?

My own personal touch is to add a little bit too much brown sugar and a little too much cinnamon to the mix for that extra sweet taste that I’ve grown up with.

For topping ideas:
> cream cheese frosting