Maddie's Cinnamon Rolls

Maddie has started cooking.  She's been begging for the last couple of years to help and learn how to do things on her own, so in the last year I have been showing her some simple things.  She can make mac and cheese, and alot of other pretty simple meals.  It's been great, especially like this last week when Kenny and I both had the flu at the same time.  Maddie took over and made the kids their meals.
Well, this morning she asked to make pancakes and I said sure (she's made those before).  I was still asleep when she got up, so she started to do things by herself.  She said that she couldn't find any pancake mix (my kids all have their father's skills of searching for things- if they were looking for shoes they would look up at the ceiling while searching!)  the mix was out in the food storage in the garage.  So, since she couldn't find any she pulled out a recipe book to find a recipe.  Well, while she was looking for the recipe she came across a recipe for cinnamon rolls- her favorite!  She decided to make those instead:)
Now, I have to give her props here, because even I have never wanted to attempt to make homemade cinnamon rolls.  Normally I used pre-made dough.
But, Maddie decided to take this on, and once I woke up and realized this, I figured I'd just let her do this on her own.  I decided that she needed to either succeed at this and see what she was capable of, or crash and burn and learn a lesson in baking:)  I was leaning toward the second because I know Maddie and I had a feeling that she hadn't read through the recipe or understood the gravity of it:)!
So, I sat and watched and helped a little here and there if she had a question.  Her first issue was when she asked what mixing it in a medium sauce pan meant.  She had mixed the liquids in a bowl instead of mixing them and heating them in a pan.  So I helped her fix that problem.
Finally when she mixed it all together she said, "Umm...it doesn't look right mom."
I came over and looked into a bowl to find a brownish hard dough stuck in my mixer.  I looked closely and smelled it and asked, "how much yeast did you put in this?"
"2 cups."
It took awhile to take this in.  "What- did you just say 2 cups?"
"Ya, they said to add 2 cups.  See, right here... it says, 'Add two cups of the flour and the yeast'."
As I tried hard to not laugh I told her, "They meant two cups of the 4 that the recipe calls for and THEN the yeast, which only called for 2 teaspoons."
Maddie looked closely at the recipe and said, "Oh.  Oops."
I felt so bad for her.  I had to explain how it was easy to misunderstand if your not use to reading recipes.
I told her that she could clean up her mess and start over again, and she decided to do that.  I'm hoping that the next batch goes a little better.  I figure if she loves to cook I don't want to discourage that:)
Still- 2 cups of yeast- how hilarious is that!!!!