Friday, February 29, 2008

Who loves cinnamon buns? I sure do. I also love making them because I enjoy watching them dissappear. My family and friends absolutely love them!
This is my mother in laws recipe. She usually makes a glaze with icing sugar and milk to put on them while they are still hot.

Dora's Cinnamon Buns

3 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup milk
3/4 cup butter
5 tsp. baking powder
pinch of salt
cinnamon and sugar mixed 1:2 or 1:3 depending on your taste

Sift dry ingredients together in a large bowl, and blend in butter using a pastry blender, until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
Beat egg in a seperate bowl, and add milk. add wet ingredients to moist and mix just until all dry ingredients are moistened. Stirring too much will cause dough to toughen.

Split dough into 2 balls, and roll out each ball, one at a time, on a lightly floured surface. I like to roll betwen two layers of parchment paper.
Butter the surface of the rolled dough, the same as you would butter a slice of bread, and sprinkle on cinnamon and sugar mixture, generously.
Roll the dough and place seam on the bottom. Then slice into 1/4 inch- 1/2 inch thick slices.
Bake at 35o degrees, for approx 15 minutes, or until lightly browned.
Remove from baking sheet after cooling for 1-2 minutes and then drizzle icing sugar glaze over them if desired.( Icing sugar glaze is made by adding small amounts of milk to 1 cup of icing sugar until you have a mixture that will pour slowly from a spoon.)

Usually these will only last a few hours, if I am lucky.
I hope you and yours will enjoy as much as we do!









3 comments:

Unknown said...

I was wanting cinnamon buns yesterday, but I had no brown sugar. Picked some up and was planning on making some this morning. I think I will use your recipe :-)

Unknown said...

YUM YUM .. send me some !! :-)

Tammy said...

send me your address, and you never know.. one of those days you might get a surprise!!