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Norwegian Cinnamon Rolls aka Buns

Ally

You don’t need bad weather to be able to enjoy these beauties. If your in Bangalore then the unpredictable weather just makes it even better to be able to have these buns with your chai. The best part of this Nigella Lawson recipe is that it hardly requires any time to prove and you can practically multitask and get this batch of buns done in no time.

INGREDIENTS:

For the dough:

  • Flour – 600grams
  • Sugar – 100grams
  • Salt – ½ teaspoon
  • Yeast – 21 grams
  • Butter – 100 grams
  • Milk – 400ml
  • Eggs – 2

For the filling

  • Unsalted butter – 150 grams softened
  • Sugar – 150 grams
  • Cinnamon – 1 ½ teaspoons
  • Egg – 1 beaten, to glace

Steps to make the dough:

Preheat the oven to 230C. Combine the flour, sugar, salt and yeast to a large mixing bowl. Melt the butter and whisk it into the milk and eggs, then stir it into the flour mixture. Mix to combine and then knead the dough either by hand or using the dough hook of your machine until smooth and springy in texture. Form into a ball, place in an oiled bowl, cover with clingfilm and leave to rise for about 25 minutes. Take one third of the dough and roll it out and stretch it to fit your tin. Roll out the rest of the dough onto a lightly floured surface aiming to get a rectangle of roughly 50 X 25 cm.

Mix the filling ingredients in a small bowl and then spread the rectangle with the buttery cinnamon mixture. Try to get even coverage on the whole of the dough. Roll it up from the longest side until you have a giant sausage. Cut the roll into 2 cm slices which should make about 20 rounds. Sit the rounds in lines on top of the dough in the tin, swirly cut side up. Don’t worry if they don’t snuggly fit together as they will swell and become puffy when they prove. Brush them with egg and then let them rise again for about 15 minutes to let them get puffy. Put them in the oven and cook for about 20-25 minutes by which time the buns will have risen and be golden brown in color. If not bake for an additional 10 minutes. Serve warm plain buns or better with some lemon cream cheese frosting drizzled.