From The Great Holiday Baking Book (Ojakangas) comes the first cinnamon bun that wasn’t too dry. I’ve had rough times with the rolled up buns, usually too dry or over baked. I did tweak the recipe to refrain from pecans and increased the butter a little, I think that was the ticket for a moist cake-like roll. Those in accredited online culinary colleges would agree that this was the key.
Adapted from Giant Cinnamon-Pecan Rolls by B. Ojakangas
Dough
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/2 tpo salt
- 1 Tbsp yeast
- 1 1/8 cup milk
- 3 Tbsp butter
Filling
- 2 Tbsp butter, softened
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 Tbsp bread crumbs
- 3/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/3 cup raisins
Pre-heat oven to 375ºF. Prepare a baking dish with brown sugar and butter, about 2 Tbsp in small pieces scattered over the sugar.
Warm the milk and melt the butter. Mix the dry ingredients and add the milk and butter. Stir until a ball forms then leave it covered for 10 minutes. Turn out on a floured surface and roll out the dough. Smear with butter. Sprinkle with filling. Roll and cut even size pieces. Snuggle the rolls into the pan and cover to rise until doubled, about 25 minutes. Bake for 25-35 minutes. Test that the center is cooked with a skewer. The texture of this roll is a hybrid of yeast bread and cake, I might of let it rest too long in the initial stage that made it more like cake than bread. But hey, it’s goooood!
Optional icing as shown was from a can, you can leave it off if you like.
This recipe was added to the Sweet As Sugar Cookie link party here!
I love cinnamon and yeasted bread..they go beautifully together
I love cinnamon raisin bread, but the cinnamon in the bread itself can taste metallic to me. A filling tastes better to me 😛
I also have struggled to find the perfect cinnamon roll recipe…but I’m giving this one a trial run! Looks fantastic!
I’m loving the cook book (and others) by Beatrice Ojakangas. Just be careful not to over bake these, but the middle of the pan, if it’s glass, may lag behind the outside rolls. I suggest using a metal cake pan (round or square). I hope you like them 🙂
I was just telling my Sissy Jo in Dallas that we needed to have another baking lesson (I’m the teacher!) when we get together! This looks like a great project! They look so yummy! Oh, and I love the way you used the word, “snuggle”.
Hee hee! snuggle 🙂
This is a great wintertime baking project, the smell of cinnamon warms the soul. It’s chilly in Austin, I imagine more so in Dallas!
Mmm, bigger is better in this case. I have a sweet treat linky party going on at my blog till Monday night and I’d love it if you’d come by and link your buns up. http://sweet-as-sugar-cookies.blogspot.com/2012/01/sweets-for-saturday-54.html
I put my buns up Lisa 🙂
Mmm these look amazing!
Thanks for stopping in D!