Homemade Cinnamon Buns

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Soft and buttery inside, crunchy and gooey outside, they are our special Christmas Cinnamon Buns morning treat.

To have them fresh in the morning, I prepare the buns the night before and let them rise overnight.

Bake them at dawn, and the lovely fragrances of cinnamon and caramel will spread throughout the house, welcoming in the new day.

Can be prepared the night before and baked in the morning.

I know many of my friends and their children have been waiting for this recipe. When Liam was in lower school, all his school friends were looking forward to his birthday. 

In the morning he would arrive in class with freshly baked Cinnamon Buns.  Even older brothers and sisters would remember to stop by to wish him happy birthday!

I always made sure one was put aside for Mrs Tindle, the Lower school Headmaster. 

There wouldn’t be any left otherwise!

Do you want to know why these cinnamon buns are so special?

They are cooked over a base of brown sugar and butter caramel sprinkled with grated walnuts.

As soon as they are out of the oven, I turn them upside down on the serving dish.

The brown sugar butter caramel, which is still melting hot, percolates inside the buns making them gooey and crunchy at the same time.

This recipe uses the Kenwood bread machine, You can find my review in the link and see what other recipes I make with it.
If you don’t have the bread machine you can find the recipe here:
How to make brioche, or bread rolls’ dough without a bread machine

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Homemade Cinnamon Buns

Soft and buttery inside, crunchy and gooey outside, our special Christmas Cinnamon Buns morning treat. Prepared the night before and baked in the morning #yourguardianchef #breakfast #cinnamon

Prep Time30 mins

Cook Time30 mins

Total Time3 hrs

Course: Breakfast, Desserts

Cuisine: American, British

Servings: 20 buns

Calories: 299kcal

Ingredients

For the dough

• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 cup milk
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup melted butter
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 4 cup flour
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 package of yeast I prefer dry

Cinnamon Mix:

• 1 cup chopped pecans
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 tsp cinnamon

For the caramel:

• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 3/4 cup butter
• 2 tbsp chopped pecans

For brushing

• 1/4 cup melted butter

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Instructions

Dough:

• Load the ingredients into the machine and set the program for fresh dough (number 10 in the Kenwood). The dough will be ready in 1.5 hours.
• IMPORTANT: the ingredients should be placed in the bread machine in the exact order as listed above, liquids first.
• While the dough is getting ready in the bread machine prepare the ingredients for the filing
  

Prepare the ingredients for the filling

• Melt the 55 gr of butter and grate the walnuts
  

For the caramel:

• Prepare the caramel by melting the brown sugar and the butter.
  
• When the sugar and the butter form a foamy caramel take it out of the stove, pour it on the baking tin and sprinkle with the chopped pecans.
  

Assembling the buns

• Roll the dough over a well floured parchment paper and brush it with 55 grams of melted butter.
  
• Cover it with the cinnamon mix made with walnuts, brown sugar and cinnamon
  
• Roll it and butter the outside with a pastry brush.
  
• Cut the dough into slices and put them around the baking tin. Space them out as they need room to raise.
  
• The size of the tin will depend if you want to have less but large cinnamons buns or many and smaller ones.
• If you use a large tin you will have to make a longer and thinner roll with the dough.
• Let it rest for 1 hour, or overnight
  
• Bake in 180 C oven for 30 minutes.
  
• As soon as they are ready take them out of the oven and turn them upside down on the serving dish.
• This will allow the caramel and the butter to penetrate inside the buns making them nicely soft and gooey.

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts

Homemade Cinnamon Buns

Amount Per Serving

Calories 299 Calories from Fat 153

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 17g 26%

Saturated Fat 7g 35%

Cholesterol 47mg 16%

Sodium 230mg 10%

Potassium 83mg 2%

Total Carbohydrates 33g 11%

Dietary Fiber 1g 4%

Sugars 13g

Protein 4g 8%

Vitamin A 7.8%

Vitamin C 0.1%

Calcium 3.1%

Iron 8.3%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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