cinnamon rolls – La Casa'l Forno

A few weeks ago the ‘Cinnamon buns day’ was celebrated…well, actually it takes place in Sweden, but if we talk about a sweet treat, I´m in for the celebration for sure! 🙂 I think better late than never, so today I present you my cinnamon buns recipe here. It´s not a complicated one and besides waiting for the dough to rise, the rest does not take long.

Here we go!

Ingredients:

For the dough:

25 gr of butter cut in pieces

225 gr of flour

1 beaten egg

1/2 teaspoon of salt

7 gr of dry yeast

125 ml of warm milk

For the filling:

55 gr of soft butter

2 teaspoons of cinnamon

50 gr of brown sugar

Preparation:

In a bowl, sift the flour with the salt and add the dry yeast, then add the butter and with your hands start mixing until everything is well combined. Then add the beaten egg and the warm milk. Knead adding more flour if necessary, make a ball with the dough, spread a bit of olive oil on top and cover with a cloth. Let the dough rise for 40 minutes in a warm place.

To make the filling, just mix the butter, the brown sugar and the cinnamon well until everything is fully integrated and you get something creamy.

If you like, you can add to the filling some raisins, cadamom or ginger to give a spicy touch.

When the dough has risen, strech it making it in a rectangular way and start forming the rolls: cut two long strips of dough leaving the top part uncut; twist the strips and then make a braid with the two of them. Now twist together forming a knot. Put it in the oven tray and put it in the preheated oven at 190º C for 20/30 minutes or until they get a gold brown color.

Done! you can sprinkle with pearl sugar or powder sugar on top, Enjoy! they are really delicious 🙂

As Easter approaches, I can´t help imagine myself having breakfast in my parents’ house having a good piece of the traditional Easter brioche followed by another one, and another…before going out and see how my childhood village fills up with people getting ready to celebrate, making plans and enjoying the great atmosphere that precedes the celebrations.

IMG_20150329_183140 — Sweet bread crown for Easter

Pity that this year I cannot join, but that doesn´t mean that I won´t enjoy a good traditional sweet…or…more than one 😉

Last year, around this time, I published the typical Easter sweet bread that you can eat in Spain during Easter, you can find the recipe here.

This year I wanted to make something different, so I kind of came up with this crown of sweet bread based on the famous Swedish cinnamon rolls. Here I explain how I did it:

Ingredients for the dough:

2 tablespoons of butter cut into cubes

225 g of flour

Half a teaspoon of salt

1 sachet of baking powder

1 egg, whisked

125 ml of warm milk

Ingredients for the filling:

4 teaspoons of butter (room temperature)

2 tablespoons of cinnamon

50g of brown sugar

The zest of one lemon and the zest of one orange

1 grated or finely chopped apple

Sieve the flour together with the salt, then add the baking powder and the butter, mix well with the help of your hands, later add the egg and the warm milk and keep kneading until you get a smooth and elastic dough.

Leave the dough in a bowl for at least 40 minutes in a warm place covered with a clean cloth until the dough doubles in volume.

After that, knead again for a minute and stretch the dough with the help of a kitchen roller.

For the filling: mix the sugar and the butter and add the rest of the ingredients: cinnamon, lemon zest, orange zest and the grated apple.

IMG_20150329_165403 — Roll the dough to get a tube shape

Roll the dough gently untlil you have a tube shape. Now cut with a sharp knife into pieces (I got 12 pieces removing the edges). Place the rolls in a previously greased round mold and put it in the oven for about 25-30 minutes at 190ºC.

IMG_20150329_182953 — Brush it with some syrup or honey

Let cool down and brush it with some syrup or honey…done! just eat and enjoy.

This dessert is going to be sold for the cancer foundation in Belgium (Kom op tegen Kanker), so I´m glad that I helped to support this good cause.

Have a good week!