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How to make big and delicious cinnamon buns

From this recipe: 20 big cinnamon buns

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INGREDIENTS

Ingrediens needed

Ingrediens needed

Heat the milk

Heat the milk

Add the yeast to the lukewarm milk

Add the yeast to the lukewarm milk

Dissolve the yeast completely

Dissolve the yeast completely

Add the eggs, sugar, butter, vanilla sugar and cinnamon.

Add the eggs, sugar, butter, vanilla sugar and cinnamon.

 Mix it all together.

Mix it all together.

Add the flour little by little

Add the flour little by little

Knead the dough until it is smooth.

Knead the dough until it is smooth.

Leave the dough to rest for around 15 minutes

Sprinkle a bit of flour on the table and roll the dough out into a rectangle (approx. 40 \u00d7 50 cm).

Sprinkle a bit of flour on the table and roll the dough out into a rectangle (approx. 40 × 50 cm).

Ingrediens for the filling

Ingrediens for the filling

Add butter, sugar and cinnamon to a bowl

Add butter, sugar and cinnamon to a bowl

Whisk it together until smooth

Whisk it together until smooth

Butter out the filling in a smooth layer

Butter out the filling in a smooth layer

Roll the dough like a roulade . Make sure it is rolled tightly. When the dough is rolled, cut it into 20 slices, 2 cm each, and place them on a baking tray with baking paper. Press them lightly

They should look something like this

They should look something like this

Cover them and let them rise for approx. 45 minutes.

After rising

After rising

Brush them with egg and bake them at 180 degrees for 15 min until golden. Do not over bake them: They should be slightly soft when you take them out, so they wont get dry, when they are cold.

After 15 minutes in the oven

After 15 minutes in the oven

So good!

So good!

  • For the dough
  • 50.0g Yeast
  • 300.0ml Milk
  • 4.0 Eggs
  • 100.0g Soft butter
  • 100.0g Sugar
  • 1.0Tbsp Vanilla Sugar
  • 1.0Tbsp Cinnamon
  • 800.0g Flour
  • For the filling
  • 200.0g Soft butter
  • 170.0g Cane sugar
  • 2.0Tbsp Cinnamon