Kanilsnúðar

Cinnamon rolls

You can never have enough cinnamon roll recipes - but this recipe really drove me crazy the first time I tried it! I baked it for the first time in mid-August for child3's birthday - but it went wrong; The dough just didn't do what it was supposed to, wouldn't roll up, and looked pretty pitiful afterwards. The taste is okay, but that's not how baking is supposed to work!

So I tried it again a few days later for Child2's birthday, changed things a bit - and the dough was much easier to work with. Then brushed with a little milk and sprinkled with brown sugar before baking - then the result was not only really tasty, but also visually presentable!

Ingredients

250 g flour
50 ml lukewarm water
1 pack of dry yeast

1 egg

100 ml lukewarm milk
50 g soft butter

2 Tbsp brown sugar

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp cardamom

100 g butter

100 g brown sugar

2 tsp cinnamon

2 Tbsp milk

1 Tbsp brown sugar

Preparation

Pour the warm water into a bowl and stir in the dry yeast, then let the mixture stand for about 5 minutes.

Add the lukewarm milk and egg.

Then add flour, soft butter, sugar, salt and cardamom and knead everything into a nice yeast dough.

Let the dough rise for about 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, mix the butter with the sugar and cinnamon to make a nice, sweet cinnamon butter.

Then roll out the dough into a rectangle, spread with the cinnamon butter,...

...carefully roll it up over the long side, ...

...cut into slices and place on a baking tray lined with baking paper, leaving some space between them. Let the rolled cinnamon rolls rise on the tray for another 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C) upper/lower heat.

Then brush the cinnamon rolls with a little milk and sprinkle with brown sugar.

Bake in the preheated oven at 350 °F (180 °C) upper and lower heat for about 15 to 20 minutes until the rolls have turned nice and golden brown.

Take the finished cinnamon rolls out of the oven, let them cool down a little - and then enjoy! Verði þér að góðu!

[Translated from here.]