The May selection is a fragrant and light breakfast or good any time bun. The dough is prepared and then chilled for 8 to 24 hours. This is a potato sweet yeast dough. After cooking a potato, mashing it and saving some of the water, I proceeded with the dough which consists of the potato, water, yeast, bread flour, milk, butter, sugar, egg, salt and orange zest (I used lemon zest). I couldn't find where to add the zest in the recipe, so I just added it to the batter. It rose beautifully and was ready this morning for shaping and baking.
Weighing the dough before rolling.
The dough is rolled out and sprinkled with the filling. Flo calls for Macadamia nuts, but I didn't have any and they are expensive, so I used walnuts. Some cloves, cinnamon, freshly grated nutmeg, light brown sugar are added to the nuts. After rolling the dough, it is spread with melted butter and the filling sprinkled on. Then it is rolled from long end up and cut into pieces. Easy and fun to do.
Now to fill the kitchen with the wonderful aroma of baking cinnamon buns.
Fresh out of the oven and ready for the powdered sugar icing.
The tasting and gifting is the best part. My honey and my neighbors were happy to have a warm Sunday morning treat with their second cup of coffee. Please check out the
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For June, we will bake a Buttermilk Cake. I will be visiting my grandsons in California for several weeks. I will make these cinnamon buns for them and lots of other treats. Take care, lola
I'm glad you and your friends enjoyed these. So did we! We loved them so much that I made another batch yesterday. This time, I filled them with Flo's recipe for lemon/orange paste from her Lemon Pull Apart Coffee Cake. So good!! Have fun in California :o)
ReplyDeleteLooking good! I am sure your grandkids will love them!
ReplyDeleteWow, those look delicious! I can't wait to make.
ReplyDeleteHanaa - your substitute filling sounds amazing! What a great idea.