Nordic Cinnamon Buns
Easy recipe for traditional Nordic Cinnamon buns. These buns are baked side-by-side which means that they do not have any dry edges. Soft, warm and with delicious frosting - it does not get any better.
Servings: 25 buns
Ingredients
Dough
- 25 g fresh yeast (or equivalent dry yeast)
- 2.5 dl lukewarm milk
- 75 g melted butter
- 75 g sugar
- 500 g all-purpose flour
Cinnamon filling
- 150 g soft butter
- 5 tbsp sugar
- 5 tsp cinnamon
Frosing
- 5 tbsp icing sugar
- very little water
Instructions
- Add the fresh yeast into the lukewarm milk. Let the melted butter cool down a bit and then add it to the milk and yeast.
- Add the sugar and let it dissolve in the milk.
- Add the all purpose flour and knead the dough. Set the dough aside and let it rise for about 1 hour.
- For the cinnamon filling; Mix the soft butter, sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl.
- With a rolling pin roll the dough into a square with a thickness of about ½ cm (1/4 inch). Spread the cinnamon filling onto the dough and roll it together.
- Cut the cinnamon buns in slices in a thickness of about 2 cm (3/4 inch). Place them in a baking pan with tall edges lined with baking paper.
- Bake the cinnamon buns in the oven at 180 C (360 F) in approximately 15 minutes.
- When cold, decorate with frosting (ice sugar mixed with water)