So, first of all, a quick trip to the local East of England Coop to stock up on the necessaries.
Ricotta is with the cheese spreads and so on – it’s a soft Italian cheese. I did find a recipe for making my own, but I decided that was a step too far!
Can’t make cinnamon buns without a healthy dose of cinnamon 😉
So, ingredients.
Dough
300 g plain flour
heaped tsp easy bake yeast.
120 ml milk (I use whole because that’s what we’ve got)
35g salted butter (then I skip the salt that other recipes call for)
33g gram golden caster sugar.
2 medium eggs.
Filling
80g light brown sugar.
2 tsp cinnamon
Icing
30 g ricotta
40g icing sugar
10g butter
drops vanilla
Warm the milk, butter, and sugar gently until just warm. Put yeast and flour in a big bowl, then add liquid and eggs, stirring to get dough. If it’s too sticky (will depend on the size of your eggs basically) add a bit more flour.
Leave to rise for a couple of hours, or even better overnight.
Punch back, roll out to a rectangle (mines probably 18″ by 12″) and spread the filling across it. Roll into a sausage and cut into 6 round buns.
Bake for around 15 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean at 190 degrees Celsius.
For the glaze, put ingredients in a bowl and blitz with hand held mixer, or a whisk if your mixer is playing up. Sigh. Drop over warms buns.
Serve on suitably Christmassy plates, mid Christmas morning after you’re done opening presents 😉
I’m actually really pleased I’ve worked out the glaze, it’s going to elevate Christmas morning breakfast to a suitably sticky occasion. I’ll probably double up on the quantities so that there are buns for tea too 🙂 If you’ve any Christmas food traditions of your own, I’d love to hear about them.
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