Recipe: Cinnamon Sticks (Kanelpinner)
(makes 30-40 sticks)
100g Confectioners’ Sugar
200g Butter
1 Egg Yolk
300g White Flour
2tbsp Sugar
1tbsp Cinnamon (ground)
Confectioners’ Sugar and the butter are mixed until white in color. Add the Egg yolk and the White Flour.
Roll the dough into a long sausage (about a fingers thickness) and cut them into finger-long sticks.
Mix the Sugar and Cinnamon on a plate and roll the stick over.
Bake in the middle of the oven at 180 degrees (gasmark 4).
Recipe: Skillingsbolle (Cinnamon Buns)
6 cups white flour
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup margarine
50g yeast
2 cups lukewarm milk
2 tbsp cinnamon
2 tbsp sugar
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Mix the Flour, Sugar, Margarine and Yeast - then add the milk. Blend it all and let it rise 1 hour.
Mix the sugar and cinnamon together.
Halve the dough, then roll each piece to 40cm x 40cm squares (approx). Spread the sugar/cinnamon mixture on top.
Roll up both square and slice off 12 pieces. Shape into rolls.
Let rise for bit a pan. Then brush with egg white and sprinkle with sugar.
Bake at 320 degrees for approx 17 minutes until they are golden.