Cinnamon Rolls – Take 3!

Since the first two attempts (here & here) didn’t work out as planned I decided to do a third. This time using my normal method of making it up as I go along!

The normal bread I make works quite nicely, and since I need a bread as a base I edited that.

I used repostera flour instead of bread flour, just because I’m making something sweet.

So I used:

1. About 100mls of warm water
2. ¼ of a block of yeast (our blocks are 25g, so about 6.5g more or less)
3. 1 dessert spoon of oil
4. 1 teaspoon of salt

Mix until yeast is dissolved. I added that to,

• 225 g repostera flour (including sugar)

In the flour I put in about a tablespoon of sugar.

I used the dough hooks on my mixer to mix everything together.

I’ve let it prove for 30 minutes in a warm place. The dough seems a lot thicker so I think that’s a good thing.

I think this time I’m going to use the muffin molds and make individual smaller ones.

I divided the dough into 6 after I punched it out. Each bit I made into a long thin sausage shape then rolled it out.

I realised that we live in Spain so our butter is totally spreadable if it’s not kept in the fridge (and ours isn’t) so melting butter is unnecessary, so on each long thin flat sausage I spread butter as if I was putting it on bread, then sprinkled on some cinnamon/sugar mix and rolled up, then I put each in a muffin mold and poured some milk on (I remembered I forgot to pour milk on the last one and it was a bit dry).

When I’d done the last, the first had expanded a bit so I’m leaving it a few minutes for them all to catch up before I put them in the oven.

They are really good! Very tasty. Not dry at all, it is essential to put some milk over before you put it in the oven.

Third time was nice, but still needs work so here is Cinnamon rolls – Take 4!

I’m on take 4 now,  because some mumsnetters sent me links to the recipes they used. A consistent thing was warm milk instead of warm water and rolling lengthways and cutting into rolls/slices that way. Both things make sense so I had just enough flour left to try again… So I am.