aka R’acquel

The captain saved my life last night, i swear.

DILEMMA: Planned visit to my parent’s place - i must bake something, but i don’t have the time to make a crazy cheesecake like dis ‘an dat! Don’t know what dis ‘an dat means? Then go visit the Irish Church Lady to find out!

LIGHT BULB MOMENT: Mrs.Lifecruiser’s Swedish Cinnamon Buns… perfect!

I swear man, these things rock. You really have to bake them and then feel really guilty for eating far too many of them afterwards. They sure do go nice with the morning coffee tho! {phwoar!}

Actually - i was downstairs working… thinking that i was going to go to bed, until i realised that my kitchen still needed cleaning up and then i faced this risen mound on my kitchen bench forgetting about the Swedish Buns!

They sat on my bench for a few hours and it was about 11C cold last night - so the rising action of the yeast was notably paused!

A few adjustments to the original recipe - i only had about 40g of yeast on me. I put a little more sugar compared to last time. Mrs.Lifecruiser measures her solids in litres so at 150ml - i’m just assuming that i fill my measuring jar with sugar until it reaches the 150ml line. I pumped it up to about 200ml - as the first ones i made could’ve done with a bit more sugar.

The next stupid thing i did was use less butter - 150g - i had that much butter left, so as i’m melting it - i’m thinking,

“Oh shit! There’s not enough nutella so how can i do the cinnamon one without any butter left?!”

So that’s why it ended up with only 100g of fat in it. I was scared it would’ve ruined the recipe, but it didn’t!

So - facing the need to address the dough when i needed to go to sleep!

My son asked if he could help me make them, and this is what he did straight after he asked that question…

It was thankfully a very discreet lick, barely touching the dough. *lol*

I clearly didn’t have enough Nutella for the job, but i smeared all the remaining contents of the jar anyway. Then i pulled out the blackberry jam and smeared heaps of it on top! Why not? Maybe it could work! (and it did!)

Last time, i didn’t manage to make as many buns as Mrs.Lifecruiser could, so it made me wonder if i rolled the dough the wrong way. Instead of up & down, i did it sideways, so i could get a longer sausage! I managed 15 from half of the dough, the other half is still in my fridge.

The dilemma of the cold dough was solved by tossing this lot into the oven while it was heating up, just to warm it up a bit and it helped to puff them up when i took it out of the oven!

This time, when i put them into the oven to bake them - i stood in front of the oven to WATCH it, beause my first trial - i didn’t believe these things could cook in 5-10 minutes and nearly burnt them. It actually took about 12 minutes to get them just-right for the second round - but my oven was at about 220C (as i was in such a rush to go to bed!)

The bowl just had to be in the shape of a boat huh?

Our car breaks down, so no trip to my folks place and there’s only 3 buns left at the moment. I guess they’ll just have to go down well with the morning coffee tomorrow!

UPDATE: …only one left for tomorrow morning!