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Ready to be dipped into a warm cup of milk! mmmmmmmmmm

Eat as many as you want!

fresh from the oven

remove from the oven and leave to cool

Ready for the oven...

Preheat your oven to 250° C . Bake for about 10-15 min.

Sprinkles

Sprinkle the pearled sugar over each bun...as much as you wish :)

Onto the baking tray

Place in paper cases and coat with the eggy mixture either with a brush or with a spoon

chop chop

Slice into individual buns, each bun around 2cm thick

Roll it up!

Roll up the flat dough gradually and gently under the palms of your hands until you have a long sausage...

making the dough

Add butter, sugar and crumbled yeast to the tepid milk. Sieve flour in a bowl, then add cardamom and salt. Next pour in tepid milk mix and knead very well until the dough peels away from the bowl. Dust with a bit of flour. Cover and put in a warm place such as the airing cupboard and let rise to double size for about 30 min. Knead again very well until the dough doesn't stick to your hands any longer and place onto a floured work surface.Roll out the dough to a rectangle about 1cm in thickness. Now the fun bit;  Mix the cinnamon, sugar and butter for the filling and spread evenly on top of the dough. Although I have specified amounts in the ingredients section, you can add more or little cinnamon and sugar, depending on your tastes. Personally I like these little monsters to be very sweet, so add a little more sugar!

Kanelbullar!

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I was lucky enough to be blessed with the presence of one of the new competitors for next year's masterchef. This Swedish chef wanted to introduce me to the simple delights that are Kanelbullar.

Kanelbullar or cinnamon buns are a classic at Swedish coffee parties. During the golden age of home baking, such parties turned into orgies of sweet yeast breads, small cookies, cookies with fillings, pastries and cakes.

This tradition lives on in Sweden. If you are invited to someone’s home for coffee, you always get a cinnamon bun, a cookie or a piece of cake with it. And at cafés, dainty little cookies continue to compete with all those supersized American muffins. (www.sweden.se)

Ingredients
For the dough:
100g unsalted butter,
500ml whole milk, lukewarm,
50g lump of yeast,
120g caster sugar,
1 tsp ground cardamom,
1/2 tsp salt,
600g plain wheat flour,
200g full spelt flour,
(Or a total of 800g plain wheat flour, if you don´t like wholemeal flour)
For the filling:
80g sugar,
2 tbsp cinnamon powder,
100g unsalted butter, lukewarm
For the topping:
1 egg, slightly beaten,
Pearled sugar for the topping
 

Cous cous, lemon and feta salad to make at work

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