Danish Pastry Cinnamon Rolls.
Danish Pastry Cinnamon Rolls
Xmas Chaos
For the love of God I am hardly keeping my Xmas sh.t together. What the figgy pudding is all this madness about? Never before have I had so many fingers in so many mince pies and I have to tell you I’m not coping so well. What with my daughter singing a solo in the school’s nativity as well as a Xmas medley with her dance school and my son singing with the school in three performances my already normal state of befuddlement has now reached the, “Haven’t a Clucking Clue” stage. Jesus, so many outfits, so many rehearsals, so many drop offs and pick ups. I do not know my sagging arse from my scaly elbow….I’m in a permanent state of Xmas anxiety. What if I can’t keep this yuletide show on the road??? I find myself sitting bolt upright in the middle of the night consumed with jazz pants and matte tights…….who knew?
Xmas Balls
My daughter however is living her Xmas dream. Her Xmas star is shining so bright it’s like the Baby Jesus is being born at our house. She is desperate to be on the stage and her time has finally come. At six she is to dress as an angel and sing a CELINE DION number SOLO with a microphone (WTF!!!), well a verse or two. I’m significantly concerned. I think her teacher has been duped into believing my daughters heartfelt assurances/full volume shrieks that she could own that stage and sing that bad boy like Whitney. I bet the poor woman didn’t stand a chance……. In my SIGNIFICANT experience she still needs some help in that department, maybe a full strength (hundreds of them) male voice choir would do if you get my drift, preferably from Wales. Not sure I’m actually looking forward to sitting through this one truth be told………I’ll definitely need a few Mince Pies laced with Brandy afterwards. I so hope she proves me wrong, I blinkin love her Xmas Balls.
Easy Danish Pastry Recipe
These Danish Cinnamon Rolls are off the scale. They are all I need to make me forget the extensive administrative trials of this festive season. To be frank with you they are one of the most delicious things I have ever eaten. This recipe delivers in a way that would make my house Santa’s first port of call come Christmas Eve ,of that I have no doubt. This recipe for Danish Pastries is super simple and borrowed from Nigella Lawson. It is to be found in “How to be a Domestic Goddess” under “Processor Danish Pastry”. I love that book. It is a recipe that allows these Cinnamon Rolls to be not far off a doddle. I kid you not. It completely cuts out the squashing and rolling of the butter into the pastry just calling for some pastry rolling after the fact. The key to this elimination of the laborious middle man is a food processor. Just a couple of blitzes is all that is required before mixing and leaving overnight or at least 6 hours before serious, melt in the mouth baking heaven!!!!!
Christmas Morning Breakfast
Such is the extreme deliciousness of these Danish Pastry Cinnamon Rolls that I intend to make them a Christmas breakfast tradition. For a long time I have been searching for something special that requires minimum effort and almost no thought processing. This recipe is the answer. I shall make them up to the stage when they are in the muffin tray and leave in the fridge overnight before grabbing them out first thing ready in an hour or so to bake.
But in reality these Cinnamon Rolls are stupendous on any occasion. I thought of the idea to bake each one in a muffin tray because I was fed up of burning the outer ones when baking the usual way in one baking tray/dish. This idea, although I say it myself, is genius.
BEWARE, one is never enough……
| Prep Time | 30 minutes |
| Cook Time | 20 minutes |
| Servings |
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- 250 grams unsalted butter cold and cut into 4 cm ish chunks
- 60 mls warm water
- 125 mls warm milk
- 7 grams instant yeast 1 packet
- 30 grams caster sugar
- 1 large egg
- 350 grams strong white flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 egg for eggwash
- 2 tbsps ground cinnamon
- 85 grams unsalted butter soft
- 85 grams light muscovado sugar
- 100 grams icing sugar
- 2 tbsps milk
Ingredients
Processor Danish Pastry
Cinnamon filling
Icing
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- Tip the flour, butter, salt, sugar, yeast into your food processor.Blitz a few times until the butter is cut into 1 cm butter chunks. Empty out into a large bowl and pour in all the liquid ingredients. Mix together with a knife until all the liquid has been absorbed and it resembles a gooey mess.
- Cover with clingfilm and refrigerate overnight.
- When you are ready to begin, heavily flour the work surface and tip out the dough. Flour the top of the dough too as well as the rolling pin. The dough is very sticky at first.
- Roll out the dough into a rectangle about 25 cm by 35 cm.
- Fold the dough into three like a business letter.
- Repeat all of this another three times. Cover in clingfilm and chill in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.
- Grease and flour a large 12 hole muffin tray
- Mix all the cinnamon filling together into a paste.
- Roll out the chilled dough into the same size rectangle again. Spread the paste evenly all over the dough.
- Roll up into a giant cigar.
- Using a sharp knife cut the dough into 2 cm sections.Gently place each one in the muffin tray.
- Pre heat the oven to 180 C. Cover with clingfilm and wait until they have beautifully puffed up and almost doubled in size. Brush carefully with eggwash.
- Bake for about 20 minutes until golden brown.
- Wait for five mins before gently prising them out to cool on a wire rack. Mix the icing ingredients together. When half way cool drizzle the icing sugar all over these beauties.
- Apply to face and Xmas time will stand still for a moment.
Here is another fabulous Cinnamon recipe – Cinnamon Bundt Cake
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omg Jenny, they look bloody amazing! I’m a sucker for cinnamon buns but avoid them like the plague or they would sit on my ass forever, but making them at christmas is a genius idea because we all know that christmas day calories don’t count. We usually have croissants baked with cheese n ‘am in, but I think we might have these too!
Do it Helen,these bad boys are off the chart.Santa would so approve xx
They look so delicious!
‘Extensive administrative trials of this festive season’ YES THIS!!! I can barely keep track of where my kids are supposed to be and when, and especially what outfit they should be wearing…tennis? dance? school uniform? Christmas jumper? Jedi knight day? Sheriff/Saloon Bar Girl (they are in a panto)? Seriously losing the plot over here. One of these days I am going to get it horribly wrong!! I could do with a few of these scrumptious cinnamon buns to get me through…and maybe a drop of the hard stuff 😉 Thanks for linking up to #CookBlogShare. Eb x
Crazy Christmas shenanigans 😆😆 I can’t believe I didn’t drop one.Already missing it though!Mine go back to school tomorrow-the whole thing seems ages ago already!xx
Mmmm! Absolutely heaven Jenny! I just love your cheat’s version… and that swirl of cinnamon is just the bee’s knees!
Angela x
Honestly Angela they are to die for!xx