Jamie Oliver Cinnamon Buns Food

CRANBERRY & CINNAMON SWIRL BUNS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, dissolve the yeast in the warm milk, stirring with a whisk, then beat and add 1 egg and stir again.
• Sift together the flours, cinnamon and a small pinch of sea salt and add the butter, using your hands to crumble it.
• Add everything to the milk mixture with the sugar. Beat and add another egg, stirring to form a dough. Keep stirring until the dough comes cleanly from the edge of the bowl and knead on a floured surface for about 5 minutes, or until smooth.
• Return it to the bowl, cover it with an oiled piece of clingfilm and leave to rise at room temperature for 30 minutes.
• Chop the cranberries and finely grate the orange zest. Combine with the remaining filling ingredients in a bowl and leave to one side.
• Once the dough has risen, divide it in half, place each one on a lightly floured surface and roll it out to a 30cm x 40cm rectangle.
• Spread the filling over the top of each, then roll each piece of dough into a wide cylinder. Cut them into 2½cm slices.
• Line two baking trays with baking paper and lay the cinnamon rolls on top, pressing each one so they spread out slightly.
• Cover with oiled clingfilm and leave to rise for 20 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 220ºC/gas 7.
• Beat the remaining egg and brush it over the cinnamon rolls, then sprinkle with a tiny pinch of sugar.
• Bake in the oven for 15 to 18 minutes, until golden brown, then leave to cool on a wire rack. Brush with warmed apricot jam or honey to glaze. Serve warm or cold.

CINNAMON BUNS

Steps:

• Combine the water and milk in a medium saucepan and warm over low heat until it is about 100 degrees F (but no more than 110 degrees). Remove from heat and sprinkle the yeast over the surface over the liquid. Sprinkle a pinch of the sugar over the top and set aside without stirring, until foamy, about 5 minutes.
• Whisk the butter, egg yolk and vanilla into the yeast mixture.
• Whisk the flour, the sugar, salt and nutmeg in a large bowl. Make a well in the center of the flour and stir in the yeast mixture with a wooden spoon to make a thick and slightly sticky dough. Turn dough onto a floured work surface and knead until soft and elastic, about 6 minutes. Shape into a ball.
• Brush the inside of a large bowl with butter. Put dough in the buttered bowl, turning to coat lightly with butter. Cover bowl with plastic wrap, trace a circle the size of the dough on the plastic, and note the time. Let rise at room temperature until doubled in size, about 1 hour 15 minutes.
• Turn dough out of the bowl and knead briefly to release excess air; reform into a ball and return to the bowl. Lightly butter a large piece of plastic wrap and lay it on the dough. Cover the entire bowl tightly with plastic and proof in the refrigerator for 4 hours or overnight.
• To fill and form the rolls: Butter a 9-by-13-inch baking pan. Whisk the sugar and cinnamon together in a small bowl. Turn prepared dough onto a floured work surface and press, then roll into 10-by-18-inch rectangle, with a long edge facing you. Spread the softened butter evenly over the surface of the dough, leaving about an inch border on the side opposite you. Evenly scatter the cinnamon-sugar over the butter. Starting from the long side facing you, roll the dough up into a tight cylinder. Lightly brush the clean edge of the dough with water. Press the open long edge to the dough to seal the cylinder.
• Slip a long taut piece of string or dental floss under the roll, about 1 1/2 inches from the end. Lift and cross the string ends over the roll, then pull the ends tightly in opposite directions to cut a single roll. Repeat, cutting every 1 1/2 inches, to make 12 rolls. Place the rolls cut-side-down in the prepared pan, leaving 1 inch of space between them. Cover the rolls loosely with plastic wrap. Set aside in a warm place to rise until rolls double in size, about 1 hour 10 minutes.
• Position the rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F.
• Bake buns until golden brown and the tops of the buns spring back when pressed lightly, about 30 minutes. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
• To make the glaze: Sift the confectioners' sugar into a medium bowl. Whisk in the condensed milk, butter, and lemon juice to make a smooth, slightly loose icing. Add the vanilla and cinnamon. Drizzle the icing over warm buns. Serve.

SEXY SWEDISH BUNS

Steps:

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• For the dough:;
• Stir the yeast into the warm milk in a bowl, then put it aside.;
• If using cardamom pods, lightly bash them in a pestle and mortar, then pick out the husks and pound the seeds to a fine powder.
• Beat the eggs and salt in a large bowl, then add the cardamom, sugar, melted butter,
• 18 ounces/500 g flour, and the milk and yeast mixture. Whisk constantly as you add everything so you end up with quite a thick, gluey consistency. Mix in the remaining
• 10 ounces/300 g flour until you have a dough. Use clean, floured hands to bring the dough together, then dust the top with flour.
• Cover the bowl with plastic wrap or clingfilm and leave in a warm place to prove or rise for 1 hour, or until the dough has doubled in size and is full of air pockets.
• For the filling:
• Meanwhile, put the blueberries and caster sugar (superfine) into a bowl. Finely grate the orange zest and add most of it to the bowl, along with a good squeeze of orange juice, then mash together with a potato masher.
• Line a large baking tray with greaseproof paper, then dot the paper with a few knobs of the butter and sprinkle over 1/2 the demerara sugar (raw sugar).
• Dust a clean surface and your hands with flour and gently stretch and pull the risen dough out until it's a bit bigger than a 8 1/2 by 11-inch letter-size/A4 (210 mm by 297 mm) piece of paper.
• Cook's Note: This next bit is pretty messy, so have a bowl of flour on hand to help you handle the dough and don't be alarmed if it seems quite wet.
• Use a slotted spoon to move 1/2 the mashed blueberries onto the dough. Try not to include too much juice. Use the back of the spoon to spread the blueberries around the dough. Pull the sides of the dough up and into the middle like an envelope, and keep turning and pushing the dough together.
• Cut the dough into 8 equal portions, then pull and stretch each one into a long, thin sausage shape, twisting them around on themselves so you get a sort of rough knot. Arrange them on the tray, leaving enough room between for them to spread as they cook. Push your fingers into the top of each one to make a little well, then spoon in a few of the remaining mashed berries and gently push them down.
• Spoon over a little of the blueberry juice from the bowl, then sprinkle with the rest of your demerara sugar (raw sugar) and the reserved orange zest. Cover with a damp tea towel and leave to prove or rise for about 20 minutes in a warm place.
• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F/180 degrees C/gas 4. Once the buns have risen, put them into the oven and cook for 25 minutes, until golden and crispy. Serve them, hot and delicious, by themselves or with warm custard.