Kanelbullar

I promised you the Cinnamon rolls (actually knots...) ~ Kanelbullar recipe so that's what I'm giving you today. I'm using the recipe from Rutiga Kokboken.

*Edit. I've reviewed the recipe and have used an online coverter to make the measurements more clear.

Ingredients

• 100 grams / 3,5 oz Butter
• 5 decilitres / 17 fluid oz / 2 cups  Milk
• 50 grams / 1,75 oz  Yeast
• 1 1/2 teaspoon Salt
• 1 1/2 decilitres / 5 fluid oz 4,3 oz Sugar
• 1 teaspoon Ground cardamom
• 1,3 litres / 1,4 quarts 5,4 cups Wheat flour

Filling ingredients

• 100 grams / 3,5 oz Butter
• 1 decilitre / 3,5 fluid oz  2,9 oz Sugar
• 2 teaspoons Cinnamon

On top

• 1 egg
• Pearl sugar

Melt the butter, add the milk and heat until finger warm. Crumble the yeast into a bowl. Add a little bit of the milk/butter mixture and stir until the yeast is disolved. Add the rest of the milk/butter mixture, salt, sugar and ground cardamom and 2/3 of the flour.

Mix and add flour until the dough comes off the sides of the bowl. Save a little bit of flour for later.

Cover the dough with a tea towel and let it rise until double the size, about 35-40 minutes. Mix the dough for a few minutes in the bowl and then knead it on the flour dusted work top with the rest of the flour. I usually end up adding more flour than the recipe states or the dough will be very sticky...

From Rutiga Kokboken

Divide the dough into two equal parts. Use a rolling pin to flatten the two dough parts into 20x40 cm ( 8"x16") each.  Mix the filling ingredients in small bowl and spread the butter/sugar/cinnamon filling on the dough.

From Rutiga Kokboken

Fold dough in half lengthwise and cut according to the photo.

From Rutiga Kokboken

Twist the two "legs" separately and then twist them both in to a knot.

From Rutiga Kokboken

Place the knots on a covered or greased baking sheet. Let rise under a tea towel for 20 minutes. Whisk the egg in a bowl and use a pastry brush to brush the egg onto the knots. Sprinkle some pearl sugar on top.

Place in the middle of a 250 degree Centigrade / 500 degree Farenheit (hot) oven for 8-10 minutes until gloriously brown.

Mmmmmm!

Comments

[Frida]

Och här hade man tänkt börja ett nytt liv, det är ju måndag och allt, och så frestar du med bullar :-) Ha ha ...

[Benita]

Hehe...

[julia]

great, thank you so much!
i will try that as soon as possible. yumm!

[Nagehan]

Benita,thank you for sharing your recipe!

[EnthusiasticallyHuman]

Oh, thank you for sharing this recipe!

[sharon]

looks yummy - not sure of some measurements...
sugar - 5 oz (fluid - fluid is like liquid?) I guess these are just ounces?
and flour - quarts? I only know cups and grams (1000 g = 1 kilogram) Will work it out on internet measurements..

sorry - just wanted to try recipe but got stumped trying to work this out...

sorry, one more thing... what is pearl sugar? It looks in the picture like big crystals of sugar?

They look yummy so I guess I will figure it out

Thanks for post

[Benita]

Sharon, I translated the sugar into fluid oz as it's not weighed in the original recipe, it's poured into the measuring cup. The sugar if weighed should be 4,4 oz

I used Word to translate some of the measurements and it translated the flour into quarts... I found an online converter just now though and it says 1,3 liters of flour equals 5,4 cups.

We call the sugar on top pearl sugar. Have to say I've not come across it abroad though. It's just bigger sugar crystals, like you say.

Here's the converter. It might come in handy some other time too :)
http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/cooking

I'm going to review the recipe to make it clearer :)

[Mia]

I saw Sharons question above and couldn't resist a google. Look what I found http://www.amazon.com/Lars-Own-Swedish-Pearl-Sugar/dp/B0008JGW7I

;-)

Now a blogger. ;-)

[A Merry Mishap]

Wow, this looks amazing!

[celia]

They look easy to make. I'll give them a try. But I don't like cinammon so maybe I'll try anything different... Maybe instant coffee?, lol...

[Franziska]

Idag det är inte kanelbullensdag men jag försökte recepten. Så läker! Tack för recepten!
Jag brukade bara 900 gr mjöl. Men bullarna är smaklig också :)
Jag hoppas att mina meningar är korrekt...

[Carlos]

Vad duktig du är på Svenska :)

[Anna]

Great recipe! Been baking up a storm all evening. I went ahead and dipped them in butter, cinnemon and sugar after i had knotted them up to make them extra sticky and yummy, in addidtion to the suger/butter/cinnemon mix inside! Thank you so much for sharing, especially the knotting part, i`ve always wondered how they did that;)
Anna