Obama Buns

For years we made pecan sticky buns that we called ’Bama Buns—’Bama referring to the state of Alabama, where pecans are common and where our head pastry baker at the time, Mitch Stamm, harkened from. Then, in 2008, Barack Obama was elected president. We couldn’t help but notice the similarity between his last name and our sweet little apolitical sticky bun. We thought it would be fun to change the name, at least during his presidency, to Obama Buns. Although President Obama has eaten at Zin