Kanelsnurre

Name: Kanelsnurre
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 3 h 55 min
Yield: Makes 12 buns
Cuisine: New Nordic
Ingredients: 2 cinnamon sticks or 6 cardamom pods, roughly crushed to just reveal the black seeds; 225 g sugar; ½ tsp salt; 7 g (2 tsp) dried yeast; 500 g (3⅓ cups) strong white bread flour; 350 ml whole milk; 200 g unsalted butter, diced; 2–3 tbsp pearl sugar; 1 egg yolk beaten with 2 tbsp milk, to glaze; 2 tsp sunflower oil, for oiling; 2 tbsp ground cinnamon or cardamom

Cinnamon Buns

Preparation info

Makes
12
buns

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
4 hr

Appears in

Copenhagen Cult Recipes

By Christine Rudolph and Susie Theodorou

Published 2019

About

In Denmark this traditional yeast-based dough is flavoured with cinnamon, while in Sweden it’s flavoured with cardamom. The current trend in Copenhagen, however, is to eat these flavoured with cardamom.

Ingredients

350 ml whole milk
2 cinnamon sticks or 6 cardamom pods, roughly crushed to just reveal the

Europe
Denmark
Nordic
Bread
Vegetarian
Copenhagen

Method

Gently heat the milk, cinnamon sticks and 50 g of the butter. Combine the flour, yeast, salt, 75 g of the sugar, and 1 tsp