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: 7 g (2 tsp) dried yeast; 1 egg yolk beaten with 2 tbsp milk, to glaze; 200 g unsalted butter, diced; 2 cinnamon sticks or 6 cardamom pods, roughly crushed to just reveal the black seeds; 2 tbsp ground cinnamon or cardamom; 2–3 tbsp pearl sugar; 2 tsp sunflower oil, for oiling; 350 ml whole milk; 500 g (3⅓ cups) strong white bread flour; ½ tsp salt; 225 g sugar

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
Bread
Vegetarian
Nordic
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