For the dough
two eggs
a stick of butter (unsalted is best if you do not want to the salt to retard the yeast)
1/2 cup brown sugar
1-1/2 cups of milk/ buttermilk (I used soy and it worked fine)
flour (good quality plain white is the easiest to work with)
yeast (first time I used fresh yeast was lovely)
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the yeast was added to a good dollop of flour and mixed together... in a saucepan the butter, sugar and milk was stirred together on a low heat until the butter had began to melt... this was all added to the flour with the eggs and quickly blended with a big wooden spoon... then dumped on a floured surface and kneaded for a good 8 minutes till the dough was soft and elastic...
then left in a ball somewhere warm to double in size about an hour...
then it was punched down and left again for 15 minutes to spring back up into shape...
then you can roll out the dough onto your surface...
and slop over the apple mix and/or other goodies prepared...
Apple mixture...
the best thing about this is how versatile it is, next time i will try rhubarb and apple but for now here is a good apple mix...
-apple grated...
-walnuts
-cinnamon a good dusting
-brown sugar
-butter
-a dash of maple syrup
-almonds
stew this mixture in a pot a little till the butter is just melted... if you are making a crisscrossed style bun you only need to slightly slice the apples and addd armed butter...
to make a criss cross bun roll out a large oval and add the filling in a line down the middle, cut parallel lines from the middle filling out toward the edge of the oval then plait these strands down across the filling and tuck it in at the end...
To make individual buns spread the mixture over the entire rolled out rectangle then roll this up carefully and slice into individual pieces and sit them upright together in a baking dish...
leave this to sit for a further hour till the dough has again risen to fill the space...
bake for twenty minutes
then enjoy
drool
Some Alternative recipes can be found here
vegan... http://www.foodista.com/blog/2009/12/21/vegan-cinnamon-rolls/
easy... http://theblackapple.typepad.com/inside_a_black_apple/2009/02/cinnamon-rolls-for-two-insane-people-or-four-sane-ones.html
strudel... http://chefinyou.com/2009/05/austrian-apple-strudel/
