Sticky Buns
Sticky Buns
Decadent and gooey sticky buns smothered in a cream cheese glaze. Bring these to your next brunch to make lots of new friends 🙂
Ingredients
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for the dough
- 4 large eggs, room temperature
- 3/4 milk
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1 1/4 teaspoons sea salt
- 2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 3 1/2-4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, softened
for the glaze
- 4 tablespoons salted butter, softened
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups confectioner's sugar
Instructions
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, add the eggs and half the sugar. Microwave the milk until just warm to the touch. Whisk the remaining sugar, salt, and yeast into the milk and let stand for five minutes to ensure that the yeast is good. (It should foam.)
- Add the milk mixture, the butter, and 3 ½ cups of the flour to the standing mixer. Fit the mixer with a dough hook and churning on medium speed until a ball of dough forms. Sprinkle with flour as needed, or until the ball separates from the sides of the bowl about 5-8 minutes. Transfer to an oiled metal bowl and cover tightly with plastic wrap. Cover, additionally, with a dishtowel and place the bowl somewhere warm to proof for 4 hours.
- Take the proofed dough and turn out onto a floured surface. Kneed a couple time and sprinkle with flour until the dough is still sticky, but workable. Roll the dough into a 16 by 12 inch rectangle about ¼ of an inch thing. Spread the dough with the tablespoon of butter. Whisk together the sugar, cinnamon, and salt and sprinkle evenly over the dough. Roll the dough up into a spiral log. Stretch the dough into an 18-inch cylinder. Cut the dough with a serrated knife into 12 portions. (For easy cutting, cut the log in half, then in quarters, then cut each quarter into thirds.) Arrange the 12 portions, cut side down for the two end buns, in the baking pan with the glaze, three rows by 4 columns. Cover the pan tightly with plastic wrap, and foil and refrigerate until ready to bake.
- If using refrigerated buns, remove from the fridge the night before baking or at least six hours before baking. Leave, covered, in a warm place until ready to use. This allows the buns to rise a second time.
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Bake the proofed buns, uncovered, for about 30-35 minutes or until the tops are golden brown and the buns register 170ºF on an instant-read thermometer.
- Using an electric mixer, beat together all glaze ingredients. Once the buns are out of the oven, immediately frost the tops with the glaze. Then swoon and foodgasm.
Sticky bun recipe from Bakelist, frosting by me