Delicious Organic Cinnamon Buns

I am not much of a baker. Well, I can’t really say that anymore. But about a year ago- I was terrible at it. And anything with yeast made me cringe. I have never had any success with any type of bread… EVER! Yep. Sad, but true. Every Christmas morning, it’s tradition for my family to have hot cinnamon buns for breakfast. Typically, I’d buy store bought and bake them that morning… but for 2019, I said, nope! I’m making them myself. And I did. And they were AMAZING! Here’s the recipe for my delicious organic cinnamon buns!

Ingredients

For Cinnamon Buns

1/2 cup organic milk
3 tbsp. organic salted butter
2 tsp. salt
3 tbsp. organic sugar
1 packet yeast
1 1/2 cups warm water
5 cups organic flour, sifted
1 cup maple syrup

For Filling

1 cup organic sugar
1 cup organic powdered sugar
2 tbsp. organic cinnamon
1/4 cup organic salted butter, softened

Directions

Scald milk
Add salt, butter, and sugar, stir well
Let cool
In separate cup, add yeast into warm water
Add cooled, scalded milk and yeast mixtures to flour
Knead for 10-15 minutes
Add a little more flour if sticky
Cover bowl with towel and let dough raise, doubling in size
Once doubled, roll out in a rectangular shape on a clean, floured surface to about 1/2 inch thickness
Spread softened butter evenly on surface, then sprinkle with cinnamon sugar mixture
Roll into long roll
Slice into 18 equally sized slices
Butter a 9″ x 13″ baking pan, then coat bottom with maple syrup (add chopped pecans or walnuts to the maple syrup, if you want)
Place buns in baking pan
Cover and let buns raise again, to double in size
Preheat oven to 400*F
Once doubled, bake for 20-30 minutes (You want them BARELY golden brown)
See directions below for the icing!