{"id":7464,"date":"2020-12-14T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfoodflavors.com\/?p=7464"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:58:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T15:58:40","slug":"how-to-make-sticky-braided-cinnamon-knots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfoodflavors.com\/how-to-make-sticky-braided-cinnamon-knots\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Sticky Braided Cinnamon Knots!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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December 14, 2020. Cold grey day. Sticky Braided Cinnamon Knots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I love the smell of spices baking in the oven, especially with butter. Like the tray of cinnamon rolls I made here<\/a>, or the cardamom knots in this recipe<\/a>. The smell of baking bread is simply wonderful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weather has been a bit gloomy and cold these past few days. I have been taking a break from the kitchen after the Thanksgiving feast. Today, I felt motivated to make something different from my usual holiday 16 point cinnamon star bread. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the members of my baking groups on FB shared a cool picture of these knots and I was intrigued. With a bit of online searching, I found Richard Bertinet’s recipe and made these from scratch. The buns are lovely – sticky, loaded with cinnamon, and very sweet. If I were to make this again, I would probably scale back the filling since it was too much for my personal liking. But overall, the texture is just spot on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The recipe has 3 steps. First – create the dough and filling, second – shape the knots, third – brush sweet glaze onto the baked buns fresh from the oven. That creates a beautiful sheen and makes the buns sticky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trickiest part is braiding and shaping the knots. I’ll share pictures of how I did that, but it’s not as difficult as it looks. If you have ever braided anything, you should be good to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, let’s get baking!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ingredients for Sticky Braided Cinnamon Knots<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For Dough:
\u00be cup (200g) Full Fat Milk
2 Eggs, room temperature
4\u00be cups (600g) Bread Flour\/high protein flour
4\u00bd tsp. (13g) Active Dry Yeast
\u00bc cup (50g) Fine Granulated Sugar
2 tsp, Salt
14 Tbsp. (200g) Unsalted Butter
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For Filling:
10\u00bd Tbsp. (150g) Unsalted Butter
1\u00bc cup (250g) Soft Brown Sugar
2 tsp Cinnamon
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Egg Wash:
1 Egg, lightly beaten with 2 Tbsp of Milk
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Sugar Glaze:
\u00bd cup (100g) Fine Granulated Sugar
\u00bd cup (100g) Water<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You need a 12 hole muffin pan to make this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Making the Dough<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Let’s start by gathering all the ingredients. Put the milk and eggs into the bowl of a food mixer, then add the flour. Add yeast to one side of the bowl, then add the salt and sugar to the other side. Finally, add the butter to the mixture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n