Finally! I am all settled in in our beautiful apartment and have gotten reacquainted with a kitchen! Feels good to be baking and cooking again - should I add eating homemade food again too? YUM! Anyhow I made this last night and it was really fun to make. The concept of the pull-apart bread is pretty cool! Charles really liked the bread. Mom and Dad not so much. You win some you lose some. I thought it was good but tasted exactly like a cinnamon bun which is something I was not entirely expecting. So if you want a yummy cinnamon bun with a twist, this should work! I took the recipe from Joy The Baker. Her blog has plenty of cool recipes.
Ingredients for the dough:
- 2 3/4 cups plus 2 tbsp of flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 1/4 tsp active dry yeast (1 envelope)
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 ounces unsalted butter
- 1/3 cup whole milk (I used 2% and it did the trick)
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 eggs at room temperature
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- In a large mixing bowl whisk together 2 cups flour, sugar, yeast and salt. Set aside.
- Whisk together the eggs and set aside.
- In a saucepan, melt together milk and butter, until butter has just melted. Remove from the heat and add the water and vanilla extract. Let it cool down a bit - needs to be warm.
- Pour the milk mixture into the dry ingredients and mix with a wooden spoon. Ass in the eggs and stir the mixture until everything is well incorporated.
- Add in the remaining 3/4 cup of flour and stir well. The recipe says you should get a sticky dough. I got a dry dough and it worked fine too.
- Place the dough in a large greased bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and a kitchen towel. Place in a warm space and allow to double for an hour.
Ingredients for the filling:
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 2 ounces unsalted butter, melted until browned
- Whisk together the sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg for the filling and set aside.
- Melt the butter until browned and set aside.
- Grease your pan. Set aside.
- Once your dough has risen, deflate it and knead about 2tbsp of flour into the dough. Cover with with a kitchen towel and let rest for 5 minutes.
- On a floured surface, roll out your dough as much as you can. Joy says the dough should be 12 inches tall and about 20 inches long.
- Using a brush, spread the melted butter across all of the dough.
- Sprinkle all of your sugar and cinnamon mixture. Be generous.
- Slice the dough vertically, into six equal sized strips.
- Stack the strips on top of one another and slice the stack into six equal slices once again. You will have six stacks of six squares.
- Layer the dough squares in the loaf pan. Place a kitchen towel on top and let rise in a warm place for 45 minutes.
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Place the loaf in the oven and bake 30 minutes or until the top is very golden brown.
- Remove from the oven and allow to rest for 20-30 minutes. Run a butter knife around the edges of the pan to loosen the bread and invert onto a clean plate.
- You can invert it back to its right side up.
- Enjoy!
* I served this with ice cream.
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