Cinnamon Buns Recipe ❤

Hey everyone! I really enjoyed writing my recipe post for Toffee Apples, so i thought I'd pop up another recipe for one of my faves - Cinnamon Buns💜

You will need; (for the buns)

225ml Milk (i used soya milk to make them dairy free)

75g Softened Butter (i swapped this for soya spread)

1/2 tsp vanilla bean paste (or vanilla extract)

7g/1 packet of dry yeast

560g Plain Flour

1 tsp of salt

112g Sugar

2 eggs

You will need; (for the filling)

180g Brown Sugar (i used Caster sugar as I'd ran out)

3 tbsp Cinnamon

75g Softened Butter

You will need; (for the icing)

1 tsp Vanilla Bean Paste (or vanilla extract)

3-5 tbsp milk or water

280g Icing Sugar

Start by heating up your milk until it is warm, make sure not to boil it. Once warm, add in your yeast packet stir it into your milk and set aside. Add all your dry ingredients together and stir, make a well in the middle then stir in the eggs. 

Now is time for your butter, i actually prefer to have my butter melted to make it easier to stir in - but make sure its not too hot i stir my vanilla bean paste into the melted butter and add them together. Lastly add in your yeast/milk mixture and stir everything together until you have formed a dough.

Knead your dough well for 5 minutes, once you have done this pop your dough into a lightly oiled or lightly floured bowl to rise for 1 hour - it will double in size.

After your hour is up, preheat your oven to 200॰C/180॰C fan oven. Roll out your dough on a well floured surface to about 1cm thickness into a rough square shape (don't worry about neatness) Now you can spread your butter over as close to the edge as possible.

Mix together your cinnamon and sugar then sprinkle it over the dough right to the edges just like you did with the butter. From there, start rolling your dough from the closest edge to the furthest away - rolling tight enough so that the sugar mixture doesn't fall out but not too tight.

Once you have done that, cut the cinnamon rolls into slices about two fingers width apart (i managed to get 15 buns from mine) and pop them into a lightly greased cake pan not too close together, as above.

Pop them in the oven for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown😍.

Once out the oven, (if you can resist, i normally cant wait and burn my tongue😛) Set aside to cool whilst you make your icing!

Put your icing sugar, vanilla paste and 3 tbsp of water/milk into the bowl and mix - adding more water if you need to, to reach the consistency you like.

Once your icing is smooth drizzle it all over your completely cooled buns.

You can also do the traditional cream cheese frosting but i much prefer this glaze on my cinnamon buns!

I guarantee you will become addicted to these like i am. These are the thing i always get asked to make and enjoy making the most as they are actually surprisingly easy! They taste absolutely amazing, even if i do say so myself😜

Ashley 💚

Easy Toffee Apple Recipe..♥

Hey everyone! Thought I'd pop something different up today for Halloween, I loooove Toffee Apples so i thought I'd have a go at making them. They are super easy to make, so why not give it a go🍎!

You will need;

400g Golden Caster Sugar

5 tablespoons Golden Syrup

120g Water

About 8 medium sized or 10 small Apples of your choice (I used gala apples) 

Lollipop Sticks

Greaseproof Paper

Add the sugar and water into a pot and heat until the sugar has dissolved (this will take about 5-8 minutes, whilst you're waiting for this you'll need to pop the apples into a bowl with some boiling water for a couple of minutes to get rid of the horrible waxy layer they have. Once removed from the bowl of water dry the apples, pull all the stalks off and pop a lolly stick in each apple.

Once the sugar has dissolved, add in your 5 tablespoons of golden syrup heat until you can drop some toffee into a glass of cold water and it goes hard. If it doesn't it isn't ready yet. When it is ready you can use it how it is, or add some colouring of your choice. I dropped the heat down a tiny bit when i was coating the apples.

I used some of the toffee as the colour it came out then i separated half of the remaining toffee into another pot, i added a touch of Wilton violet colour paste to one half and Wilton red colour paste to the other. 

I absolutely had to make red toffee apples as these remind me so much of the ones i used to eat when i was younger! Then purple because i thought it was a good spooky Halloween colour! You can make which ever colour you want. These food colours are the best I've ever used, you only need a tiny bit and they last ages! You can get a set of 8 different colours on Amazon for only £9.63 > Wilton 8 Colour Icing Set 💙

I used cake pop sticks for my apples as i couldn't find lollipop sticks in any shops! Once you're ready to dip your apples, I suggest getting a tablespoon to help. Simply dip them into the toffee twist them until covered, if there is any bits you've missed pour the toffee over with your spoon, then pop the finished apple on your sheet of greaseproof paper to dry and repeat until you have no toffee left.

The toffee starts to set straight away, but leave them for at least 1 hour (if you can resist) to give them that classic hard toffee finish! I was so happy with the finished product and couldn't believe how easy it actually was! You can go for a different finish by dipping the apples in some chopped nuts, sprinkles, chocolate or your fave sweets before the toffee sets. Or if you don't like toffee apples why not make chocolate ones with melted chocolate instead?🎃

If you give them a go, let me know and show me your creations💜! Happy Halloween, Ashley..👻