Cinnamon Swirls
Equipment
- 2 baking trays
- Dough scraper
Ingredients
The Dough
- 120 ml mik
- 1 large egg
- 335 g plain flour
- 7 g Fast Action Dried Yeast
- ¼ tsp salt
- 70 g granulated sugar
- 60 g butter at room temperature
Filling
- 75 g butter at room temperature
- 45 g brown sugar
- 2 tbsp ground almond
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 60 ml honey or golden syrup
- 90 g sultanas
Icing
- 80 g icing sugar
- 1 tbsp milk
- ½ tsp vanilla essence
Instructions
Mix the dough ingredients
- use a stand mixer with dough hook for about 7 minutes; in a Bread Machine dough setting; or by hand and knead.
- Leave to rise in bowl covered with a cloth for 1 hour to 1 1/2 hours
Mix the filling
- Put all the ingredients except the sultanas into a bowl and mix with a wooden spoon until smooth.
- Add the sultanas and mix through
Make the swirls
- Prepare a baking tray, lightly dusting with flour. It will not be baked in this tray.
- Prepare a 2nd baking tray by dusting with flour. This will be the one going in the oven
- Tip the risen dough on to the baking tray and spread out evenly over the tray.
- Spread the filling evenly over the entire width but leaving about 2 cm from the each of the long edges.
- Roll up the dough and filling, like a swiss roll, by the long edge
- Cut the dough with metal dough scraper into slices about 15-20mm thick and place on the 2nd baking tray (you may need 2 trays)
- Cover the swirls and leave to rise. This could take 2 to 3 hours
Bake
- Bake in fan oven 180C for 15 mins
- Place on a cooling rack.
- Mix the ingredients for the icing and drizzle over the swirls
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