Walnut-Cinnamon rolls

Hello my sweet ladys and gentlemen,

autumn is coming! It is not here yet but I can already feel it. It is getting cold outside, it is windy and a bit foggy. This is my favourite time of the year. I mean the whole word is better when it's fall right? It's the time of cozy sewaters, hot cups of tea, hot chocolate or Starbuck's pumpkin spiced latte. It's the time of colored trees, beautiful strolls through the woods and the smell of cinnamon, apples and walnuts. Yesterday it rained all day log and the leaves were already a bit colored.     

 

I planted some wonderful autumn plants like heather and chrysanthemum in my little balcony garden and the doorstep is decorated with little yellow pumpkins. For the weekend I treated myself to some tea, scented candles and a countryside magazine to get in the vibe of autumn. And I did some baking. And what would be autumn without cinnmon rolls?




 So I made some cinnmon rolls topped with butter, walnuts and a drizzle of frosting. You can also top them off with almonds, raisins, chocolate chips or anything you like. When you bake these cinnamon rolls, the whole house smells like a quiant bakery. Literally, it is so so good. These fluffy deliciousnesses will take you a bit of time to make but the outcome is defeniteley worth it. And as always it is not really difficould to make them.

 

  -Autumn-

The morns are meeker then they were,

The nuts are getting brown,

The berry's cheek is plumper,

The rose is out of town.

The maple wears a gayer scraf,

The field a scarlet gown.

Lest I should be old-fashioned,

i'll put a trinket on.

(Emily Dickinson)

 

     -A bed in the leaves-

I'll just lie there so nice and warm
  And look up in the sky
  And watch more leaves float down for me
  to rake up bye and bye

  

(Marian Kennedy)

  
 

 -Autumn Woods-

 I like the woods
 In autumn
When dry leaves hide the ground,
When the trees are bare
And the wind sweeps by
With a lonesome rushing sound

(James S. Tippett) 

 

Ingredients for the dough: 

               500g    all purpose flour
 1          egg

100g    sugar

100ml   milk

42g       freh yeast

50g       butter

 

               



 For the filling:

                 100g butter

                 150g sugar

              2-3 tsp cinnamon

              1/2 tsp  nutmeg

              as much walnuts as you like

 





Preparation:

Grab yourself a large mixing bowl and whisk your butter, milk and sugar together. Then, in a small bowl mix a little bit of  warm water with one teaspoon of sugar and crumble your fresh yeast in it and let that sit for two minutes. Now, stir it a litte bit and then pour it in your butter-milk mixture. After that, add all your flour and give it all agood stir until it is a smooth batter. If the dough is too stick, sprinkle some more flour on top and work it in with your hands. Then, take another large bowl, grese it with some vegetable oil and put your dough in it. Cover it with a kitchen towel and put it somewhere warm. I either place it near the heater or under my bedcover. Leave it there for a good two hours to rise.
After your dogh is really doubled in volume, you can roll it out until it is about 1 cm thick. Spread the softened butter evenly on top and then sprinkle the sugar-cinnamon-nutmeg mixture on top.
Now comes the only difficoud part: roll it as evenly and as thight as you can and stick the ends together with a little bit of water. Then, cut away the ends and then cut the roll in half and then cut it in half again and again until you get about 12 equal pieces. Grease a large baking pan with butter, sprinkle crushed walnuts over it and then place your cinnamon rolls on top of them and leave a little space inbetween. (If you want, you can also sprinkle more walnuts on top) Set them aside and let them rise for another good two hours so they double in volume again. And be patient, because the more time you give them to rise, the fluffyer they get.  When the two hours are over you are ready to brush the top with some melted butter and then bake them in the preheated oven by 170 °C for about 3o minutes until they are golden brown on top.

Now, I love to sit on the balkony wrapped in a cozy blanket and eat a warm cinnamon roll while reading a book or watching the birds in the trees. So grab your favourite book or a magazine, sit whereever you desire most and enjoy one of these fluffy cinnmon rolls. And after that you could go outside for a nice autumn walk and breathe in that cold, fresh air and as you are strolling around you can collekt some coloured leaves and chestnuts and use them as a decoration for your house or garden... Defeniteley enjoy autumn and the beautifuly environment it gives you.