When I’m looking to impress, I whip up a festive brunch menu featuring bacon and egg casserole, baked donuts and amazingly delicious sticky buns. These sweet rolls are as good as anything you’d get at a bakery!
Sticky Buns Ingredients
To make sticky buns you will need for the dough, yeast, warm water, warm milk, sugar, butter, salt, eggs and all purpose flour. For the filling you will need butter, granulated sugar, dark brown sugar and cinnamon. For the topping make sure to have chopped pecans, butter, dark brown sugar, cream, honey and salt. These sticky buns are a favorite breakfast recipe. If you want to see more of my favorites, check out my kids breakfast ideas featuring baked oatmeal, buttermilk waffles and French toast casserole.
How Do You Make Sticky Buns?
Sticky buns have three parts; dough, filling and topping. You will want to start by making the dough to give it time to rise. Place warm water in the bowl of a stand mixer. Add yeast and let it dissolve. Add warm milk, sugar, butter, salt, eggs and flour. Beat them together until a dough forms. Use a dough hook to knead the dough. Put the dough in a large bowl and cover it in plastic wrap so it can rise.
For the filling, mix together cinnamon, granulated sugar, brown sugar and butter in a medium bowl. After your dough rises roll it out in a rectangle. Cover the dough with that sweet filling. Roll the dough into a log and cut circles out of the log with a sharp knife.
To make that sticky, nutty topping that everyone loves, just melt some butter in a pan and add brown sugar, cream, honey and salt. Bring the topping to a boil, then simmer it for a couple of minutes. Pour most of that topping in the bottom of your baking pan, sprinkle in some pecans and place the rolls on top. After the rolls have risen a little more, bake them until golden. Once they are out of the oven, flip them over. Drizzle your extra topping over the rolls and you have the gooiest, most delicious sticky buns of all time!
Tips For The Perfect Dish
You can make the dough the night before and store it in the fridge. The yeast dough will rise quicker on a warm day, and slower on a cool day. The rise times in this recipe are approximate. Make sure to keep an eye on the dough to watch for it to double depending on the temperature of your kitchen. You can bake one batch of rolls in a 9″ x 13″ pan, or bake two smaller batches in 9″ round pans.
Sticky Buns Flavor Variations
This is a classic recipe; however, you can easily customize it to your tastes.
Spices: Try adding other spices to the filling such as ginger, nutmeg, allspice or ground cloves. Raisins: You can add 1/2 cup of raisins with the pecans in the topping. You can also add raisins to the filling. Citrus: Feel free to add orange or lemon zest to the topping for a brighter citrus flavor. Nuts: Not a fan of pecans? You can use other nuts such as chopped walnuts or sliced almonds.
This recipe is simply amazing. The dough is light and fluffy, the filling is sweet and luscious and the topping has just the right amount of gooey caramel. Give this recipe a try and you can proudly serve these buns to your friends and family.
