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We offer your attention a recipe of cinnamon rolls, which, with their taste and aroma, will hardly leave your family and guests who have glanced at a cup of tea indifferent.

Ruddy, fragrant, appetizing cinnamon rolls like you and your guests.

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Recipe for cinnamon rolls – ingredients:

•  500 g of flour,
•  200 ml of milk,
•  100 g of butter,
•  10 g of yeast,
•  100 g of sugar,
•  1 egg,
•  2 tbsp. tablespoons of cinnamon,
• pinch of salt.

The recipe for buns with cinnamon – cooking:

Spread in warm milk 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sugar, yeast, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of flour and leave for 15-20 minutes.

Add the flour, salt, then 3/4 of the softened butter and knead the dough.

The dough should turn out soft and gentle.

Leave the dough under the film in a warm place for 1-1.5 hours to make it come up.

Mix cinnamon with sugar.

Once again, dough the dough and roll it into a rectangular shape.

Leave 1 cm from one edge of the dough and evenly spread the entire surface of the dough with the remaining melted butter and sprinkle with a mixture of cinnamon and sugar.

Fold the dough into a roll, fastening the remaining unshielded edge.

Cut the roll into rolls of the same thickness.

Lay the cinnamon rolls on the baking paper and the oiled baking tray about 5 cm apart so that when baking the buns do not stick together.

Cover the rolls with a towel and leave for 20-30 minutes for lifting.

Then grease each bun with a beaten egg.

Bake buns with cinnamon in a preheated oven to 200-210 ° C for 20-25 minutes until golden brown.

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Bon Appetit!

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Mixing Bowls

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Specialty Measuring Spoons

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First out Pie Spatula

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