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By Popular Demand
By Moriah on December 1st, 2008
Okay, okay, okay. I will give you the recipe for these rolls I made for Thanksgiving Day breakfast. But first, a little history.
My grandmother is Swedish. She made (makes still? I don’t know) the very long and intricate original version of the recipe I’m about to give you. It’s an all-day event and very easy to mess up and ruin completely. Which, after spending all that time, effort and energy, is just depressing.
However, I’m a modern-day mama with modern conveniences at my fingertips. I do not bake bread that I’ve kneaded by hand. I spend most of my time chasing after toddlers and cleaning crayon off the walls. So I use my bread machine to mix dough for me and we get homemade goodies that way.
A few years ago I adapted my grandmother’s recipe with a cinnamon roll recipe that worked well in the bread machine. Since then I’ve only baked these buns with bread machine dough.
(Perhaps sacrilege. I don’t care. It’s this method or nothing in my current stage of life.)
So, without further ado…
SWEDISH COFFEE BUNS
(the bread machine version)
(the bread machine version)
Pour into the bread pan (in order): 1 cup milk, 1/3 cup melted-but-not-hot butter, 2 eggs, 1/3 cup sugar, and 1/2 tsp salt.
Place 4 1/4 cups all-purpose flour into a bowl and wisk 3/4 – 1 tsp ground cardamom into the flour. This is very important. If you just dump the cardamom into the bread machine without mixing it into the flour first, it will be very clumpy. Trust me.
Pour flour mix into the bread machine pan on top of all the other stuff. Make a little crater with your finger in the flour and pour 1 package active dry yeast into it. (I personally use Rapid Rise. I’m patient like that.)
Plug in the machine and hit ‘dough’ setting and press ‘start.’ Mine takes an hour and a half.
Once the dough is finished, you’ll grab small handfuls of dough and roll them out like snakes. Maybe 10-12 inches long, 3/4″ thick. With your non-dominant hand, pinch the middle of the dough snake and hold it up so the two ends dangle down. Grab one of the ends with the other hand and swirl them around each other so you have a twist.
Loop the entire twist around itself about two times, or until the end can be tucked underneath the roll. Pinch it into the bottom of the roll or they will unwind.
Dip the tops generously into melted butter (that you already had prepared on the stove, right? Ahem.) and then roll the buttered tops around in a cinnamon and sugar mix. I think the ratio is a cup of sugar to a teaspoon of cinnamon, mixed well.
Place sugar-side-up into a casserole pan… usually 3 to a row, 4 if they’re small. Place covered with a tea towel in a warm oven to rise again – they should double – for 30-45 minutes.
Before doubling:
(Side note. See that one in the middle, up close? The bottom didn’t get sufficiently pinched so you can see what I mean by unwinding.)
After doubling, about to bake:
Remove the tea towel (do NOT forget) and bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for 20-25 minutes or until golden. Drizzle with powdered sugar icing while still hot. (About 1 cup powdered sugar to 1 tablespoon water.)
Best eaten very warm with a pat of butter. These are probably the single most poignant food memory I have as a child… My mom made these every Christmas and every Thanksgiving.
And occasionally, even upon request.
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Yumm-O! So…does your mom adjust for high altitude? Because I have trouble with breads where I live.
I can smell the cardamom from here! And as someone who has made and eaten these, they are delish!
Yay, thanks for posting, those look beautiful. I think we will stop by today and try some, what with it snowing up here, and all…kidding, I’m still in Jammies.
Also I saw on Twitter about the Advent Calender….my boys still think I have it hidden somewhere, but in all the Thanksgiving travel madness I have nothing! It’s so sad, they don’t even know yet.
Maybe I can throw them off if I bake something yummy like this!
Wow…THAT looks delicious! I can almost smell ‘em ;) :).
My mouth is watering! I can almost taste those. They look marvelous!
Love your blog! Found you thanks that CWO site.
thank you, THANK YOU!! I have been considering getting a bread machine for a couple of years, now there’s a recepie to justify it :) :) I will definitely try it for Christmas if we don’t have our baby by than :)
Well dang, now I need a bread machine.
Okay now – you must submit a video of all that twisting/looping/tucking action. I don’t think I can do it.
OK,those are absolutely gorgeous. Is that Grandmother Laberta? I am Heather’s mom. You might love the turkey place cards John and I made for our Thanksgiving hosts. Check out my blog.
I love your blog. Heather introduced it to me and I am a regular fan.
these look amazing… how could i have missed out on this part of a swedish heritage for so long?!
Thanks Moriah, I’ve been meaning to get the bread machine version from you. I didn’t get a chance to make these this thanksgiving. Ran out of time. I will have to just give them a try on a non-holiday. Happy December 1st.
YUMMY!!!
Drooling. Seriously. Drooling.
Is that 1 and 3/4 teaspoon ground cardamom? Or just 1 teaspoon cardamom, if so what is the 3/4 with? Sorry for the question. Tim’s whole family is coming up for Christmas and this looks fun to try. Thank you!