How To Make: Cinnamon Buns - a classic Scandinavian recipe

Ingredients

• 1 quantity Cinnamon buns dough (see below)
• Plain flour (to dust the work surface for the dough)
• 13 grams Dried yeast or fresh yeast, 25g *
• 250 ml Whole milk (heated to 36–37°C (97–99°F))
• 80 grams Butter (melted and cooled slightly)
• 40 grams Caster sugar
• 400 -500 grams White strong flour
• 2 tsp Ground cardamom
• 1 tsp Salt
• 1 Egg (beaten)
• Flaked almonds
• 80 grams plus 1 tbsp Butter (at room temperature)
• 1 tsp Plain flour
• 1 tbsp Ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp Ground cardamom
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla sugar
• 80 grams Sugar
• Egg for brushing (For the topping you will need two baking sheets, greased and lined with baking parchment)
• Syrup (see below)
• 3 tbsp Nibbed ‘pearl’ sugar or chopped, toasted nuts (For the syrup)
• 6 tbsp golden syrup
• water (heated in a saucepan)