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Kanelbulle

Name: Kanelbulle
Total time: 150 min
Yield: Serves 12
Cuisine: Sweden
Ingredients: 400g Bread flour; 2 tsp Dry yeast; 200ml Milk; 100g Butter; 80g Sugar; 1/2 tsp Salt; 1 tsp Cardamom powder; 1 tbsp Cinnamon powder; 1 Egg; To taste Pearl Sugar (or coarse sugar)

Dessert

⏱ 150 min

👥 Serves 12

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Cardamom-scented dough rolled with cinnamon butter and topped with pearl sugar — the star of Swedish fika.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

The kanelbulle (cinnamon bun) is an essential sweet bun for Swedish fika, the custom of pausing for coffee and something sweet. Cardamom is kneaded into the dough, cinnamon, sugar, and butter are rolled inside, and the buns are shaped into knots and topped with white pearl sugar before baking. October 4 is Cinnamon Bun Day.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At 3 p.m. in an office, colleagues gather around fresh cinnamon buns and coffee for a relaxed fika.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 12)

Bread flour 400g
Dry yeast 2 tsp
Milk 200ml
Butter 100g
Sugar 80g
Salt 1/2 tsp
Cardamom powder 1 tsp
Cinnamon powder 1 tbsp
Egg 1
Pearl Sugar (or coarse sugar) To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Dissolve the yeast and 30g sugar in warm milk, add the bread flour, salt, cardamom, and 50g melted butter, and knead.
Let rise in a warm place for 1 hour until doubled.
Mix the remaining (room-temperature) butter, sugar, and cinnamon to make the filling.
Roll the dough into a rectangle, spread with the filling, fold in thirds, cut into long strips, and twist into knots.
Arrange in paper cups or on a baking sheet, rise 30 minutes, brush with beaten egg, and top with pearl sugar.
Bake at 220°C for 10–12 minutes.

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