Swedish cinnamon buns

Swedish cinnamon buns (kanelbullar)
Total time: 2-2,5 hours. Makes about 44 cinnamon rolls.

Ingredients

• 0,5 l milk (17.6 oz, not fluid! or slightly more than 2 cups)
• 2 tsp active dry yeast
• 1,5 stick butter (170 g)
• a pinch of salt
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 tsp ground cardamom
• 1 egg
• 800 g (28.2 oz) all-purpose flour

Filling

• 1,5 stick (170 g) of butter, room temperature
• 1.5 tbsp ground cinnamon
• ¾ cup sugar

Toppings
1 egg
sliced almonds

Instructions
Heat up the milk to about 110-115 °F. Dissolve the active dry yeast in the milk and let it sit for a few minutes. Melt the butter and mix in with the milk. Add a pinch of salt, sugar, cardamom, egg and flour. Mix to a dough. Cover the bowl with a kitchen towel and let rise until double the size, about 1 hour. Mix the ingredients for the filling in a bowl and set aside in room temperature.

Roll out half of the dough (unless you have a really large working bench; then you can roll out the whole thing) to a large, thin rectangle. Spread half of the filling over the rectangle (or all of it if you rolled out all of the dough), then either roll up the dough to a cylinder and cut the dough in half an inch thick slices, or make these twirly tops. Place the cinnamon rolls in muffin forms and put them on an oven tray. Now roll out the second half of the dough and do the same thing.

Let the rolls rise for another 30 minutes (up to 1 hour is okay) while you preheat the oven to 460°F. Brush the rolls with egg and sprinkle some sliced almonds on top. Bake for about 10-12 minutes until they are golden brown.

Let cool on a rack with a kitchen towel on top. Now treat yourself to a Swedish fika (coffee break) with a cup of coffee or a cold glass of milk