Heart Shaped Cinnamon Buns

Ingredients

• 1 kg plain white flour
• 2 pinch salt
• 1 ½ tsp cardamom
• 1 pack dry yeast
• 1 x eggs
• 240 g butter
• 6 dl milk
• 100 g room temperature butter
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 2 tbsp brown sugar
• 1 ½ tsp cinnamon
• 150 g powdered sugar
• 1 tsp beetroot powder
• 20 g sprinkles
• 180 g sugar
• 1 tsp cinnamon

Method

1. Mix together wheat flour, 180g sugar, salt, 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon, cardamom and yeast in a baking bowl.
2. Melt 240g. butter in a saucepan. Push the saucepan to the side and add the milk and eggs.
3. When the milk mixture is 34-35 degrees, mix it together with the dry ingredients.
4. Knead the dough for approx. 15 minutes on low speed with a food processor.
5. Put the dough in a warm place to rise for 1.5 hours.
6. Roll out the dough into a rectangle.
7. Filling: Mix butter at room temperature with sugar and cinnamon.
8. Spread the filling over half the dough and fold the other half over the filling.
9. Knead the mass into a rectangle of 30 cm x 50 cm.
10. Divide the dough into stripes and roll each outer part towards the middle so that you get a heart.
11. Place them on a baking tray and let them rise for 30-45 minutes.
12. Roast in the oven at 200 degrees for approx. 10 minutes (depending on the oven)
13. Mix icing sugar with food color and add water until you get a suitably thick icing. Decorate with cake sprinkles.