As I've probably mentioned, I've only recently really gotten into baking. As a cook I'm pretty terrible, almost horrible. Even my boyfriend sometimes skips dinner fearing for his safety. Partly the reason for sucking so hard in cooking is the fact that I don't really care much for it. I prefer simple and quick what comes to food but baking, that's a different story. I can use hours just to get make the perfect cake. Food is mostly just fuel to me but baking, cakes, muffins, brownies, mm-mmm! All things baked and tasty are really my cup of tea.

This other day I got a sudden urge to have some cinnamon buns. They sell the nordic versions in Ikea, but yeah, the gluten. So off to google I go to search for instructions to make my own. gluten free. There are several ways to make some, but I have little eye to the architecture of the traditional nordic cinnamon buns so I made mine more as cinnamon rolls. Simple and effective.

The buns turned out rather delicious, but unbelievably ugly :D. I was a bit too stingy on the egg you paint the buns with before you bake them and some of them turned paler then others. But the taste is what matters and the taste was just right. Made me feel like home, a warm cinnamon bun and a cup of tea. Just like back at home!

If you like a good cinnamon bun, try these out. I used Schär gluten free universal flour, but almost any smooth flour is good. Trying different brands is the best way to find your favorite.


Here comes the how to:

3 dl milk/water
½ piece (25g) of fresh yeast
2½ tsp psylliumi-ksantaan mix
1 tsp salt
1 dl sugar
1 egg
½ spoon of cardamom
7-8 dl gluten free flour
100 g soft butter/margarine

Filling; butter, cinnamon ja sugar.

Let the yeast melt into warm water/milk, then add the psyllium-ksantan mix, let it sit for a minute.
Then mix in the salt, sugar, cardamom, egg and half of the flour while mixing. Then add the soft butter and add rest of the flour. Mix 5-3 more minutes and mix it like you mean it!

Then roll the dough into rectangle shape, take the butter from the fridge and slice some thin slices out of it with the cheese grinder. Sprinkle them all over the dough and then spread the butter with a knife. Add a generous amount of cinnamon and sugar, then roll the dough into a tight roll. Cut out some rolls and let them sit in a warm place for 30min. Warm the oven to 225 celisus, paint the buns with raw egg and then bake the buns for 15-20 minutes or until they're nicely brownish.

Simple and good!

I foud the instructions here, but I adjusted it to fit my purposes.