One of the great joys of life has got to be sticky buns warm from the oven! Especially since they tease you as they bake, with that delicious aroma making its way through out the house…..sigh. Life is good! And someday’s it gets even better! Last month I attended the Big Summer Potluck and one of the sponsors was Musselmans , and one of the gifts we received was a large jar of apple butter. Being a southern boy, I was raised on apple butter and biscuits, so I do know the joys of apple butter! I had been thinking of making a batch of brioche dough, and one of my favorite things to do with it is to make cinnamon sticky buns. But you know as well as I do that bloggers can’t keep making the same things over and over again no matter how much we like them, so I started thinking of a twist I could add to those delicious buns. It didn’t take too long to remember that there was a jar of apple butter in my pantry, just begging to be opened and devoured, and that I also had a jar of Amelia’s Cinnamon Pecans that would go perfectly with my apple butter buns. I don’t know if you’ve ever made brioche dough, but the recipe I use from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day has got to be the easiest brioche recipe I’ve ever used. It’s basically fool proof, and makes an incredible […] Read More...
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