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Giant dutch oven cinnamon bun

Easy cake with a prefect crust full of spicy flavors and mois core
Prep Time13 hrs
Cook Time1 hr
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Norwegian
Keyword: cinnamon, dutch oven
Servings: 1

Equipment

  • Mixing bowl
  • Kitchen scale
  • Spoon
  • spatula
  • Kitchen brush
  • standing mixer
  • Grating iron
  • Dutch oven with a lid (must be oven proof)

Ingredients

  • 1 dough Overnight sweet dough
  • 50 gr Butter Melted
  • 4 tbsp Cinamon
  • 100 gr Marzipan Frozen
  • 50 gr Caster sugar

Instructions

  • Sett the oven to max temperature (ours is 250 degrees C) with your dutch oven and lid inside.
  • Start the night before you want to make the cake and follow the recipe for the overnight sweet dough. But add 20 gr of peeled crushed green cardamom to the dry ingredients.
  • Take the doug out of the fridge and roll out the dough to a rectangle of about 25 mm hight and 1cm thick. The length of the dough will be about 130 cm.
  • Melt the 50 gr of butter and brush the surface of the dough rectangle with butter.
  • Mix the cinnamon and sugar together and sprinkle on top of the butter.
  • Grate the marzipan over the sugar and cinnamon.
  • Roll up the dough from the short side this will make a huge roll.
  • Add a sheet of bake-proof paper to a bowl or proofing basket and place the dough on top of it with one of the spiral sides facing up.
  • Cover the dough with a tea towel and leave to proof for on hour or until it passes the proof test.
  • When the dough is finished proofing take the dutch oven out of the oven and lift the dough into it by lifting in the baking paper.
  • Place the lid back on the dutch oven and place the whole thing back into the oven.
  • Leave the cinnamon roll to bake for 30 minutes.
  • After 30 minutes remove the lid and turn down the temperature to 210 degrees C. Let the cinnamon roll bake until it reaches a core temperature of 96 degrees C. This usually takes about 30 minutes.
  • Take the cinnamon roll out of the dutch oven and leave to cool on a cooling rack until completely cool. Voila! your done!

Notes

We like to not add to much filling to our buns but if you like buns with a lot of filling you can increase the amounts of butter, sugar, cinnamon and marizipan.