I love morning buns so much. I prefer their crunchy outsides to the better-known, and doughier, cinnamon roll. And for five years now, I've been buying morning buns at the French Bakery in Hyde Park nearly every week. I'd never tried to make them, even though it was clear they were puff pastry and probably pretty simple to prepare.
Until last weekend. And now I could make them every weekend, they are so simple indeed.
1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed (or homemade)
1 egg, beaten
cinnamon-sugar (about a cup?)
Preheat your oven to 400F and line a muffin tin (regular or mini size will work fine) with muffin cups. (Is that what those are called? It sounds so strange as I say it now.)
Lightly flour your work surface, then roll out the puff pastry until it's about 1/8" thick. With a very sharp knife or a pizza cutter, cut the puff pastry sheet in half lengthwise, then cut it into about 6-7 strips crosswise, for a total of 12-14 strips of dough.
Pick up a strip of dough and loosely roll it up. Pinch the seam on the outside to seal, then dip the dough roll in the egg wash, followed by the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Place this, spiral end up, in a muffin cup. Repeat with the remaining strips.
Bake for about 20 minutes, until the morning buns have puffed up and crisped on the outside.
nb. If you want bigger morning buns, just cut bigger strips!
5 comments:
OMG, those my favorite pastries from there, too! I'm totally going to make them tomorrow, yum! I can't believe they're this simple.
Well, these aren't quite as delicious as the Bon Jour ones, but they are pretty good!
Bless you! Thank you! I've been missing those exact pastries, too -- now I'll make 'em this week.
Thanks for the recipe... I made these this weekend and they were DELICIOUS! I loved how the cinnamon got crusty after baking. The whole pan went in a snap!
Thanks for the recipe! I, apparently, need to work on my rolling technique, but after I removed the burnt part, they were still super delicious.
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