These Cinnamon Twist Pastries are not as bulky and dense as your typical cinnamon roll. The dough turns out a soft and tender pastry with just a little bit of cinnamon tucked into the twists. A light drizzle of glaze adds sweetness on top.
The recipe starts with the dough. Sometimes I use my KitchenAid Mixer to do the kneading for me, but I’m without a mixer at the moment. I stood and kneaded the dough on my counter until it was smooth and elastic. I actually rather liked doing the kneading. It felt… homesteady. I might even do it again. If all goes well, the dough is plopped into a bowl, and after an hour or so, it rises to the top of the bowl. Two important success factors: newly purchased yeast and warm (not too hot and not too cold) water.
Follow those directions up there: Roll out the dough, brush with butter, sprinkle cinnamon/sugar, then fold the dough in half and seal the edges.
Slice strips of dough with that cinnamony sugar peeking out the middle. I use my rockstar pizza cutter.
Carefully move the strips to a baking sheet (either greased or lined with silpat mats or parchment).
Give each strip of dough a few twists!
Bake 15 minutes, and out come the pastries.
Drizzle the sweet vanilla glaze on top. You can choose to be generous with the glaze (and make more to accommodate that), or you can just drizzle a thin glaze on top. This picture here is what your pastries will look like if you have my husband do the drizzling (smiling)…
…but here’s more what they’re supposed to look like. Just a nice back and forth drizzle. Apparently it’s a “skill.” SOOOO, these made a nice Sunday AM breakfast treat. We all loved the soft texture of the pastry and enjoyed the fact that it was not completely laden with butter and goo. I wrapped these individually in foil and froze them. They thawed nicely at room temperature and were able to be enjoyed on a spur-of-the-moment cinnamon-twist craving. Plus, the freezer is a safer place for these to hang out, don’t you think? If things like this hang out on my counter too long, I pull a piece off, and then I pull off another piece and another… until I just give up and eat the whole thing. Before you know it… 3 pastries gone! NOT GOOD! 🙂
