Dog Team Sticky Buns Recipes

DOG TEAM STICKY BUNS

Steps:

• Dissolve yeast in warm water; let stand 5 minutes.
• Mix together shortening, sugar, salt, egg, mashed potato; add dissolved yeast.
• Mix in flour to make a soft dough.
• Turn on to floured board, knead until smooth and elastic, adding more flour if necessary.
• May refrigerate overnight now.
• Roll out dough into a 9*16 rectangle and butter generously with melted butter.
• Sprinkle dough with mixture of cinnamon and sugar; roll toward one long edge.
• Slice into 1 inch thick pieces.
• Butter a 9*13 baking pan.
• Mix maple syrup with water; pour into pan; sprinkle nuts over bottom of pan.
• Place slices of dough, cut side down, on top of syrup mixture.
• Let rise at room temperature until doubled.
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Bake about 30 minutes.
• Invert onto platter or foil to cool if you like your sticky buns gooey; Invert onto a rack if you don't like goo. Either way, be careful as syrup is very hot.

DOG TEAM STICKY BUNS

Steps:

• 1. Boil potatoes until tender in 2 cups water. 2. Drain potatoes, reserving 1 ½ cups of the liquid. 3. Mash potatoes. 4. Stir together 1 cup of the mashed potatoes, 1/2 cup of the sugar and the salt. 5. Allow mixture to cool to lukewarm. 6. Add yeast, eggs and the reserved cooking liquid, mixing well. 7. Add flour to form a wet, sticky dough. 8.Knead on a lightly floured surface until dough is smooth and elastic. 9. Place in a lightly oiled bowl. 10. Let rise in a warm place until doubled in bulk. 11. Punch down and refrigerate until chilled, about 1 hour. 12. Butter 2 13×9 pans. 13. Spread brown sugar thickly on the bottom of the pans. 14. Pour enough water on the brown sugar to form a thick, wet paste. 15. (Place walnuts on brown sugar paste.) 16. Roll out the dough into a 1/2-inch-thick rectangle on a well-floured surface. 17. Stir together the remaining 2 1/4 cups sugar and cinnamon. 18. Combine the sugar mixture and the very soft butter. 19. Spread butter mixture thinly over dough, leaving a strip along one long edge free. 20. Roll up dough, starting at the long edge opposite the clean edge. 21. Seal the roll by pinching and pressing the clean edge into the dough. 22. Cut the roll in half with the dental floss by slipping the floss under the roll, crossing the ends of the floss over and pulling it through the dough. 23. Cut each of the halves in half, and continue this way until you have slices that are 1/2 inch to 1-1/2 inches thick (depending on your preference). 24. Arrange slices cut-side-up in the pans so they are almost touching. 25. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled in bulk, about half an hour. 26. Preheat oven to 350ºF (175ºC). 27. Bake sticky buns until golden brown, 20 to 30 minutes. 28.Immediately un-mold sticky buns onto two cookies sheets.

CHEF JOHN'S STICKY BUNS

Steps:

• Combine warm water and milk in a mixing bowl and sprinkle yeast over. Let sit until frothy, about 10 minutes.
• Add sugar, egg, and melted butter for dough to the yeast mixture. Mix with a whisk before adding 75% of the flour with the salt. Mix, adding more flour, until a very soft and sticky dough is formed. Let knead in the mixer for about 5 minutes. Cover and let rise in a warm spot until doubled in size, about 1 hour.
• While dough is rising, preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Generously butter a 9x13-inch metal baking pan.
• Combine brown sugar, white sugar, salt, melted butter, and water for topping in a bowl. Mix thoroughly until smooth. Pour into the prepared pan and spread evenly to cover the bottom. Scatter pecans evenly over the top. Set aside until needed.
• Combine brown sugar and cinnamon in a bowl for filling; mix until thoroughly combined. Set aside until needed.
• Transfer dough onto a lightly floured surface. Lightly flour your hands and press and stretch the dough to form a 18x15-inch rectangle. Sprinkle cinnamon-sugar mixture evenly over the dough to the edges, leaving a 2-inch border along the edges. Lightly press the sugar mixture into the dough with your hands.
• Roll the dough into a cylinder with lightly floured hands starting with the edge closest to you; try not to roll too tightly. Finish shaping the cylinder as uniformly as possible, seam-side down. Lightly score the roll with the edge of a knife to indicate 12 equal portions.
• Slide a piece of string or floss under the dough, lining it up at the first knife mark. Cross the ends of the string over the top and pull in opposite directions to cut through the dough. Continue with remaining dough.
• Transfer buns into the pan with topping, making 3 rows of 4 buns. If one side of a bun has more dough than another, place with the doughier side up in the pan. Tent the pan loosely with foil and let rise until buns have almost doubled in size, 45 minutes to 1 hour. Save foil in case you need it towards the end of baking time.
• Bake in the preheated oven until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center of a bun reaches 200 degrees F (93 degrees C), about 35 minutes. If the tops are getting too browned, loosely tent the pan with foil for the last 5 to 10 minutes of baking time.
• Remove from the oven onto a wire rack and let cool for 5 minutes. Turn pan over carefully onto a serving platter. Use a spoon to transfer any sticky topping that has remained in the pan. Let cool and serve warm or at room temperature.