Korvapuusti, Finnish Cinnamon Rolls

[Mike Nolan]

These sound like they'd be fun to make, the dough is REALLY sweet, 18% sugar! I'd have to ask my wife if she like cardamom in sweet breads, though. (A friend of hers used to bring us cardamom bread at Easter.)

If I make them, I'll probably make just a half-recipe.

Finnish Cinnamon Rolls

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[BakerAunt]

I love cardamom. My husband does not, but if it is not the main flavor, he will eat what I bake with it.

Those Finnish buns look so good, but after noting the amount of butter, I will have to enjoy them vicariously if Mike bakes them. I'm hoping to make my Swedish Almond ring this year and use a can of almond paste that I have. I can't cut the butter in the filling, but I'll try oil in the bread.

[skeptic7]

Those do look very good. I wish I had one on hand. I wonder how big they are. I don't remember a ruler in the picture.

[aaronatthedoublef]

The pearl sugar looks like a nice alternative to the heavy white frosting we have. Too often people use it to hide a mediocre roll underneath.

[Mike Nolan]

I liked the pearl sugar part myself. As to size, she's holding it in the palm of her hand so it is not huge, she's cutting the dough basically in 4 cm lengths.

If I make them, I'll probably leave out the cardamom, though, not one of our favorite spices.

It was the shape that intrigued me, most cinnamon rolls are baked so the roll is vertical, these are horizontal. That means twice as much of the spiral is exposed.

[aaronatthedoublef]

I didn't notice that! That is cool. And they appear to be cut differently too. If you cooked American style cinnamon rolls that way and managed to keep them from falling over everything would probably leak. This looks a little more croissant like.

[Mike Nolan]

They're cut at an angle so each one is sort of a truncated triangle, then squished down in the middle with a finger so the spirals bulge out a bit.

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