Cinnamon Twists
Ingredients
Dough:
- 6 cups flour
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 tsp salt (we used fine sea salt)
- 2 eggs
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine
- 1 ½ cups water
- 2 tbsp dry yeast or 2 oz fresh yeast
Topping for Bowl 1
- 4 cups sugar
- 4 Tbsp vanilla sugar
- 2 ½ Tbsp cinnamon
Topping for Bowl 2
- 1 ¼ cups (2 ½ sticks) butter or margarine, melted
Instructions
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine all dough ingredients. Knead until fully combined (the dough will be sticky). Cover with plastic wrap and let rise for 1 ½ - 2 hours, until approximately doubled in size.
- In a large bowl, combine all “Bowl 1” topping ingredients. Add melted butter to a second bowl.
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Divide dough into 5 parts. Roll each part into a rectangle 3-4” wide. Cut each rectangle into 1” strips.
- Dip each strip into melted butter individually, then dip the strip into the cinnamon sugar mixture, while twisting.
- Place twists close together onto a lined baking sheet. The full recipe should yield approximately 1 ½ baking sheets of twists. Bake for 25 minutes.
