Sticky Buns of Tradition

Every Thanksgiving and Christmas Mama Hochhalter makes homemade sticky buns (and Mama Maple makes cinnamon rolls.) This year, AJ and I decided to learn so we could always continue the tradition. This batch came from the fabulous homemade sourdough bread starter 2Bit swears by. (As you know, a starter is always available to you)

What You Need: 

-Dough from 2Bit's bread starter OR frozen dough you can get in frozen food aisle at the grocery

-Butter to spread over rolled out dough

-Cinnamon and sugar to spread over rolled out dough

-Nuts (optional but definitely scrumptious)

For the "Goop":

-1 c. butter

-2 c. brown sugar

-8 tbsp corn syrup

-Melt ingredients in saucepan on medium heat until contents are smooth. Do not overcook as it can get too hard when it cools. It's called "goop" for a reason.

-Once cooked, pour in large pan that the rolls will rise and bake in. (Pictures further down)

Roll out dough. It takes a while so be patient and prepare yourself for quite the arm work-out...

Spread the melted butter over the dough with a brush and then cover it with the cinnamon-sugar mixture.

It should be about 1/2 inch thick.

Roll it up as evenly as possible and make a 'u' shape to slice the rolls.

It should make about 20. 

Gotta love the swirl

This was the second batch and they were a lot smaller and thinner, but perfect size once they rose over night. ***See bottom of post--Unless making for a large family, you can reduce the goop recipe down and omit the second batch. 

See how the goop is at the bottom of the pan. Half of the rolls will have nuts and half won't, for those crazy nut haters.

Place rolls atop the goop

The biggest beggar of all...

Cover with a towel and let rise over night (8 hours).

Preheat oven to 375 and bake for 30 minutes. Spread a large sheet of foil on your counter. Once buns are golden, take out of oven and immediately invert onto foil.

Coffee and hot cross sticky buns make quite the tradition!!

****This was for a large batch, so for a smaller batch of goop do 1/4 c. butter, 1/2 c. brown sugar and 2 tbsp corn syrup. And use just half the dough.