5 star rating I felt compelled to write this to counteract the negatives! I have made these buns regularly for my family for over a year and whenever there is a holiday or celebration and I ask people what they want to eat these ALWAYS are demanded. The dough recipe is perfect - yes it's very soft and until you learn how to manage it it can be difficult to work with. If you work on a large flexible silicone matt you won't have any problems. Use a flour dredger and around a tablespoon of flour while gently stretching and rolling the dough to shape. I do use less butter but that's health decision and find 50g perfect for my family. I also use 2 teaspoons of cinnamon and add some rum soaked raisins. But thats a flavour preference tweak and not a criticism of the recipe! use the flexible matt to help you roll it if you need to. Thank you to those who wrote and shared their creativity by posting the recipe in the first place x

3 star rating this is a great recipe except the filling is water.

2 star rating I'm normally very happy with recipes on this website, but this one really bombed...



Dough mixture was far too wet - I needed to add 2 cups of flour before I cold scrape it off my countertop.



Far too much melted butter for the filling (most of it ran off when I rolled it up). This also meant that it would not cut cleanly (but it sort of worked).



Far too little cinnamon and Honey - at least double both



8" tin not big enough



Baking time was also insufficient, the one in the middle wasn't cooked (probably because it was too wet)



That said, the nipper loved the final result (which had a lot of extra cinnamon, and was re-baked individually), so I will retry with a few adjustments!

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5 star rating OMG, i love this recipe

5 star rating Fantastic recipe mine turned out perfect, I made one batch & added apple sauce & they tasted really good.

Thank you.

4 star rating Tasty, but the 200c fan temp to start is a bad idea - I used the middle shelf and it still ended up with a bitter slightly blackened crust while the rest was fine. I thought this was to crisp the glaze but it didn’t work so I’d ignore and just cook at 180c fan for 20 mins.



One other point about the rolling out part - having either the thickness of the pastry or rough size of the rectangle would really help. I got 12 pieces from a roll 30 cm long but I think that might have been too many and maybe the pastry needed to be thicker? Rolls are v squashed looking but yummy. And can probably take a bit more cinnamon than just a teaspoon!

5 star rating Super easy to follow and totally delicious. Thank you!

5 star rating Love this recipe. Great results, better than a famous coffee shop according to my 18 year old son. Shame you can’t attach a photo to really prove the point. I add sultanas and drizzle icing over the top... Lush!!

1 star rating WOW!! Seriously... WOW!!

HOW CAN YOU GO SO WRONG???

This is the worst recipe EVER for Cinnamon Swirls.

This is a bread dough recipe with cinnamon flavour. If you ever went to scouts or guides and you wrapped dough round a stick and cooked in over a fire, then this is close to what you'll get with this recipe.

As someone else said, the recipe is way out, the mix is so wet given these measurements its like custard, I must have added another 50+ grams of flour before it started looking like dough and yes I did weigh the water correctly.

A cinnamon swirl is a pastry, not bread dough in my book.

Do not waste time on this recipe. All mine went in the bin, nothing like a cinnamon swirl! IT'S CINNAMON BREAD!

5 star rating When its cooked should I remove from the tin straight away or leave to cool a bit?

5 star rating Very clear and come out well.

Replaced the glaze with softened ginger preserve and peanut butter as that was available.

2 star rating I found the mixture to be extremely wet, not dry!

5 star rating Actually turned out amazing best recipe ever

5 star rating This recipe is phenomenal!!

Being Danish and having grown up with cinnamon swirls, these ones are very yummy. I have to admit that I did add a very light drizzle of icing sugar mixed with water.

5 star rating Love this recipe and so easy to make. Slightly adapted it and put sultanas in the middle on top of the butter and cinnamon. Also ddn’t have apricot jam so used orange marmalade to glaze.

Came out light and fluffy.