"Land of Nod" Cinnamon Bun

I had this a long time ago. My mom's coworker made it and shared it with us. Though she gave the recipe and it was very easy recipe, we never made it. Not sure why.

I recognized this recipe in my recipe book The Best of the Best and More. I finally made it. This bun is sometimes known a Monkey Bread.



This recipe is not 100% homemade from scratch but it's freshly made. It's very easy and was a nice breakfast, especially when it came out of the oven!!!

Bread making

I'm so into making bread nowadays. I make it once every one or two weeks. I find it very relaxing and rewarding. As I said in a previous post, I don't buy bread anymore. Usually I have to freeze bread and take out as needed.

Bread
So here is my Chinese baked bread dough that I learned from Mrs. Chiu at VSB. She introduced me to bread flour and Chinese wheat flour. I had some red bean paste and made red bean paste flower bun and regular bread. This is a nice rich bread, as it uses milk, butter AND egg.

Buns

Went to a Bread making class in Cantonese. It was fun because teacher is very interesting and direct. The bread was really good. The secret is using bread flour. Anyways, here is a pic of 7 buns I made in the second class. They include a Mexican bun, Pineapple bun, Corn Beef Braid, Coconut roll, Lotus paste piggy, Taro bun and Cream spiral.

This other one is all the buns I made at home including Kwai Fei Bun (BBQ pork filling with Mexican bun topping). Now I can make it VERY VERY quickly! No longer have to buy bread anymore!