Apple Cinnamon Buns

Last weekend we went to a food festival in Oxford. The whole day was really great, and a particular highlight was one of the talks I managed to sneak off to without the children. 

 It was with a man who has a company called "Bake with Jack", apparently he's on the TV but I've never seen him (not that I watch huge amounts these days so that's nothing to go by). 

He did a demo where he made some apple cinnamon buns, he was a great speaker, really engaging and funny. I also picked up quite a few tips with baking. 

The next day I then decided to make some, of course when baking I can't do much without my Middlest helping me! 

We used the recipe from the Bake With Jack website, really easy to follow. I have to admit the one tip he kept saying was to trust the recipe, if he hadn't have said that then I'm sure I would have added more flour when kneading. To start with it went really sticky and normally I would have added extra flour to stop it sticking, but we kept working it and within a few minutes it all pulled together and worked lovely, just kept using the scraper to clean the stone we were working on. 

We also used some of the first apples this year, mixed up with sugar and cinnamon to make the filling, we were pretty generous with this so there was plenty for each bun. 

Considering there was only 375g of flour in the recipe it was amazing to make 16 buns! 

This was a lovely lazy Sunday activity to do with my daughter, and something we could all enjoy eating! 

Looking forward to making them again - I think using canned apples would be great for this as well, so we could make them all year round. 

Anyone else enjoy making enriched dough goodies to snack on?