A few months ago my friend Crystal shared her butterhorn recipe. We enjoyed them immensely. I took them one step further and added chocolate to the dough. I also adapted the recipe for the bread machine.
Last freezer cooking day, I experimented with the dough once again and came up with an easy cinnamon twist that is bound to be a great addition to your weekend brunch table. It’s not overly sweet, but you could notch it up a bit if you want by adding more cinnamon sugar.
This is a great make-ahead recipe and you can even use the dough three different ways: make regular butterhorns, make the chocolate butterhorns and then make 1 or 2 cinnamon twist loaves.
Cinnamon Twist Loaves (makes 4 large braids)
Dough:
1 cup milk
1/2 cup butter, cubed
2 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
4 – 4 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 Tablespoons dry yeast, heaping
Braids:
1/2 cup cinnamon sugar
Combine all dough ingredients in the pan of your bread machine according to the manufacturer’s directions. Set on the dough cycle and start machine. When the machine beeps, remove dough from pan and divide it into four equal parts.
Roll each part into a 12-inch oval and sprinkle 2 Tablespoons cinnamon sugar over the surface of each oval. Slice each oval into three strips, leaving the top edge attached. Braid the dough, bringing an outside strand to the middle and alternating from side to side. Press points at the end to seal and tuck under slightly.
If preparing ahead, place braids on parchment lined baking sheet and freeze. Once frozen, place in freezer bags and store in the freezer until needed.
To bake: Grease a baking sheet or line with parchment or a silpat mat. Place cinnamon braids on prepared sheet. Allow to rise for 90 minutes, or five hours if frozen, or until doubled in size. Preheat oven to 375 ° and bake braids for 12-15 minutes, or until lightly browned. Cool on wire racks.
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Did you use SAF yeast for this? I have been using that in my bread machine, so I’m wondering if that would be the correct measurement or if I’d need to adapt it a little when using SAF. Thanks for all the great bread machine recipes!
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Jessica Reply:
September 6th, 2010 at 9:14 am
yes, that’s what I get from Costco.
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Almost sounds like Challah Bread. Roll your loaves in a mixture of seeds before cooking. Will give it a flavorful crunch.
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Jessica Reply:
September 8th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
That sounds like a great idea! We’ll make this dough super, uber, multi purpose.
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my husband and i love the butterhorns & these look amazing too!
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Beautiful loaves. Braiding really worked.
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Jessica Reply:
September 8th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
It was really fun to make, too.
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I’ve been searching for a good dough to make hot pockets with. Do you think this one would work well?
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Saralyn Reply:
October 9th, 2010 at 6:15 pm
@Jeanne Hounsell, I would say “no” to the hot pockets because this is a sweet dough. It would make yummy fried pies, though!
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Love your recipe for the butterhorns – started out with the chocolate chips just along the top rolled up and plain butterhorns (brushed with egg wash sometimes) I’ve now used it to make mini-cinnamon rolls by spreading with butter & cinnamon-sugar and baking either 1 large (cut sides on side) or 3 smaller pieces (cut side up) in each muffin tin and yesterday added some almond extract to the dough and brushed with butter with almond extract & brown sugar and then covered with almond slices rolled up…topped with more almonds & some swedish sugar (like little sugar balls…not remembering correct name right now!)…can’t wait to try the bread!! Thanks!
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Hi all. I am experimenting my bread machine doug cycle. I have already made some pizzas, tried sweet pastry doug (that didnt xcame out right). Hope this pecipe will work as desribed. Although I dont have a brown sugar, will try to use plain sugar and cinnamon mix and egg for dipping. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
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I do not have a bread machine. But i really wanna try this recipe in the morning can some help me with adding the ingredients.
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Jessica Reply:
October 7th, 2011 at 5:56 pm
Follow the link to Crystal’s original butterhorn recipe. Hers does not require a bread machine.
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