Inspiration for gentle cozy autumn in English countryside visiting a beautiful National Trust, a quaint village called Bibury in the Cotswolds and baking caramel apple cinnamon buns.

= Sticky Caramel Apple Cinnamon Bun recipe =

Dough:
360g plain flour (+ 2 tbsp at the end)
45g sugar
7g packet of dry activated yeast / or 2 1/2 tbsp
1/2 tsp salt (omit salt if using salted butter)
120g milk
75g unsalted butter (softened)
1 tsp Vanilla extract
1 egg
60g room temp water

Warm up your milk in the microwave for about 20 seconds it should be warm to touch but not boiling hot. You should be able to touch it with the finger without burning yourself. If it's too hot let it cool down a little bit. To the warm milk add 1 tsp of sugar and a packet of yeast, mix. Let it sit for about 5 minutes yeast will bubble up on top.
Combine flour, salt, the rest of your sugar. Make a little well in the middle and pour yeast milk, softened butter and vanilla mix well. Add 1 egg, mix, then add water and knead your dough well. It will be very sticky in the beginning, so start by mixing with a spoon and then start mixing by hand. It will take about 810 minutes of light kneading for the dough to become less sticky.
Cover with a towel and let the dough rest in a warm place for 12h or until it doubles in size.

Filling:
60g softened butter
60g brown sugar
2 tbsp cinnamon
A handful of chopped pecans
12 small grated apples

In the meantime prepare the filling.
Mix sugar with cinnamon. Chop pecans. Grate 12 apples and squeeze out their juice.

Once the dough has risen, spread it into a rectangle about 12cm high. Spread a thin layer of softened butter on top. Sprinkle sugar, chopped pecans and grated apple. Roll the dough and cut the buns (about 4 finger wide). I had 8 buns in total.
Cover with a towel and let the buns rest for 30 mins to 1h in a warm place.

Preheat the oven to 180C/ 356F
Bake for 18 minutes.
Pour warm caramel sauce on top and sprinkle with extra pecans.

Best served warm :)

I made caramel using this recipe (but also added some salt and a dash of whiskey into it):    • Homemade Caramel Sauce  

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Filmed on: Fujifilm XH2S with 33mm f 1.4 lens
Edited with: Premiere Pro CC
Music: Epidemic Sound

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