Quicker Cinnamon Buns

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Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2013, Cook's Country TV

Making cinnamon buns is a project. Most shortcut recipes use quick biscuit dough, but the results just aren’t the same. We wanted to find a way to make yeast hurry.

SERVES Makes 8 buns

TIME 1½ hours, plus 30 minutes rising

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Most recipes for quick cinnamon buns result in something more like a biscuit—they rely on chemical leaveners (baking powder and soda) instead of yeast. To get the soft sweet-bread texture and yeasty flavor of a true bun with a quicker timet...

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