smitten kitchen

Name: smitten kitchen
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 158 milliliters finely chopped semisweet chocolate or miniature chocolate chips, divided (optional, but use slightly more dried fruit if youre omitting this); 2 teaspoons cinnamon; 158 milliliters dried currants or chopped dark raisins, divided; 237 milliliters jelly or jam (raspberry and/or apricot are traditional, but anything you like will work), divided; 79 milliliters light or dark brown sugar; 6 Tbsps salted butter melted (or unsalted, with a pinch of salt in it), divided; 79 milliliters sugar; 237 milliliters finely chopped walnuts or pecans (although theres no reason you cant use any other nut you prefer), divided

Smitten kitchen might be just the hor d'oeuvre you are searching for. Watching your figure? This gluten free recipe has 156 calories, 1g of protein, and 7g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 24. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. 88 people found this recipe to be flavorful and satisfying. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes. A mixture of walnuts, cinnamon, butter, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so tasty.

Instructions

Stir together the 1/3 cup sugar, brown sugar and cinnamon and set it aside.

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Brown Sugar

Cinnamon

Sugar

Spread one half of your jam evenly over the dough, leaving a 1/2-inch margin at the wider ends. (If your jam is cold from the fridge, you can heat it slightly in a small saucepan or in the microwave, not until bubbling hot but until warm enough to easily spread.)

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Spread

Dough

Jam

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Microwave

Sauce Pan

Drizzle three tablespoons melted butter over the jam layer. (Although it would be intuitive to do it in the other order, I was concerned that the jam wouldnt spread well over the slick melted butter. Plus, I wanted the melted butter to mingle with the cinnamon sugar, as it would in a traditional cinnamon roll. Drooling yet?)

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Cinnamon Sugar

Cinnamon Roll

Butter

Spread

Jam

Sprinkle the jam and butter layer with 1/4 cup of the cinnamon-sugar mixture, then half of the nuts, half the chocolate and half the dried fruit.Starting with the wider side of the rectangle (the one that should be 24 inches), begin to tightly roll the dough, incorporating the filling. Once it is fully rolled up, cut it into two-inch segments with a sharp knife (a serrated knife works great here).

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Dried Fruit

Chocolate

Cinnamon

Butter

Dough

Sugar

Nuts

Roll

Jam

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Serrated Knife

Knife

Place one in each muffin cup.

Sprinkle the tops of the rolls with a tablespoon of the cinnamon-sugar mixture and set the tin aside to puff some more, about 20 to 30 minutes. (You could loosely cover it with plastic wrap, but we didnt bother.)Repeat this process with the other half of the dough, and the remaining filling ingredients.Preheat your oven to 350F.

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Cinnamon

Dough

Roll

Sugar

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Oven

Bake your rolls for 15 to 20 minutes, until theyre golden at the edges and the filling looks bubbly. (I was using a convection oven at the Lodge, which is nothing like my oven at home so your baking time may vary. Look for a nice color and that bubbling filling before you take them out.)

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Roll

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Oven

Let the rolls mostly cool on a rack.Make the glaze: Beat the butter, cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla together in a bowl with an electric mixture until fluffy. From here, you can either spread this frosting on your lukewarm buns, or thin it with milk until it is more of a drizzling consistency. Eat one at once.See more: Breakfast, Chocolate, Photo

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Powdered Sugar