Ingredients
4 cups plain flour
(600g)
½ cup sugar
(110g)
½ tsp salt
1 tbsp dry yeast
100g butter
melted
400ml milk
2 eggs
1 cup cherries
pitted, for filling
1 egg
beaten to glaze, for filling
¼ cup caster sugar
for filling
½ tbsp ground cinnamon
for filling
Allergy Advice
Contains Dairy
Contains Eggs
Contains Gluten
Equipment
- 1 Large bowl
- 1 Standing mixer with dough hook
- 1 Oiled bowl
- 1 Clean tea towel
- 1 33cm x 20cm baking tray
- 1 Baking paper
- 1 Rolling pin
- 1 Stick blender or food processor
- 1 Pastry brush
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200°C conventional (180°C fan-forced).
- Line a 33cm x 20cm baking tray with baking paper, letting the paper hang over all sides.
- Combine the flour, sugar, salt and yeast in a large bowl. Mix melted butter, milk and eggs together and add this to the flour mixture, mixing to combine.
- Knead the dough for 8 mins using the dough hook attachment on your standing mixture. Form into a ball, place in an oiled bowl and cover with a clean tea towel.
- Leave to rise in a draught-free place for 30 minutes.
- Take a third of the dough and, using your fingers press it into and across the prepared baking tray.
- Then, on a floured work surface and using a lightly floured rolling pin, roll out the remaining dough to a large rectangle (dough should be about 5mm thick).
- Blitz the cherries using a stick blender or food processor and, using a pastry brush spread this over the dough rectangle.
- Gently roll the pastry into a giant sausage.
- Slice into rounds about 4cm thick and place, swirly-side up, on the dough base in the tray. They will swell and rise upon the second proving so don’t worry if there are gaps.
- Brush with the egg and set aside for another 30 mins to prove again.
- Mix together the sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle generously over the top.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until the rolls are golden-brown.
