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No-Knead Sticky Pecan Caramel Cinnamon Rolls
Do you know what I call smart? Taking something from “works awesome” (No-Knead Bread) to the level of “KICK-ASS.” Which is exactly what authors of the book 
Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day
Oh yeah, and I hold them both directly responsible for the extra 3lbs I’ve just gained testing their recipes.
Keep reading for the recipe and a free cookbook drawing!
So, they’ve taken the 
basic No Knead Bread recipe and added 2 big concepts to it:
1) Make enough dough to store in the refrigerator for 2 weeks. Pinch off what you need and bake. Return the rest to refrig. This allows you to bake a loaf of artisan bread in as little as 20 minutes rest + 25 minute bake any day of the week. Perfect for spontaneous cooks like myself. Want dinner rolls for just 2 tonight? Pinch off a smaller chunk of dough. Plus, the “aging” of the dough produces the most amazing flavor, something that was lacking in the original No Knead bread.
2) Create over 100 different bread/pastry recipes, all no-knead. Um. Let me see if I can whet your appetite (I love the ones in red)
PEASANT LOAVES: Baguette, Batard, Pain d’Epi, Ciabatta, Crusty White Sandwich Loaf, Olive Bread, Caraway Swirl Rye, Limpa (Scandinavian bread wit honey and orange zest), Portuguese Corn Bread, English Granary Style, Oatmeal-Pumpkin, Raisin Walnut Oatmeal, Vermont Cheddar Bread, Caramelized Onion & Herb Dinner Rolls, Spinach Feta, Sun-Dried Tomato & Parmesan, Granola Bread, Roasted Garlic Potato Bread, Eastern European Potato Rye, Bagels, Bialys, Soft Pretzels, Montreal Bagels
FLATBREADS/PIZZAS: Pizza, Spinach & Cheese Calzone, Philadelphia Stromboli with Sausage, Prosciutto & Olive Oil Flatbread, Pissaladiere, Focaccia with Onion & Rosemary, Olive Fougasse, Fougasse Stuffed with Roasted Red Pepper, Sweet Provencal Flatbread with Anise Seeds, Pine-Nut Studded Polenta Flatbread, Arabic Za’atar Flatbread, Pita, Amenian Lavash, Moroccan Anise and Barley Flatbread, Naan, Scandinavian Rye Crisp bread
ENRICHED: Challah, Turban Shaped Challah with Raisins, Onion Pletzel, Sticky Pecan Caramel Rolls, Brioche, Brioche a Tete, Almond Brioche “Bostock”, Brioche Filled with Chocolate Ganache, Beignets, Chocolate or Jam Filled Beignets, Panettone, Soft-Style American White, Buttermilk Bread, Cinnamon Raisin Bread, Chocolate Bread, Swiss Muesli Breakfast Bread, Sunflower Seed Breakfast Loaf, Chocolate Prune, Chocolate Raisin Babka, Apple & Pear Coffee Cake, Sunny Side up Apricot Pastry, Blueberry Lemon Curd Ring, Braided Raspberry Almond Cream Pastry, Cinnamon Twists
Wipe that drool off the keyboard!
The first recipe I tried was to satisfy my sweet tooth. I love the No-Knead Bread from Lahey, but after an entire year of spoiling myself with crusty, homemade round loaves, I yearned for a sweet bread. This Sticky Pecan Caramel Cinnamon Roll truly is a no-knead, no-brainer! Read the recipe first, then the free cookbook contest!
This is what orgasm on a plate looks like.
Master Dough
from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day
The book contains several master dough recipes, and this is an enriched, sweet dough, perfect for a loaf of Challah (the braided dough) and the Sticky Rolls. You start by mixing the master dough first, Let that rest overnight in the refrigerator, then the next day, pinch off a cantaloupe sized hunk-o-dough to make your Sticky Pecan Caramel Cinnamon Rolls! Return the rest to the refrigerator to use for another day.
1 3/4 cups lukewarm water
1 1/2 tbl instant yeast
1 1/2 tbl kosher salt (or 1 1/2 tsp table salt)
4 lg eggs, slightly beaten
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
7 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
In a large bowl, mix together the eggs, water, honey, melted butter, yeast and salt. Stir well with a wooden spoon. Add in the flour. STIR, BABY STIR!!! Stir until you don’t see any more dry bits of flour (about a minute). Cover (not airtight) and stick it in the refrigerator overnight, or up to 4 days. The longer you let it fart around in the refrigerator (literally!), the better tasting the dough will be.
pssst….if you want, you can let it rise for 2 hours on the counter, pinch off the dough that you need to make your rolls. However, I’ve found that with only a 2-hour rise, the bread isn’t very flavorful. Still good, but definitely not as good as if you had let it sit 1-4 days in the refrigerator.
NOTE: When you let the dough hang out in the refrigerator, it’s not going to “rise” like a normal dough
Sticky Pecan Caramel Cinnamon Rolls
adapted from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day
The photos I have on this post was the book’s recipe followed exactly. However, the recipe below is modified it a bit, increasing the amount of caramel and amount of filling, as I like my rolls to be oozing, dripping of the sweet cinnamon butter and sugar. Due to popular demand, I’m cutting back on the butter! The recipe is as-is from the book!
Think of Cinnabon, that chain store found in every American mall, except EVEN BETTER.
The Dough
A cantaloupe sized chunk of the Master Dough (about 1.5 lbs)
The Gooey Sticky Caramel Topping
6 tbl unsalted butter, softened
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup brown sugar
30 pecan halves
The Heavenly Sweet Cinnamon Butter Filling
4 tbl unsalted butter, softened
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
1/2 cup chopped and toasted pecans
pinch of freshly ground black pepper
9″ square or round cake pan
The first thing you need to do is take that master dough out of the refrigerator, grab a small cantalope sized chunk of dough. Return the rest of it to the refrigerator to use another time (psst…get the book for all the other recipes using this dough!). Generously flour your hands and the dough. Shape the dough into a ball by stretching the surface of the dough and tucking it to the bottom all around, rotating hte ball a quarter-turn as you go. This creates a taut, smooth surface. Let the dough rest, covered with a towel to take the chill off while you prepare rest of ingredients.
While the dough is unchilling, mix the topping and the filling.
FOR THE TOPPING: Cream together the butter, salt and sugar. Spread this topping evenly on the bottom of the cake pan. Scatter with pecan halves (I used chopped pecans in my photos).
FOR THE FILLING: Cream together all ingredients except the pecans. Set aside.
Dust your counter with flour and roll out the dough with a rolling pin to 1/8″ thick rectangle. Try to get it 13″ x 17″ I had trouble with the rectangle shape, so I we just rolled it into a large oval. Spread the sweet butter filling evenly on the surface. Scatter chopped pecans all over. Here is Andrew, the bad-ass baker boy at work. (hey, if your kid wants to eat sweets, make him cook or bake it himself – that’s my rule!)
Roll it up, starting with the long side.
Flour your serrated knife and cut roll into 9 even pieces (square pan) or 8 pieces (round pan).
Set it in the pan on top of the caramel, cover with towel and rest for 1 hour
Preheat your oven to 350F. The book says to bake for 40 minutes, or until golden brown and well set in the center. But take a peek at the rolls around the 35 minute mark.
While still hot, run a knife round the edge of pan and invert immediately onto a plate. If you wait until it cools, the caramel will harden and it will be difficult to turn out.
YUM. Soft, pillowy dough. Sweet cinnamon and nutmeg butter dribbling down your chin. Sticky, gooey caramel. Crunchy pecans.
Wanna bite?
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The Free Cookbook!
Ok, so now that I’ve seduced you all into sweet, sticky, submission, do as I say and enter the contest!
Jeff and Zoe have generously offered 4 free cookbooks to give away. Which is AWESOME, considering the book is sold out in many stores and they are in their 3rd printing. (try Amazon: Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day
All you have to do is comment below and tell me which bread/pastry you would love to make from this book! The list of recipes is above. There are so many choices.
Random drawing takes place Friday, January 18th at 7pm. I’ll take submissions until then.
Good luck!
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More No Knead!
The Original No Knead Bread
No Knead Pizza Dough: Pear & Gorgonzola Flatbread with Baby Arugula and Shaved Parmesan
No-Knead Nutella and Roasted Hazelnut Challah
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I’d love to try the recipes for Baguette, Batard, Pain d’Epi, Ciabatta, Bialys, Soft Pretzels, Pizza, Olive Fougasse, Arabic Za’atar Flatbread, Amenian Lavash, Chocolate Filled Beignets, Sticky Pecan Caramel Rolls
Oooh, my God, an orgasm on a plate…spare me the visuals! However, the Blueberry Lemon Curd Ring would do it for me!
THANKS for your wonderful blog…always checking every few days to see what and who you are into next!
You would make THE VERY BEST next Food Network TV chef with her own series!
I can only choose one?! Okay, um…um…(sigh, close eyes and point at screen). Vermont Cheddar Bread! Yay! (Actually I would have said ‘yay’ no matter which one it was).
Oh my goodness Jaden, those looks amazing. All you recipes do, really. I may have to make these for my houseguests next weekend.
I’d love to win a book, too!
This book sounds like a self-help book that promises to change your life, but I’d love to learn the secret to baking bread without slaving in the kitchen all day.
All the recipes sound good, but the one I’d love to make would be Braided Raspberry Almond Cream Pastry.
Loving the blog as usual Jaden!
I am excited to try all the flatbread recipes, great for scooping up hummus or taboule. If I had to choose one, it would probably be the Arabic Za’atar Flatbread. Keep all the delicious looking recipes coming.
I’d definitely have to try the spinach-feta bread first, I think. We’ve been on a fried-egg-sandwich kick lately for some reason, and the spinach-feta sounds like it’d be good toasted.
Jaden,
My pick would be the chocolate/jam filled beignets. I was lucky to visit New Orleans as a child and remember hot, fresh beignets for breakfast.
Keep the great recipes coming!
Mmmmm..
I’ve been searching for a good Olive bread recipe and anything that can cover olive bread AND a chocolate bread! *drool*
The za’atar flatbread, since I just replenished my supply of Jordanian za’atar. (And, hey, it comes pre-recommended!)
The cinnamon buns look outrageous. In a good way.
I love the idea of having the dough in the frig ready to go. I love fresh bread, but never seem to find the time. My kitchen time is limited right now by a 21-month-old who thinks my walking into the kitchen is her cue to be picked up.
I still have fantasies about a brioche and sausge sandwich I bought at a little bakery near the bus stop at Versailles. I was just out of college and broke, but that was the most amazing sandwich. I’d make brioche first, and the one with the chocolate ganache second.
Those cinnamon rolls look delicious, I will be trying them soon.
And as for the contest – I’d love to make the chocolate raisin babka, in honor of one of my favorite Seinfeld episodes.
I would definitely like to try the Pain d’Epi because it is such a beautiful bread.
I have a huge sweet tooth and chocolate is my middle name so I’m sure I’d try the Brioche filled with chocolate ganache first!
Neat trick to cut the rolled up dough. I just mark where I want to cut the dough, then slip a piece of plain dental floss under the dough. I cross the tread ends over the dough and pull each, cutting the dough into nice round pieces. This way it doesn’t flatten the dough.
If I win the cookbook,I’d like to make the Cinnamon Twists and Pizza Recipe from the book just for a start!!! Thanks for a great site!!!
I would love to have Swiss Muesli Breakfast Bread!!
I would make the pecan rolls mainly because they would help me remember the good times with my family instead of the painful, current times with my SO.
Brioche would be my first choice to make . I’ve been looking for the RIGHT recipe . I have tried two recipes but the texture of the bread didn’t come out right .
I’d love to try the Arabic Za’tar Flatbread. I even have some homemade za’tar in my freezer and this is just the kind of recipe a harried mom of three needs to make fresh bread every night!
First of all, how cool is it that one of the co-authors replied above? I have to say the cinnamon rolls would be my first choice and then the Braided Raspberry Almond Cream Pastry and if there some more master dough left, I would attempt the brioche. Too many choices!
naan.
’nuff said.
ohhh man – i think the Caraway Swirl Rye sounds DELISH!! with some pastrami…and sauerkraut…and grilled onions and swiss cheese of course
Ooh! Eastern European Potato Rye! I grew up on this stuff from a European bakery. My mother would buy it in bulk on trips to the bakery 4 hours away and then freeze it. I miss it!
Everything looks so good!! I’ve been wanting to try your no knead bread recipe but now these buns are going to have to be my first. Apple/pear coffee cake, limpa, the flatbreads..I want to try so many. I live in Bangkok now and would love to have the house homey, smelling of bread. I got word of your blog from my bro, Paul P. I love your recipes, especially those involving your sons. I want to do the same with my daughter, Sasha who will be one next month. I need easy, quick recipes and a lot of your’s fit the bill. Thanks!
cinnamon rolls mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Wow, that looks… amazing! I bet I could wean my husband off of IKEA’s cinnamon rolls with some of yours- thanks Jaden!
So I looked through the book- so many options for so many cravings (which my pregnant self seems to be having a LOT of these days). The prosciutto and olive oil flatbread sounds pretty darn fantastic for a salt-craving day. Then I was thinking I’d have to try the brioche filled with chocolate ganache to satisfy the sweet craving that will definitely follow all that salt… but then you post the nutella and toasted hazelnut challah. I just knew there was a reason I felt compelled to buy that tub of nutella this weekend!
No worries about 3 extra pounds- you look great! And hey, I plan to gain about that much every few weeks over the next few months!
OMG Jaden, you’re killing me!! I would love to try out this recipe. You’re EXPANDING my family!! LOL
I would start off by making those Sticky Caramel Pecan Cinnamon Rolls and hoping they turn out like your pictures! Thanks for the book review!
I can’t wait to make the brioche!
For myself, it’s a tie between the cinnamon rolls and the Roasted Garlic Potato Bread…will obviously have to make both! I need another cookbook like the proverbial hole in the head, but this one would definitely be a Keeper. My 6 yr old grandson Kaleb loves the pics of your son assisting in the kitchen, and will be helping me with the cinnamon rolls next weekend!
I would like Onion and herb dinner rolls.
Well and i am gonna try these sticky buns , they are just so delicous
I’m so toast! This book is on my amazon wish list.
I would love to see the Chocolate or Jam Filled Beignets, though the nutella challah you also posted is definitely on my to-do list.
Ohhhh…wow…too many to choose from! Raisin Oatmeal and the sticky buns for sure…I might have to go buy this book this weekend!!!
Thanks for sharing this recipe. Everything in the book sounds delicious. Being from Philadelphia I’d want to try the Philadelphia Stromboli with Sausage first. I’d then try the soft pretzels and then the Prosciutto & Olive Oil Flatbread, the cinnamon twist and so on…
I definitely want to make the bialys.
Awesome! I’m so trying out this recipe! And if I win the book, the next one I’d try is the Chocolate Filled Beignets.
I’m seriously on a “No Carb Left Uneaten” tour this year. I NEEEEEED this book. I need it like Richard Simmons needs hair mousse.
I want to try the Naan. On my honeymoon in the British Virgin Islands (of all places) they had the most amazing naan! The pulled it right out of the chiminea-type thing and I was waiting with open palms to rush it to my table and devour it before returning with ghee soaked hands for another piece. I don’t think they had ever seen a white girl eat bread like that.
I’d love to enter.
I want to try a basic baguette. There is something so satisfying about a good piece of bread and butter.
MMMMM I will make the chocolate or jam filled beignets.
I’m torn! Pizza first, then start on page 1…Here in New Hampshire we’re having a blizzard, and wouldn’t bread in the oven be just the thing.
As for a diet book: The Fiber 35 Diet, by Brenda Watson — more an eating book than “diet” — with tasty recipes.
This sticky buns look so yummy, have to try the recipe.
Me being Portuguese I would need to try the “Portuguese corn bread” to see how tastes to the one my mom makes but the choc. or jam filled beignets sound good too.
I’d try the bagels! That sounds like a mighty challenge
You want me to choose one recipe? They all looks so amazing. I’m just learning how to make bread and it’s not as easy as you all make it look like, but I think I’m starting to get the hang of it. this book would be the perfect addition to my cookbook collection. I love your blog!
the za’atar flatbread, delicious
The Sun-Dried Tomato & Parmesan sounds delicious. That would be the first one I’ll make with the book!
Sigh. Pizza.
Is that horribly boring and lame of me? The thing is, I’ve made focaccia, I’ve made rolls, I’ve made ham and cheese loafs. I’ve even made the fantastic No Knead Bread after reading about it here (it knocked my mom’s socks off, thank you very much! and she is a master baker).
But I can NOT make a pizza crust. They keep coming out horrifically, uneatably (hmmm, do you know Word doesn’t have a spelling for that?) bad. Like unchewable cardboard. Its really embarrassing, actually, for someone who pretends she can really cook. So, pizza. Probably the easiest thing in the world for everyone but me. Help!
You had me at “no-knead”! I’ve been dying to make the no-knead phenomenon ever since my foray into food blogs and now this cookbook leaves me with no excuse but to get in on this pure genius-ness! I have to borrow a key and lug all my baking supplies to the other floor in my dorm to use the kitchen, but for a taste of this nutella challah, I would trek across campus to bake this.
I think I would make the Limpa because honey and orange zest sound so delicious together!
*drool* roasted garlic potato bread