Sweet honey buns
450 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 2¼ | pounds | Honey |
| 2 | pounds | Granulated sugar |
| 1 | pounds | Dry milk solids |
| 1 | ounce | Lemon rind |
| 4 | pounds | Shortening |
| 5 | ounces | Salt |
| 1½ | ounce | Nutmeg |
| 2 | ounces | Vanilla flavoring |
| ½ | ounce | Orange flavoring |
| 2 | pounds | Whole egg |
| 8 | pounds | Water |
| 1½ | pounds | Yeast |
| 15 | pounds | Bread flour |
| 4 | pounds | Pastry flour |
| 2 | pounds | Sugar |
| 2 | ounces | Cinnamon |
| 8½ | pounds | Brown sugar |
| 192 | ounces | Margarine |
| 158 | ounces | Honey |
Directions
Procedure - Sweet Dough: 1. Cream until light: 2-¼ lbs. honey, fine granulated sugar, dry milk solids, lemon rind, shortening, salt, nutmeg and flavorings. 2. Add eggs gradually, during 5 minutes of creaming at medium speed (scrape bowl well). 3. Dissolve yeast thoroughly in water. Add and mix lightly. 4. Sift flour and add, using a dough hook. Mix until dough leaves side of mixing bowl.
Approximately 8 minutes of mixing. 5. Bring dough from mixer at 80 degrees F. Ferment 2 hours and take to bench. Proof with very little steam.
Yield: Dough for 450 Honey Buns.
Procedure - Honey Smear: 1. Cream brown sugar and margarine. 2. Add 9 lbs. 14 oz. honey. Combine thoroughly. Set aside.
Yield: Smear for 450 Honey Buns.
Procedure - Cinnamon/Sugar Mixture: 1. Combine cinnamon and sugar thoroughly. Set aside.
Yield: Mixture for 450 honey buns.
Preparation - Honey Buns: 1. Take 5 pounds of sweet dough and roll out 5-6 feet long, 14 inches wide, and ⅛ inch thick. 2. Spread top ⅔ of 5 foot long portion with 24 ounces of honey smear and bottom ⅓ with egg wash. 3. Sprinkle 4 ounces cinnamon/sugar mixture on top of honey smear. 4. Roll towards you in a tube shape as if you were making cinnamon rolls. 5. Cut pieces 1-2 inches long, 2 ounces each.
6. Place pieces in prepared cupcake pans. 7. Give full proof and bake at 376[F, 15 to 20 minutes. 8. Dump immediately onto silicone papered pans when taking from oven.
Yield: 54 honey buns, 2-½ ounces each.
Submitted By DAN KLEPACH On 08-14-95