This recipe for Overnight Cinnamon Twists has a serious history for my family. When my sister Molly was younger, she would make these to sell at our local farmers market. When she grew out of it, I grew into it. It was a terrific way to make some spending money. To this day, our family still loves making them, so I hope your family loves them too!
A note about flour- these can be made with 100% white or 100% whole wheat flour (including fresh ground hard wheat). BUT! If your family is used to white, don’t go making these all whole wheat and thinking they’ll like it. Start with just 1 cup of whole wheat and work your way up so they get accustomed to it.
You can also try our sourdough version of these cinnamon twists!
Overnight Cinnamon Twists
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon yeast
- ¼ cup warm water
- 4 cups flour
- 1 cup butter melted
- 1 cup sour cream or yogurt
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
Instructions
- In the bowl of your mixer, stir yeast and water together. Let sit 5 minutes.
- Add the flour, butter, sour cream/yogurt, eggs salt and vanilla and stir until smooth.
- Cover with a damp cloth and put in the fridge for at least 2 hours, up to 2 days.
- The dough will look basically unchanged at this point.
- Preheat the oven to 375F.
- Combine the sugar and cinnamon.
- Roll dough into a 15×18 inch rectangle, then spread the cinnamon sugar mixture on top of it.
- Fold the dough like a letter towards the middle into thirds.
- Then turn the dough horizontally and roll into a ¼ inch rectangle.
- Then slice into 1 inch strips.
- Grease or cover two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Twist the strips by picking up each end of the strip and twist in opposite directions.
- Then place on the tray next to the others.
- Bake for 15 minutes and then devour!
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BeaFreitas
I could really go for these right now, looks so delicious !
katehosie
They are so good! You've got me craving them now too
Rebecca Schwen
I had totally gotten it in my head that these were sourdough! Do you have a sourdough version!? Well they look awesome anyways. Still gonna make them.
Rebecca Schwen
Lol! I hit post comment and see below this section that there's a link to the sourdough vernon!! So at least I haven't totally lost my mind!
Ashley
What kind of yeast do you use for this? Active dry yeast like for the Oneish Hour Cinnomon Rolls thanks. I would like to try these.
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Our family has been making these for over 20 years and we always use the active dry yeast. Kate and her sister Molly used to make these to sell at our Saturday market when they were 10 years old. Always sold out within an hour.
Kellie deitz
We made these for breakfast and they are almost all gone. Love that you can make the dough the night before. Very good. Will make again.
Jenna
Just whipping these up now and they look delicious! For next time, what did you use for your glaze?
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The glaze is not actually supposed to be there. Not sure what happened.