Cinnamon Bun Mix – King Arthur Baking

Bought the box mix for Cinnamon Bun Mix from King Arthur Baking to try out and compare against my family’s traditional recipe for cinnamon buns.

Box contained a packet of spice mix and a packet for glaze mix in addition to the dough mix.

The dough mix contained flour (wheat flour and malted barley flour), cane sugar, nonfat dry milk, sour cream, sea salt, and flavoring .

The filling mix contained cane sugar, Vietnamese Cinnamon, cornstarch

The glaze contained confectioner’s sugar and flavoring

Yeast was a pre-measured packet that had yeast and ascorbic acid.

The mix only made 9 cinnamon rolls.

Reactions: the dough did not rise very much the first or the second time.  Not sure about the yeast packet since since it was a pre-measured sort of thing and there was no date on the yeast packet for determining how fresh the yeast was. The box recommended the mix be used before 09/15/22.  I was sure that the water was not too hot and was only barely lukewarm. So not sure why it did not raise more.  The directions called for adding in to the flour mixture.

New technique of making the filling into a paste and spreading on the rolled out dough. Have always just sprinkled the spice and sugar mixture over top of melted buttered dough rolled out to size. This dough did not not call for spreading melted butter on first.

Tasted good but there was some sort of taste that I picked up that I did not really like.  Not sure if it was the Vietnamese cinnamon or not.  In my pantry I have both Vietnamese Cinnamon and cinnamon that I have purchased from Oak Hill bulk foods since I do so much baking. The batch of cinnamon rolls that I had made from scratch the week before used the Oak Hill cinnamon and was the traditional family recipe.  Will have to experiment and see if I get that same reaction. Those rolls were much better tasting than this box mix. They also rose higher and the dough had more of a buttery taste and had more butter in them.

The cost for the mix $14.95) and the small number of rolls (only nine) will probably prevent me from buying the mix again. If I had to pay for shipping it would also add to not buying again. But since was buying other items I included it in an order and it was worth a purchase to check it out.