Sticky cinnamon brown sugar breakfast ring

This sticky cinnamon brown sugar breakfast ring is great for feeding a crowd over the holidays. Served with coffee, it’s the perfect start to the day.

How to make a breakfast ring

Holidays = family + food, right? But here’s the thing, even though I love cooking and entertaining, I’m not so good at doing it in the morning. I’m definitely not a morning person and even less so when I know I have to feed a crowd.  That’s why I make my life easy and sticky to easy-to-make, sure-to-please recipes that I can prep the night before and quickly cook/bake in the morning before serving.

This sticky cinnamon brown sugar breakfast ring is one of those recipes. It’s guaranteed to please a crowd and can be fully prepped the night before. Leaving you to switch on the oven, make sure there’s plenty of strong coffee and bake it off before serving. As a bonus, the buttery-sugary-cinnamony scent will waft through your house and make you look like even more of a boss.

(I used the same dough recipe from my Italian Bombolini post but any sweet/enriched dough can be used.)

Sticky cinnamon brown sugar breakfast ring

This sticky cinnamon brown sugar breakfast ring is great for feeding a crowd over the holidays. Served with coffee, it’s the perfect start to the day. 

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Course: Baking, Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Keyword: bread dough, breakfast ring, sticky buns

Prep Time: 1 hour hour

Cook Time: 45 minutes minutes

Total Time: 1 hour hour 45 minutes minutes

Calories: 423kcal

Author: Alida Ryder

Servings: 12

Ingredients

• 1 x Dough (recipe link below)

Filling

• ¾ cup butter softened
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon

Cinnamon syrup

• 1 cup brown sugar
• ½ cup water
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon
• pinch salt

Instructions

• Make dough according to recipe.
• Mix together the butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. 
• Pre-heat the oven to 180ºC and line a baking sheet with baking paper. 
• Once the dough has risen, roll it out to approximately 2cm thick (on a floured surface) then spread over the brown sugar mixture. 
• Roll into a tight coil then cut off the edges. Make a slit, all the way down the dough then braid the two halves together. Bring the edges together and pinch to form a ring. 
• Place the breakfast ring on the prepared baking sheet and place in the oven. 
• Allow to bake for 35-45 minutes or until the ring is golden brown and cooked through. 
• In the meanwhile, combine all the syrup ingredients in a saucepan and allow to cook for 10 minutes. 
• When the ring is baked, remove from the oven and brush with the syrup. Allow to cool for 15 minutes then slice and serve. 

Nutrition

Calories: 423kcal | Carbohydrates: 63g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Sodium: 542mg | Potassium: 92mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 510IU | Calcium: 37mg | Iron: 2.9mg

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