I don't know about you dear reader but my childhood featured some very basic cakes, iced fingers, cinnamon buns, Chelsea buns and custard tarts are the ones that immediately spring to mind.
The likes of the ever lusted after battenburg was for the grown ups and there was absolutely no chance of getting my grubby little mitts on a slice of blackforest gateaux!
Cake for us as children was very much an age divided issue, grownups got the good stuff, however that's not to say that what we got wasn't great. The good old cinnamon bun was something I always looked forward to. So while I was flicking through my slightly worn out copy of the hummingbird bakery's 'Home Sweet Home' I came across a recipe for cinnamon buns and thought to myself AH HA! I must make these!
The recipe was really simple, but being a bread based dough it needs the usual bread making processes, activation of the yeast, proving, knocking back, rising and so on. This may seem like a lot of fuss but with one batch of what seems like a very small amount of dough I managed to get 16 generously sized cinnamon buns, which I might add my children were fighting over!
I used the recipe in the book to its fullest and made the cream cheese frosting it suggests as a topping but I have to be very British and say it would have been better with some gooey royal icing over the top.
My husband took some with him when he went fishing and 'the fab four' as they like to be known say they tucked into them like school boys on an outing and that is compliment enough for me!
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