King Arthur Flour's Dark and Dangerous Cinnamon Buns

Ingredients

• 2 or 3 tablespoons (1 to 1 ½ ounces) milk or cream, enough to make a spreadable icing
• Pinch of salt
• 2 tablespoons (1 ounce) unsalted butter, melted
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 cups (8 ounces) confectioners’ sugar
• Icing
• Pinch of salt
• + 16 more ingredients
• • 2 tablespoons (½ ounce) ground cinnamon
  • 1 large egg white
  • 1 cup (7 ½ ounces) packed light or brown sugar
  • Filling
  • 2 teaspoons yeast
  • 1 ½ teaspoons salt
  • ¼ cup (1 ounce) nonfat dry milk
  • Heaping ½ cup (1 ¼ ounces) dried potato flakes or 3 tablespoons (1 ¼ ounce) potato flour
  • ½ cup (1 ¾ ounces) old-fashioned rolled oats
  • 3 ½ cups (14 ounces) traditional whole wheat flour
  • 4 tablespoons (½ stick, 2 ounces) unsalted butter, cut into 6 pieces
  • 1 large egg, separated (reserve the white)
  • 5 tablespoons (3 ¾ ounces) honey
  • ¼ cup (2 ounces) orange juice
  • ¾ cup plus 2 tablespoons (7 ounces) lukewarm water
  • Dough

1 To prepare the dough: Combine all the dough ingredients, using the egg yolk and setting the white aside to use in the filling. Mix and knead – by hand, mixer or bread machine – until you have a medium-soft, smooth dough. Cover and allow the dough to rise until it’s quite puffy, though probably ...

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