ina's sticky buns

sticky bun heaven

i have tried lots of ways to make the classic cinnamon raisin sticky buns.....the "popping fresh kind"  (not so good),  an american test kitchen recipe  that is also pretty good but takes a little bit more time and... you have to make the dough ....best i have tried by far is this easy sticky bun recipe.....from my favorite ina garten cookbook back to basics (buy it!) easy sticky buns......there are a lot of steps but all are easy and i think it would be super fun to get kids involved in making these...a great family activity or for the grown up cook a rewarding sunday morning treat......they are best warm but they usually don't hang around long enough to get cold anyway.
recipe after the jump

ingredients
12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/3 cup light brown sugar, tightly packed
1/2 cup pecans, chopped in large pieces
1 package (17.3 oz/2 sheets) frozen puff pastry defrosted (i like pepperidge farms)
for the filling:
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
2/3 cup light brown sugar, lightly packed
3 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 cup of raisins (i like golden raisins)

bailey doing some doggie yoga while the buns cook

refer to the web link for directions *note i 1/2 ed the recipe and only made 6

butter sugar pecan topping in the muffin tins

zoom in

brush the pastry with melted butter

pile on the goodies

rollem, slicem and put them in the muffin tin as shown  (save and bake each end for bailey)

ready for the oven

put em in the oven for bailey and me

these are bailey's he loved them