Molasses Buns Recipes

MOLASSES STICKY BUNS RECIPE

Steps:

• Combine flour, sugar, salt, and yeast in a large bowl.
• Melt the butter and whisk it into the milk and eggs, then stir it into the flour mixture.
• Mix to combine and knead the dough until it's smooth and springy, adding up to 2/3 cup more flour if necessary.
• Form into a ball, place in an oiled bowl, turn to coat, and cover. Leave to rise until doubled (30 min to an hour, depending on the temperature in your kitchen).
• Line a 9" by 13" pan with parchment paper. Cut the paper large enough so it goes up the sides of the pan too.
• In a small saucepan, bring the brown sugar, butter, water and molasses to a boil. Pour into the prepared pan.
• When the dough has risen to double its size, punch it down, roll out into a rectangle (about 11″x 15″) and spread/sprinkle with the filling.
• Roll up (not too tight) from the long side, pinching to seal. Slice into 1 ½" rounds. Place rolls, cut side down, in the molasses sauce.
• Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, about 30 minutes.
• Bake at 350°F for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown. Cool in dish for 5 minutes; invert onto a serving platter. Serve warm.

TRADITIONAL NEWFOUNDLAND MOLASSES BUNS

Steps:

• 1- In a large bowl add molasses, boiling water and baking soda, mix together with a spoon until it starts to fizz. 2- Then add brown sugar, room temperature butter, and all spices mix in to mixture until all combined. 3- In a small bowl add egg and milk mix together then add to large bowl with the other ingredients mix together. 4- Then sift flour and salt into mixture and blend together, you may need to use your hand now to fold all together. Dust with more flour if it's to soft, form into a ball. 5- After sprinkle flour on your counter top or board then place the dough ball mixture on it and cut in half. 6- Take one half and add the pork fat piece into mixture, then roll out on counter top. 7- Take a small cookie cutter or glass and cut out small round pieces of dough and place on a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper. Continue doing this until all buns are cut out, then roll out the other half of your dough and continue doing the same thing. 8- Preheat your oven to 350° and set your timer to 15 minutes, when baked place on a cooling rack or serve hot. Prep time- 10 Minutes Baking time- 15 Minutes Buns baked- 12 to 24 depending on the size. If you would like to make these molasses buns like they did back in the day when they used pork fat in the making of these buns replacing the butter or margarine. You first fry out the small pieces of pork and the fat from the pork you put in a bowl only using a 1/2 cup of the fat and replacing the butter in this recipe. Also you can use the pork scrunchions instead of the raw pork in the molasses bun recipe. Continue following the recipe above for the other ingredients, you can also add a cup of raisins of choice to this same recipe if you like to have that too. These molasses buns was made so many ways back in the day and I'm bringing you one way that I make them and my mom made them.

MOLASSES BUNS

Steps:

• Mix margarine or butter, molasses, sugar, and boiling water in a bowl.
• Add spices and baking soda.
• Add flour and raisins.
• Mix together just enough to blend well.
• Chill dough in fridge for 20 minutes.
• Roll out dough and cut into circles.
• Bake at 325 for 15-20 minutes.

MOLASSES YEAST ROLLS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in water. Add honey; let stand for 5 minutes. Add the milk, molasses, butter, egg, salt and whole wheat flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in enough all-purpose flour to form a soft dough., Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour., Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; divide into 24 pieces. Shape each into a 10-in. rope. Shape each rope into a "S"; coil ends until they tough the center. Place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 35 minutes., Bake at 375° for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans to wire racks.

MOLASSES-PECAN STICKY BUNS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine 2 cups flour, sugar, yeast and salt. In a small saucepan, heat the milk, water and butter to 120°-130°. Add to dry ingredients; beat just until moistened. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough (dough will be sticky)., Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, 6-8 minutes. Cover and let rest for 10 minutes., Roll into a 14x12-in. rectangle. Spread butter to within 1/2 in. of edges; sprinkle with cinnamon. Roll up jelly-roll style, starting with a long side; pinch seams to seal. Cut into 12 rolls., In a small saucepan, melt remaining butter for topping. Stir in the brown sugar, pecans and molasses; pour into a greased 13x9-in. baking dish. Place rolls, cut side down, in dish., Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 15 minutes. Bake at 375° for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown. Immediately invert onto a serving platter. Serve warm.

MOLASSES (LASSIE) BUNS

Steps:

• 1. Mix all dry ingredients. Cut in butter and mix until lumps of butter have been broken up and well-distributed. Make a well in the middle of the mixture and add the molasses. Mix well, adding the warm water as needed.
• 2. Flour a cutting board or flat countertop and roll dough out to desired thickness (I usually roll it out to about 3/8" thick.) Take a large glass and, using the rim, cut out large circles. Turn them onto a greased cookie sheet.
• 3. Bake for 15-20 minutes at 400 degrees F. (Time depends on the oven. I never go over 15 minutes and cookies remain soft). Recipe makes about 4 dozen large cookies. I generally halve all the ingredients to make a smaller batch.

EASY MOLASSES STICKY BUNS

Steps:

• Roll out each loaf of bread dough into a 10-in. square. Spread with butter to within 1/2 in. of edges. Combine sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over butter. Roll up jelly-roll style; pinch seams to seal. Cut each loaf into six slices., For sauce, in a small saucepan, bring the brown sugar, butter, water and molasses to a boil. Pour into a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Place rolls, cut side down, in molasses sauce., Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 30 minutes. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown. Cool in dish for 5 minutes; invert onto a serving platter. Serve warm.