Crisp

Right now I’m in the middle of making some cinnamon buns. sorta. First of all its not nearly the middle because I’m still in the process of waiting for the starter to become bubbly — about an hour and a half wait. Also sorta in that the buns have cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, allspice, cardamom, brown sugar, vanilla sugar and that’s just the spices. The buns are going to have overnight brandy marinated dried figs and chopped walnuts rolled into them. The dough is a rich brioche base dough. But I can’t quite give you a recipe yet… since its a combination of recipes, ideas and pinches of this and that. I’m not sure if it will turn out to be tasty… but I will write the filling below, just so I don’t forget.

1 cup chopped dry figs

2 tbsp brandy

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

1/4 cup brown sugar

3 big pinches vanilla sugar

2 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp nutmeg

1/8 tsp clove

1/4 tsp cardamom

1/8 tsp allspice

– I’m pretty sure I will add more brown sugar to this recipe… we’ll see how it goes