I recently ordered home-made cinnamon buns from Cinnamon Square, who are based down the road from me in Rickmansworth. The bakery is known for its award-winning cinnamon buns and also offers baking classes, specialising in bread and pastry but also offering other cookery classes. I love cinnamon buns, so I decided to place an order. I ordered a box of four large cinnamon buns, and they came tucked in a box with an instruction to warm them up before devouring them.
The bread/pastry for the buns is perfect and light and almost melt-in-your-mouth. They are not heavy or stodgey at all, so one is not going to make you feel overly-full or queasy, and I have had my share of ones that were too filling and doughy. The icing on the buns was a cream cheese icing, which is where these slightly let me down. I would have preferred the icing to be sweeter, and a sweeter icing is what I was expecting. Perhaps I have been spoiled by the American chain "Cinnabon", which used to have a shop in Southampton that closed years ago but also a shop on Piccadilly Circus which was still in operation as far as I was aware, although it admitedly had been awhile since I had visited it. However, I know some prefer the cream cheese icing (exactly what you can get on carrot cake) to the sweet icing, but I would love to have this bun with a sweeter icing.
Cinnamon Square deliver their cinnamon buns nation-wide. For more information and to check out their baking classes, visit their website here: https://cinnamonsquare.com.
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