Chocolate Cinnamon Buns

This week will finish off the bread category of the 1967 Kansan Silver Spoon Cookbook, so We will try for two recipes a day. Mon-Fri.

First recipe  for Monday is Chocolate Cinnamon Buns....oooohhhh Chocolate need I say more.

Chocolate Cinnamon buns
Mrs. Esther V. Meeks

3/4 cup warm water ( 110 to 115 degrees)
1 package dry or compressed yeast
1/3 cup margarine
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup cocoa
2 1/4 to 2 1/2 cups flour, sifted
1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
3 Tablespoon sugar
1 Tablespoon butter
 nutmeats, chopped

Dissolve yeast in warm water. Add margarine, salt, egg, sugar , cocoa and 1 cup flour. Mix well, then add remaining flour. Cover with cloth un til double in bulk, about 1 hour. Stir down and turn out onto floured board. Roll in rectangle. Combine cinnamon, 3 Tablespoon sugar and 1 Tablespoon butter and spread on dough. Sprinkle with nutmeats. Let rise until double in bulk, about 40 minutes. Bake 25 minutes at 375 degrees. Remove from pan and ice immediately with confectioners sugar icing. Sprinkle with nutmeats.


* note- roll up like jelly roll and cut in slices after putting the cinnamon/sugar mixture and sprinkle with nuts, if desired.