cardamom sweet rolls and my pastry plight

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Hi Jenna

Could you make some gluten free recipes on your site….esp baking ones?

Thanks from the many of us out there with celiac disease!

PS enjoy your blog, miss your lunches and breakfasts though 🙂

Jen

oh those look so good!! I’m actually thinking about making them –they look pretty easy! 🙂

ps: I’m reading the American Wife right now after your recomendation on the blog and I LOVE IT!!!

rebecca lustig

i LOVE making miniature pastries. there’s something elegant, detailed, beautiful and UNIQUE about capturing the essence of all the flavors in just a few bites.

Alina @ Duty Free Foodie

In high school, I enjoyed ginormous sugary cinnamon rolls almost daily. I would like to think my palette has since matured away from sugar coma desserts. These look like they would be a lot of fun to try!

Angela @ Eat Spin Run Repeat

Those are so unbelievably cute!! You never fail to make me hungry Jenna!

Gloria

People always wonder how I eat cookies, pastries, and desserts all the time and stay so healthy – UHHH that’s because I’m not eating 10 at a time and they are all homemade and not out of a bag from Publix! As an aspiring (vegan) pastry chef, I love your blog because it gives me such inspiration. Don’t kill me for using coconut butter and flax eggs 😉

Cathy B. @ Bright Bakes

Yeast baking is my favorite thing in the whole world.
And my second favorite thing in the whole world is getting to eat the yummy, homemade, preservative-free, delightful little things that come out of my oven. All I can say to this post is AMEN! People seem bent on either stuffing themselves silly with way too much processed and poorly made food…or existing on nothing more than protein bars and carrot sticks.
I love your outlook! SO refreshing…
love,
cathy b.

Michelle @ Turning Over a New Leaf

Mmmm. Cardamom! I’ve got a jar of cardamom that I’ve used only once. These look wonderful!

I agree on your outlook. I gained 20 lbs in one summer from living off processed “danishes” that were available to me for free at the hotel where I was working. The crazy thing is that I really didn’t like them all that much! Those danish, before eating them, made me think of the wonderful kolaches (the pastries with the fruit or cream filling. Pigs-in-a-blanket are not kolaches! UGH) I can get in West (the town called “West”), Texas. Mmmm. Processed breakfast danishes cannot compare.

megan @ whatmegansmaking

Jenna, they look beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. I want to make them just because they’re so pretty 🙂

Miranda

Wow, those look amazing, going to have to add this to the ‘make ASAP’ list. We have to travel for Thanksgiving and these look like they would travel well. I could not agree more abou the size of our food it just seems to be getting bigger and bigger along with our waistlines.

Jenny

I am so thrilled that you just made some rolls like this! I’ve been looking for a lighter version of sweet rolls so this seems perfect!

monicanelsonfitness

Stunning Jenna! You are on a *roll*, hehe. 🙂

I still want to make the Pumpkin Rolls too.

Tracey @ I'm Not Superhuman

These look so good. And you’re right, we do like everything super-sized. I’m trying (somewhat unsuccessfully) to teach my husband about portion size.

marlee

love it!!! any chance that in the future you can include directions in your recipes for the lowly among us without a kitchenaid mixer?

katie

these would be great for xmass morning. do you know how to make popovers? those are my dad’s thing to make on xmass day morning. make those next please!!!

chelsey @ clean eating chelsey

You are so right – pastries should not be as big as your head and weigh 500 pounds! I loved all the pastries in Europe!

Lauri (RedHeadRecipes.com)

I LOVE your outlook on food & life!!!!

These rolls look SO delish!! Might have to try them for Thanksgiving like you suggested!! Thanks for the recipe!

Sana

That is exactly what I love and miss about Europe!!! Real FOOD

Sarah-Mae @ Eat, Run, Knit

Besides the obvious health benefits, micro-sized baked goods are just so CUTE! Not to mention they beg the patron to savour and love every bite, rather than taking advantage of quantity over quality.

Heather (Heather's Dish)

i’ve never been to Europe (not yet anyway) but i love the European style of eating really great food, but smaller bits of it. that’s all you really need with great food anyway! i love this recipe, and these really couldn’t be more beautiful 🙂

Megan (Braise The Roof)

Yum, cardamom- you must have some Scandinavian blood in you. 🙂

Jenn @ LiveWellFitNow

My husband and I spent half of our honeymoon in France this summer. I continue to talk about how much I learned from the French appreciation, love and enjoyment of food. It is meant to be celebrated! It is meant to be full of lush flavor. It is not meant to be thrown in your mouth with no thought to savor every piece.

The morning we left we split a croissant. I flaked apart every layer and ate that glorious piece of food for over 10 minutes. It was so perfect. 🙂

Camille

These are, hands down, one of the most beautiful things you have ever posted. They just look… perfect!

Becky

While in general I agree with your sentiments about Europe and the supersizing of America, what you say about food in Europe is not true across the board. I live in Europe, and have for going on 7 years. I have also lived in America. Its true that when i go back to visit America, i am horrified by the portion sizes and the amount of processed junk you all eat. But there are plenty of Starbucks, McD, etc in Europe and the huge food that goes along with them. It’s important to remember that Europe is not a mythical fantasy land where everyone sits in Parisian cafes sipping coffee and nibbling on reasonably sized pastries all day! By the way, those cardamom rolls look delicious!

Mary @ Bites and Bliss

I’ve been seeing so many sweet rolls around the blogosphere lately, I’ll have to join in on the fun!! These look fantastic!

Sarah K. @ The Pajama Chef

Beautiful & delicious as always! Well, I haven’t made them so I don’t know they are delicious but I am 99.9% sure they are. 🙂 And I am so with you on the size thing… American food drives me nuts. But, at least at many restaurants you get lots of meals out of one dish 🙂

maya @ finding balance in tokyo

Those look fantastic!

I have to agree with you about the differences in pasty size/sweetness between America and the rest of the world. I live in Japan, and have noticed similar differences here. When it comes to pastries and such the Japanese -usually- seem to draw on the European standard for influence rather than the American. That’s not to say that all pastries are smaller and less sweet, but there are a lot more options to choose from, rather than row after row of gigantic, coma-inducing danishes.

One thing I find interesting is that even American chains like Starbucks offer different items over here. We do have a few of the big American pastries available, but they are mixed in with smaller and more reasonably sized ones unique to Starbucks Japan. My friends and family are always surprised at the quality of these when they visit, as well!

Marika

I agree with the previous commenter– I made Finnish cinnamon rolls a few weeks ago and the recipe was pretty much the same! Cardamom makes things taste so Scandinavian.

bergamot

The sweet rolls look great, perfectly done.

Ingrid

wait jenna… did you get a ROLLING PIN?! no more wine bottle? love it, and am jealous of your marble roller. mine is just a plain wooden roller :o)

Sara

Love these! Can’t stop eating them. Thanks.

lillian

Hi. Could i substitute some or all of the ap flour with white whole wheat flour?

Heather

Just and inside tip from a baker:
The rolls themselves are a laminated dough, not a traditional sweet roll dough. That is what makes them so unique, flaky and creates those layers you see.