The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

If you’ve never made sticky buns, you’ll probably find
the process pretty much fun. You shape them by rolling a
large piece of dough into a cylinder, then slicing it up to
create shorter cylinders with a spiral pattern inside them. To
keep these spiral layers separated from each other, a layer of
butter and cinnamon sugar is spread over the flat sheet of
dough before rolling it up.
There are really no two ways about it: sticky buns are a
project involving multiple stages and plenty of time in the
kitchen. (Hey, didn’t I tell you I only make these about once
a year?) But if my still-going-strong marriage is any
indication, the results are definitely worth the effort.