This is an OLD family recipe from my Austrian great grandmother. It is a tradition of ours on Easter Sunday and they are SO good!!! I honestly don't know why we make them once a year only but with how many we eat, probably ALL we can afford!
Ingredients
Day before baking make dough:
3½ tsp active dry yeast
½ cup warm water
1 cup scalded milk
¾ cup butter, softened
½ cup sugar
1 cup potatoes, mashed through sieve
2 fresh eggs
1 tsp salt
7 cups unbleached white flour
For topping:
2 sticks butter
cinnamon and sugar mixed, equal parts
Instructions
Dissolve yeast in warm water.
Cool milk to lukewarm and add yeast water.
In a mixer with mixing attachment, cream butter, sugar, mash potatoes, and eggs. Switch to a dough hook.
Add salt and flour together and start with flour and add a little to butter mixture then add a little water. Alternate between flour and water but start and end with flour. As soon as mixture is pulling from side of bowl and wrapping around dough hook.
Grease a large bowl with butter and add dough. Cover with towel and let rise in warm place til double in size. Punch down and cover with plastic wrap and leave overnight. (I leave out but can put in fridge but bring to room temperature)
Morning of baking:
Punch down dough and in a 9x13 pan, start with a little bit of dough and roll into a log shape, about 4 inches long by 1 inch thick. Dip into butter and then roll into sugar/cinnamon mixture and put in pan. Repeat this with all the dough and alternating sides you place them inside pan as you will make 2 rows. As you put them next to each other, just "push" a little against each other to pack in a little bit. Pan won't be totally full which is fine as they will rise again in oven
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Put a pan underneath 9x13 as it will spill over with sugar mixture. Bake for 25 minutes and check to see if they are done. They will be soft but easily pull apart.
Serve immediately with butter. Best HOT and out of oven!
Recipe by Eatentions at https://www.eatentions.com/homemade-cinnamon-sticks/