June | 2026 | MyKitchenInHalfCups

There are times, even when the sun shines, that here in the woods we lose electric power for unknown reasons. Until the day I was baking these Sun Buns, it had never happened when I had the oven on and baking. But it did happen. I’d have been ok if I’d set the timer on the phone but no, instead, I had the timer set on the oven. So when the power went out, I had no idea how long the bun had been in the oven. I left them way too long.

Please check out the right way to bake these and for the recipe at our Kitchen of the month Karen at Karen’s Kitchen Stories. I believe my would have look almost as good as Karen’s if I hadn’t burned them.

The night before baking, I made the custard and the cinnamon paste. I will say both the custard and the cinnamon paste are spectacular standalone!

This cinnamon topping is gloriously good.

The dough was beautifully soft and silky.

Did I tell you that cinnamon filling/paste wad incredible. So incredible I was tempted to just spread it on toast.

The dough was silky lovely. It rolled out exceptionally nice easy strips that tied into surprisingly easy beautiful knots.

The one and really only suggestion I could make would be to skip covering the custard and go straight to putting it into a ziplock bag because why waste plastic film to prevent a film forming on top of the custard when the neatest way to fill a dimple in a knot is by putting the custard into a ziplock bag where no film will form on any surface and all you need do to is snip the corner of the ziplock and squeeze enough to fill a dimple.

I really hate to show you what came out of my oven but that’s not the reason I’m late with my post. No, I hate admitting perhaps even more that i got my days mixed up.

Elizabeth reminded me too late the way to clean burned or over baked bottoms is with a grater so I resorted to cutting the bottoms off the over baked buns …. You really can’t over bake the sun, it just turns brown and ugly.