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!
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.
The two in the left photo came the closest to being eatable, well almost.
Original recipe can be found at King Arthur. And for heaven’s sake do check out all the Babes posts as I will be doing now!!
MyKitchenInHalfCups 
June 18, 2026 at 12:47 pm
Wahhhhhh!! And you made a double recipe too! This is so sad, because those uncooked SunBuns look perfect. Your shaping was stellar!
When you reported that the buns had black bottoms, I didn’t realize that the tops were overdone as well. It’s my guess that the grater method (using the sharp tiny blades on one side of a box grater) might not have worked all that much better than what you did by cutting off the really burned parts.
June 18, 2026 at 6:14 pm
I was absolutely very pleased with the shaping. I don’t think I made a double recipe just made them smaller and so got higher count.
June 18, 2026 at 1:12 pm
Oh man, those really were not salvageable. That’s so tragic because they were so good and would have been perfect otherwise! Darn power loss!
June 18, 2026 at 6:13 pm
I was very pleased with the shaping. I know these are worthy of another try.
June 18, 2026 at 5:16 pm
What a shame! Your shaping is perfect too. I hate power outages. I appreciate all of the effort and hope you go for it again!
June 18, 2026 at 6:11 pm
I really like Elizabeth’s idea of lemon curd and have it in my mind if I can just find the time. I know several folks I could get interested to give a few to.