Cinnamon Roll Focaccia

• total time: 39 minutes

Ingredients

Focaccia

500gr bread flour (at least 12% proteïne content)

5gr instant yeast

430gr lukewarm water

5gr honey

15gr olive oil

10gr fine sea salt

Cinnamon Sugar Filling

100 g dark brown sugar

2 tbsp ground cinnamon (approx. 12–15 g)

85 g melted unsalted butter

Cream Cheese Glaze

60 g cream cheese (room temperature)

120 g powdered (icing) sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract (5 ml)

30 ml milk or heavy cream

Directions

Combine your flour and salt in a large mixing bowl and whisk together.

Combine your honey, lukewarm water and yeast and leave to sit for 2 minutes

Add the yeast mixture to the flour. Stir together until it forms a shaggy dough. Cover the bowl with a clean kitchen towel and leave to rest for 10 minutes

Now it’s time to perform the stretch and folds. wet your hands, then take a section of the dough and stretch it up and fold it onto itself. Rotate the bowl a quarter and repeat. Repeat for 8 stretches and folds in total

Cover the bowl and leave to rest for another 10 minutes

Perform a second set of stretch and folds

Lightly oil the top of your dough and cover your bowl in cling film. Place your dough in the fridge for 8+ hours.

Stir together all ingredients for the cinnamon sugar filling in a small mixing bowl

Take your dough out of the fridge. Don’t knock the air out! We want to keep the air bubbles that were formed overnight. Generously grease a pan. I use a rectangular one of 35x24x5cm

Carefully drop the dough into the pan. Spoon 1/3 of the cinnamon sugar mixture over your focaccia. Carefully lift up the long end of your dough and fold it onto itself, repeat this on the other side. Add another layer of cinnamon sugar, then pick up the dough from the middle and tuck the short ends and cinnamon sugar underneath the dough.

Spread your last cinnamon sugar over your focaccia and dimple the dough using your fingers.

Bake at 200C for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown and cooked through

Mix all ingredients for the glaze till you have a smooth mixture, spread this over your focaccia and enjoy!