These rolls are beautiful and well flavored with sugar, cinnamon and expresso powder. They are not overly sweet and go very nicely with a cup of coffee.
Get out your scale and measure up the ingredients into your mixer bowl. (all except the butter.)
Use your dough hook and knead for about 10 minutes on low. (I used speed 3).
Once the dough is looking fairly good / mixed / beginning to get pliable - add in the chilled butter and knead more - for about 10 more minutes (again I used speed 3). (reminder - I added about 1 Tbl extra flour...you may need some extra also?)
Pull a piece of dough off - and flatten slightly. Pull the dough / stretch the dough - and see how thin you can get the interior of the dough. (Windowpane test) If quite see-through - dough is well kneaded. If it rips readily or doesn't pull nicely - knead another 5-10 minutes and recheck.
Cover the dough with a tea towel and let raise for about 30 minutes to 1 hour. I left mine out for 1.5 hours as it wasn't raising.
Place dough in a clean bowl, cover with plastic wrap and rest in the fridge overnight.
Make the Filling
Mix all the filling ingredients together and stir / ensure the filling is pliable and will be easy to spread.
Roll Out the Dough & Spread the filling
Roll the dough out to about 16X16 - and spread the filling as evenly as you can. (You may need a dusting of flour to help you roll / maneuver the dough)
Cut and Shape the Dough
Butter your Xlarge Cupcake Tin / Baking Pans. (makes 8 rolls)
Fold the dough in thirds, like a letter going into an envelope.
Cut the Dough into 2 inch strips (8 strips).
Cut each 2 inch strip into 4 thin strands. Place the 4 strands like a lattice (over under and then under/over). Then wrap two of the strands (over / under) - 4 times around. Then mixing the groups - wrap two of the strands (over / under) 4 more times. Gather up the dough by pushing the pretty center to the top and tuck under the bottom the strand ends. Place the roll into the Xlarge tins / baking pan.
Proof the rolls till doubled
I placed mine into the warming drawer (with sprayed plastic wrap) on lowest setting for 30 minutes. You could raise on the counter for 1 hr or more - depending on temp in your house.
Egg wash rolls just before baking.
Bake at 350℉ for 20 minutes
Bake until slightly brown and cooked through - internal bread temp ~ 190℉
Cool and Serve
Notes
Well - let's look at the good news. There's 10 g of protein in each roll !!!! :)