Nick doesn’t like cake. He’s just not big on it. Me, I could eat cake all day, every day.. but Nick is more of a pastry/pie person. Needless, to say, he always helps me eat all of the treats that come out of the oven. For his birthday, I thought it would be nice to make him sticky buns instead of a cake that he would have to fake excitement for.

I found the recipe* in a cookbook by Devin Alexander called The Most Decadent Diet Ever. The book is filled with healthier versions of the foods we all crave when we’re dieting. I’m not on the diet, and obviously Nick doesn’t need to be on one, but the recipe looked tasty and didn’t include nuts (the birthday boy likes to picks the nuts off of his sticky buns).

The recipe breaks down into three parts: dough, filling and sticky topping. They were all fairly simple to make. Sticky buns take more time than some other baked goods because the dough needs to rise, so I prepared everything the night before and stuck them right in the oven in the morning.
The result was a plateful (20 buns, to be exact) of sticky, gooey birthday goodness. Nick had four for breakfast alone. There are less than ten left right now. And I thought about only making half of the recipe..

Here’s the birthday boy. Can’t forget the candle to celebrate 23 years!

This recipe is a real keeper. Chances are, you have all of the ingredients.. all you have to do is plan ahead if you want them ready for breakfast. Or make them on a lazy weekend and eat them for dinner. They’re that good.

*Find the recipe (and a better picture) here.