Currently baking from Great Coffee Cakes, Sticky Buns, Muffins & More by Carole Walter

I’m not sure what to classify these as. Are they cookies? Mini cakes? The lazy person’s croissants? Whatever you want to call them, they are fantastic! Warm from the oven, they are soft and pillowy and full of cinnamony goodness. The walnuts give the horns a nice crunch without overwhelming the other flavors.

You start off by making a batch of the yeasted simple sweet dough. Once the dough has rested overnight in the refrigerator, you roll the dough in chopped walnuts and cinnamon sugar and then roll them out into a square. The dough is then cut into triangles, brushed with an egg wash, sprinkled with more cinnamon sugar and walnuts, and finally rolled into croissant shapes and baked.

There’s something about this yeasted sweet dough that goes well with cinnamon and nuts. I suspect that any nut would work well here. Once you get the yeasted sweet dough made, these are a snap to assemble, but they are even easier to eat.