"cinnamon bun" news and stories

At Slashfood we're no strangers to images of holy women in food. We've brought you dispatches about everything from visions of the Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese to her likeness in chocolate. Here's a new one on me, a cinnamon bun bearing the image of Mother Theresa.

But wait, the plot thickens. Said bun was stolen from Bongo Java a Belmont, Tenn., coffee shop about two years ago. The Nun Bun as it's come to be called had been on display for about 10 years before its theft. Fear not dear reader, the pastry is safe. A letter received by The Tennessean states that the pastry has not fallen victim to foul play.

In other nun-related pastry news, there's a another type of nun bun that's not quite as sacred, but probably no less delicious. "Nonnevotten," or nun's bums, are a sticky syrup-laden Dutch treat. Who knew? [via Boing Boing]

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There may be some debate over whether breakfast really is the most important meal of the day, but it is undeniably one of the best looking.

These aren't the first sticky buns/cinnamon rolls that have been seen here as food porn, but all that really goes to show is that cinnamon buns are one of the most visually appealing breakfast foods that you can find. This is probably the very reason that Santos, the gifted food blogger behind The Scent of Green Bananas, chose to use this tempting breakfast scene as an example of how to work with the limitations of your camera to produce some great photographs. This shot uses natural lighting and is not an extreme closeup, so it could be easily replicated with almost any digital camera. To improve your own photography, try staging shots like this one to capture the best lighting in the room. Just be sure to have a cinnamon bun (or several) to practice on.

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Hard candies don't get enough credit. While they are small enough - and heat resistant enough - to fit into your pocket, they are also large enough to satisfy a craving for sweets with only a piece or two. Hard candy aficionados and grandparents will almost always tout Werther's Originals as the cream of the candy crop, but Creme Savers are certainly front runners. Made by Wrigley's, they candies have been on the market for several years now and set themselves apart by having an unusually smooth and buttery taste to go along with their bright, realistic flavors.

While the flavor of a creamsicle is an easy one, Creme Saver's newest offering, a Desserts line, accomplishes a more difficult task by reproducing the tastes of desserts like Apple Pie, Cinnamon Buns and Strawberry Cheesecake. Fans won't be let down by these candies as they are excellent. The Cinnamon Bun has a strong and very buttery cinnamon flavor, the Apple Pie a la Mode has a strong vanilla flavor with a hint of cinnamon that backs up a very bright Granny-Smith apple, and Strawberry Cheesecake tastes just like the real thing. With only 45 calories and 1 g fat per 3-piece serving, these are a good choice not just for hard candy fans, but for those who are looking to keep cravings for real cheesecake at bay.

Early Christmas morning, the Bongo Java coffee shop in Nashville, Tennessee, suffered a break-in. While the shop and register appeared to be undamaged, it's famous NunBun was missing. The cinnamon bun, discovered by the store manager in the 1996, was said to have the likeness of Mother Teresa in its cinnamon-glazed layers of pastry. The bun was preserved in the freezer until a local crew made a short film about it, after which the story was picked up by the city paper and propelled into the national spotlight. After having received so much attention, the bun was coated in shellac and put on display in the shop, where it has enjoyed attention as a local novelty for 9 years.

The shop owner fears that the Immaculate Confection may have been destroyed, since it was so clearly the target of this crime.

[Thanks to Tracy for the tip]

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