I am super excited today as we are starting to celebrate the two-week long Fiesta Friday #100! Please do link up your yummy treats as I am so excited to devour them! I am sure the others, too! 😀 Don’t forget to link up to Fiesta Friday #100, Angie and our co-hosts – Aunt Juju, Ginger, Molly and Suzanne. Angie, I am borrowing your beautiful festive photo! 😀 Thanks! xx To all my Fiesta Friday Family, 100 parties? Wow! Cheers to more parties and finding new family! I couldn’t contain my excitement that I actually made something especially for FF #100 even before Angie announced the two weeks celebration! Well, I planned ahead when I heard rumors about the two weeks. This girl gotta make sure that she brings something special, you know. Special in a way that this could make us remember The Sparkling Diva – Selma. We all know that Selma had inspired all of us in some ways and she had always been an amazing woman. So for this FF #100 celebration, I decided that I wanted to bring something from Selma’s Table as I want something of her to be a part of this celebration… and I know you, too. 🙂 I’ve scheduled the baking of this recipe a month ago, but somehow, I always ended up missing some ingredients – three times! And let me tell yah – I failed twice! I suspected that I overkneaded the dough (electric mixer + my chubby hands = over kneading). The first attempt was Thursday night: Since they didn’t turn brown like Selma’s, I let them stay too long inside the oven. The result? Burnt bottom and the baked sticky buns were hard as rocks that if I throw them to you, you’re dead! 😛 The second attempt was Friday morning: I let them stay for additional 10 minutes inside the oven as I was waiting for them to brown, but still didn’t. I took them out, but became tough after 5 hours. Still edible, though. You just have to warm them to soften. The third and final attempt was Saturday morning: This time, I kneaded the dough only by hands. Still, the sticky buns didn’t brown, but I took them out anyway. I loved the texture this time. I was wondering why mine didn’t brown, but later on, I didn’t care! The most important thing is I made everything right and I’ve made a very delicious sticky buns. So yeah, that’s three days in a row! It was indeed crazy not having the same look as Selma’s, but at the end of the day, who cares if they brown or not? Now, let me tell you what to expect of these sticky buns: The dough contains espresso powder which makes it extraordinary. The smell of the dough alone would make you wanna eat them. But no, you silly, learn to wait! The filling: chocolate with 90% cocoa, brown sugar-espresso mix and Nutella. I know what you’re thinking – you’d want to lie down over that divine filling and roll yourself. The sliced sticky buns is topped with toasted and chopped hazelnuts, brown sugar-espresso mix and then baked. Now, you can stop at that point or imagine those warm sticky buns with cream cheese frosting. If you think that you can forget about your imagination, then do not proceed. But if you think that you’d have a nightmare if you don’t follow your tummy’s desire, then go ahead and make your frosting! Warning: You might eat two or three sticky buns right way… just like what I did! 😀 The sticky buns are insanely delicious. Do you want me to repeat that I ate two immediately and other one after an hour? And oh, this is how it looks from the inside: I hope you try them and let me know what you think. 🙂 But I promise you that this will be one of your favorites! Have a blessed and full of smiles holidays! 😀 😀 😀 I am also sharing this at Bake of the Week | FoodieFriDIY | Foodie Friends Friday | Throwback Thursday | Recipe of the Week | Cook Blog Share | Please follow and like us: