{{Short description|Baked yeast-leavened dessert or breakfast}} {{Infobox prepared food | name = Sweet roll | image = frameless|upright | caption = A Chelsea bun, a type of spiced bun, a popular sweet roll from the United Kingdom | alternate_name = Sweet bun | country = | region = | creator = | course = | type = Sweet bread | served = | main_ingredient = | variations = | calories = | other = }}
A '''sweet roll''' or '''sweet bun''' refers to any of a number of sweet, baked, yeast-leavened breakfast, snack or dessert foods. They may contain spices, nuts, candied fruits, poppy seeds, etc., and are often glazed or topped with icing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sweet+roll |title=Sweet roll|publisher=Dictionary.reference.com |access-date=2012-05-14}}</ref> Compared to regular bread dough, sweet roll dough is enriched with sugar, fat and eggs.<ref>{{cite book |title=Bakery Processes, Yeast-Raised Products |last1=Ponte |first1=Joseph G. |last2=Payne |first2=Joel D. |year=2000 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |isbn=9780471238966 |doi=10.1002/0471238961.2505011916151420.a01.pub2 }} </ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vRcidxIUWYMC&dq=sweet+buns+are+made+with+enriched+dough&pg=PA178|title=Food Preparation and Cooking Cookery units. Student guide|publisher=Stanley Thornes|date=1996|isbn=0-7847-2566-0|page=177-178}}</ref> They are often round,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/bun |title=bun |publisher=Oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com |access-date=2012-05-14}}</ref> and are small enough to comprise a single serving.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/roll_6 |title=roll noun (BREAD)|publisher=Dictionary.cambridge.org |access-date=2012-05-14}}</ref> These differ from pastries, which are made from a paste-like dough;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reference.com/browse/pastry |title=Pastry |publisher=Reference.com |access-date=2012-05-14 |archive-date=2012-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120106013525/http://www.reference.com/browse/Pastry |url-status=dead }}</ref> from cakes, which are typically unleavened or chemically leavened;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cake |title=Cake|publisher=Merriam-webster.com |access-date=2012-05-14}}</ref> and from doughnuts, which are deep fried.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/doughnut |title=Doughnut|publisher=Dictionary.reference.com |access-date=2012-05-14}}</ref>
Refrigerated ready-to-bake sweet roll dough is commercially available in grocery stores.<ref name="Furia1973">{{cite book|author=Thomas E. Furia|title=CRC Handbook of Food Additives, Second Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XcSp015g4X0C&pg=PA656|date=2 January 1973|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-8493-0542-9|pages=656–}}</ref>
Sweet rolls are sometimes iced and/or contain a sweet filling.<ref name="Gisslen2008">{{cite book|author=Wayne Gisslen|title=Professional Baking|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sgvW97aAmAMC&pg=PA112|date=3 March 2008|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-471-78349-7|pages=112–}}</ref><ref name="Reinhart2011">{{cite book|author=Peter Reinhart|title=The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=htveL1MPqYMC&pg=PA143|date=6 April 2011|publisher=Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony|isbn=978-1-60774-129-9|pages=143–}}</ref> In some traditions, other types of fillings and decoration are used, such as cinnamon, marzipan,<ref name="Gee2016">{{cite book|author=Edward Gee|title=Bake: Beautiful baking recipes from around the world|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F890CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT657|date=9 February 2016|publisher=Parragon Books Ltd|isbn=978-1-4723-8797-4|pages=657–}}</ref> or candied fruit.<ref name="HarrisLyon2012">{{cite book|author1=Patricia Harris|author2=David Lyon|title=Food Lovers' Guide to® Vermont & New Hampshire: The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SrWCBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA35|date=3 July 2012|publisher=Globe Pequot Press|isbn=978-0-7627-9440-9|pages=35–}}</ref>
==Germany== {{multiple image | direction = horizontal | width1 = 225 | width2 = 200 | align = right | footer = Examples of Schnecken | image1 = Apfel-Mohn-Schnecken (7355199432).jpg | image2 = Schnecken pastry - 01.jpg}} '''Schnecken''' are a type of sweet bun or roll of German origin. They typically contain raisins. The name ''Schnecken'' means ''snails'' in German and refers to the shape of the pastry. The bun is still common in Germany, Switzerland and Austria (in some regions as ''Schneckennudel''<ref>{{cite book |first1=Johann Andreas |last1=Schmeller |title=Bayerisches Wörterbuch: Sammlung von Wörtern und Ausdrücken, die in den lebenden Mundarten sowohl, als in der älteren und ältesten Provincial-Litteratur des Königreichs Bayern |publisher=Oldenbourg |date=1877 |pages=567 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HrD7F78omiAC&dq=schneckenf%C3%B6rmig+gewickeltes+backwerk+schmeller&pg=PA567 |access-date=2019-01-07}}</ref>), where the name is ''Schnecke'' (which is the German singular of ''Schnecken''), and in other parts of northern Europe. They are more commonly known as ''pain au raisin'' in France. Popular variants are Nussschnecken (filled with nuts and often raisins as well), Mohnschnecken (with a poppyseed filling) and Zimtschnecken, which are quite similar to cinnamon rolls and Chelsea buns.
==Poland== In the Polish language, word for a sweet bun is ''drożdżówka'' or ''słodka bułka'', the word for sweet bun with blueberries is ''jagodzianka'', the word for a sweet roll with cinnamon (cinnamon roll) is ''cynamonka'', the word for a sweet bun with strawberries is ''truskawianka'', and the word for sweet bun with raspberries is ''malinianka''. Sweet buns are popular type of pastry in Poland, especially for a second breakfast.
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==See also== * List of sweet breads * {{portal-inline|Food}}
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