I had such fun making the Cinnamon Star Bread bakealong with my son-in-law. His turned out perfectly and mine was not nearly as pretty. John flipped his bottom layer of dough as he was rolling it out and his circle was shaped beautifully. I wasn't as careful and a thin spot ended up making a bit of mess. I learned that it is very important that your bottom layer be of uniform thickness and ready to take on the weight of the next layers or you will have a problem when it comes time to twist pieces to form the star. My bread tasted wonderfully, but it wasn't as pretty as my son-in-law's creation. Therefore the family ate mine and the "beautiful" one was given as a gift. While the recipe is forgiving, one does need to be careful to roll out uniform thickness layers. I didn't have the sweet dough flavor so added 1 tsp vanilla and 1 tsp butter vanilla emulsion and the flavor was great.

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