Definition

Noun: A sweet, individual pastry made from rolled yeast dough that is typically coated with a mixture of sugar (often brown sugar), butter, and spices like cinnamon, and sometimes containing nuts or raisins. Before baking, the pan is lined with a sticky, sweet glaze, often containing honey, sugar, and butter, which caramelizes during baking and coats the bun.

Usage

A "sticky bun" is a specific type of sweet breakfast pastry or dessert. It is named for the sticky, sweet glaze that coats it. It is typically served warm.

Examples

• For breakfast, she ordered a coffee and a warm sticky bun.
• The bakery is famous for its caramel pecan sticky buns.
• The sticky bun was so gooey and delicious.

Advanced Usage

• The term can be used metaphorically to describe something that is pleasantly adhesive or difficult to detach from, though this is informal.
  • After the rain, the mud was like sticky bun glaze on my shoes.

Variants and Related Words

• Cinnamon roll / cinnamon bun: A similar rolled pastry that is often iced but may not have the characteristic bottom layer of sticky glaze. A sticky bun is a specific, glazed variant of a cinnamon roll.
• Honey bun: A similar sweet pastry, often pre-packaged, that may be iced or glazed.
• Caramel roll: A term sometimes used interchangeably with "sticky bun," emphasizing the caramelized sugar glaze.

Synonyms

• Sweet roll
• Caramel bun
• Chelsea bun (a related British pastry)

Related Idioms or Phrases

• (To be) in a sticky situation: This common idiom uses "sticky" metaphorically to mean "difficult" but is not directly derived from "sticky bun." The word "sticky" is the shared element.
  • His lie got him into a sticky situation.

Noun

1. rolled dough spread with sugar and nuts then sliced and baked in muffin tins with honey or sugar and butter in the bottom