You could compare it to a cinnamon roll, but it's so much better than that. It's pulla, or at least one kind of pulla. Sini says the Finnish make it all the time, and Monday night, she instructed her FHE group in the art.
The dough seemed simple enough to whip up (eggs, flour, sugar, yeast, butter . . . some other stuff). For many, the dough alone was too good to resist. Sini was slapping hands away from the bowl even before the guys piled on heaps of butter, sugar, and cinnamon.
After creating the little pulla pinwheels you see above, there was a special thumb press that was supposed to add aesthetics (think of making a "thumbs down" sign and then jabbing your thumb into the dough), though no one quite mastered it. Even harder was making perfectly spherical pullas—the next level of difficulty in the tiers of pulla-making (the bread comes in multiple shapes and sizes). It takes a lot of muscle--watch Sini demonstrate below.
After all was said and done, the FHE group left Sini's kitchen smelling sweeter than they found it, which is hard to do considering the smell of fresh-baked brownies wafting when they entered. She's quite the cook. One roommate was munching on Sini's homemade bread throughout the evening, another was raving about her walnut chicken, and the guys praised her weekly confections.
And did you know that Sini can sing BOTH verses of Book of Mormon Stories in Finnish? Yep, much to the chagrin of her FHE peers, who collectively insist that there is only one. What an FHE mom.
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