Making Pizza Hut Cinnamon Sticks At Home | But Better 

Hey Joshua, you should start a series called "But Simple" where you simplify extravagant dishes so regular home cooks can make them at home without spending the entire day in the kitchen. Love your stuff, keep it up!

They aren't made with leftover dough. They're made with breadstick dough, which is in entirely separate boxes to the pizza dough (it's all frozen and proofed overnight or day of in a proofer when they run out of prepped dough). The cinnamon sticks are just an order of breadsticks cut in half and dusted with cinnamon instead of breadstick seasoning. The cinnamon mix comes in huge bags and is the same stuff that Taco Bell uses. It straight up comes in Taco Bell branded bags. Worked delivery with them for 3 years and had to prep countless pans of dough.

For those who don’t own scale like me; 800 g(flour) = 5 cups 510g(water) = 2 cup 2 tbs 17g (salt) = 2.98 tsp 8g (instant yeast) = 2.5 tsp

Made this today and it's officially my new favorite Papa recipe so far (I've made a lot). I initially screwed up by adding more water than stated thinking the dough looked too dry (didn't pay attention to the video) but I easily added more flour and ended up with more sticks. They were huge and ultra fluffy and the brown butter put it on another level. This is your sign to make it yourself. I'm already craving more

Daring to out pizza the hut again huh. They warned you once.

we need more Kendrick man sounds like a culinary critic, he knows his stuff!

Joshua's versions always look like the promotional photos of the food that you are getting and I can't wait to make this once I am settled into my new place

Joshua, every Sunday afternoon, my family sit down and watch your newest episode before our naps. This one had the whole family rolling. Thanks for the laughs!!

Your team should give you challenges, whether technique, style or just something that seems impossible - I reckon it would make a great series.

For those wondering about the baker's percentages for the dough: 64% water @94F/35C 1% yeast 2% salt 50g of flour per bun, resulting in 16 buns each weighing 83.5g using the amount of flour Josh uses above (800g).

Damn this Joshua guy is pretty good at cooking, he should become a chef or something

Can we please appreciate the editing in these videos. Bravo Mr Editor, bravo.

The smoke alarm issue is probably because it's an ionization smoke alarm which is better at detecting small particles like when using your oven, but not so good at big particles such as smoke. Technology Connections has a video explaining better

Kendrick needs his own show offering commentary on your recipes.

You are the most Chef I have ever kept watching till now! You got it all

Love the whole crew, everyone is awesome! Kendrick and Omar could almost have their own spin-offs though lol

Need more of Kendrick’s reviews after Josh cooks that was awesome

First time showing us how to make dough without a stand mixed. Thanks Josh! ❤️

That dude who did the taste testing is my new hero.

I use to work a Pizza Hut and we just use the same dough for bread sticks and cheese sticks as we do for cinnamon sticks. But I'm sure more people can figure that one out. But the Cinnabon Minis were a different monster also together. Imagine prepping thirty of bread sticks and thirty Cinnabon Minis. Man I'm glad I don't do that job any more. But I kind of miss the free food and basically getting forty percent off everything.

Man, i’m on a special diet and from the moment i landed on your account (like 3-4 days ago) i cannot stop watching your videos + thinking about all the stuff i’m gonna make the moment i’m able to have my cheat meal… bless you papa, sending love from Serbia

hi josh! ive been watching your videos since forever but i just wanted you to know my boyfriend suprised me with your cook book and im so excited to use it! love you lots!

"He can't keep getting away with this!" What an absolute legend!

been loving the videos lately, really helping me be able to make my own meals 🥰

Hey Joshua, we love you very much thanks for entertaining us constantly, brother 🤝

I was LITERALLY thinking about making this exact thing today at home. Thanks man!

Sorry for the super late comment. But you should try this mix. 200g golden suger, 200g soft butter, 25g of cinnemon and 200g of almond paste (50-60% almonds) and mix that together, its the filling we use at the store here in norway to fill our cinnemon buns

It's literally the middle of the night, but I reeaally want to make this. It looks sooo good!!!

Neat fact: since Pizza Hut is part of the same mother company as Taco Bell. We use the same cinnamon sugar for the cinnasticks that they use for the cinnamon twists.

I have been waiting for this my entire life thank you 🤤🤤🤤

8:50 bro was like "tf im gon hear ion got headphones" then heard the crunch bro got excited

Fixing to make these. I got your book and my mom was craving cinnamon rolls. I didn't have the recipe written from one of your videos, so not wanting to waste time, I used the recipe from your cookbook..... OMFG!!!! Those cinnamon rolls are on another LEVEL! 😋😋😋😋 It's been several weeks ago that I made them and my mom keeps mentioning how good and fluffy they were!! Maybe she's dropping hints so I can make more...?

Hello french homie in the house just want to say that your french is very agréable aux oreilles. Keep up the good work guys. You innovate cuisine every god dang video. Great team, great cook, great bouffe.

Joshua always delivers the best content my man

Crazy that I was just craving these n then saw a video of you making them Hallelujah 😋

Hey man, whenever I have a bad day your videos really make me laugh and make my day better!

Hey josh! Just found your channel a few weeks ago and loving your content! I think you’re a super talented cook and I would love to see you do a “But vegan” series, where you show how to make classic dishes but vegan :)

Regarding your complaints about the smoke alarm: you probably have an ionic smoke detector, which uses a small amount of a radioactive isotope to ionize the air in a chamber and let current flow between two electrodes that make up the chamber. Ionic smoke detectors are much less sensitive than photoelectric smoke detectors to the more-visible smoke from smoldering fires but are more sensitive to very fine particulate smoke. Thus, ionic smoke detectors are more likely to cause false alarms from an oven in a kitchen, but are less sensitive to the denser, coarser smoke from smoking the butter. Photoelectric smoke detectors use light and a light sensor that is shielded from the light; when smoky air flows through the chamber with the light and the sensor, the light illuminates the smoke and the light sensor can detect the illuminated smoke. Photoelectric smoke detectors are much more sensitive to the coarser smoke from smoldering fires like the one used to smoke the butter, triggering as much as *an hour* faster than ionic smoke detectors in response to smoldering fires. However, photoelectric smoke detectors are somewhat less sensitive to the finer smoke that comes from "fast fires"/flaming fires, so they trigger 30 to 90 seconds *slower* than ionic smoke detectors in response to fast fires that flame without a smoldering stage (many, if not most, fires smolder for some time before they flame). Thus, an ionic smoke detector, which you likely have, would have a tendency to trigger in response to almost-invisible, fine-particle smoke coming from your oven without reacting quickly to the coarse-particle, visible smoke from the smoldering compressed wood when you smoked your butter. Generally, using photoelectric smoke detectors would result in fewer false alarms from the kitchen (due to them being somewhat less sensitive to the fine-particle smoke that tends to be more common with cooking) and would be faster to respond to that coarse-particle smoke from the smoldering wood from smoking the butter. TL;DR: You probably have ionic smoke detectors; photoelectric smoke detectors would give you less false alarms while likely being faster to respond to coarse, visible smoke from smoldering fires like the one used to smoke the butter.

I bought the cook book, changed my life. I HATED cooking. This channel made cooking rewarding to me for some reason. I think about 90% of it is the “But Better” series you do. I love recreating common fast food dishes and making them absolutely slap. Keep it up man!

A BUT BETTER BOOK MUST BE MADE!

They look delicious!

8:22 "when you pull your stick out of it"

This one is really special. Nice work.

Yo, thank you for always upping your game with the smoked butter 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Former Pizza Hut cook here. We didn't make the cinnamon sticks with leftover dough, we actually had dough specifically set aside for them and the regular breadsticks. It was the same dough as the pan crust pizzas (we would occasionally use the Dinner Box pizza dough cut into sticks to make them when we didn't prep enough breadstick dough pans up), put into a rectangular deep dish pizza pan with a bunch of vegetable oil on the bottom. The "butter" we used was labelled "Buttery-Flavored Seasoning Oil," so basically liquid margarine with extra artificial butter flavoring. It was put on the sticks with the cinnamon-sugar mix before baking, and they're baked covered to keep them from burning.

Dude, you make cooking fun AND you really open our eyes as to what we are eating at fast food places and general restaurants ❤️❤️❤️ you’ve helped my anxiety as well so thank you, good sir

Seriously in heaven every time I look at your cinnastix version 🤤Yummm

Yeah I'll definitely be making these. Thanks Joshy Josh!

Imagine making these, but with croissant dough instead. I feel like that would be absolutely delicious.

Amazing vid! Looks delicious. For your next video, could you try making Cici’s( a popular pizza place) brownies? Thanks

UNBELIEVABLE!!!! This is so GOOD!!!, Wow. Not even when dining in do they taste as good as yours. Can't wait to try all the other recipes on the other videos. You sold me on the cookbook also. Lol

I don’t even like cinnamon rolls but these looks sooooooo good. It’s amazing how presentation is everything

9:27 I feel Kendrick’s pain, whenever Joshua ALWAYS ruins the things we love to eat!

Joshua's recreations is literally the expectations and what it should look like vs. the sad truth of the original

From The Cabinet; HI JOSH! Now that I actually saw the episode, it was great, going to make some this upcoming weekend. Looks amazing, as always!

Made these and they were freaking amazing!!! Huge hit with my family!

I've got to try this one, love your recipes, Joshua. Much love from Ukraine 💙💛

Looking good josh, I guess the cinnamon sticks look fine also

hell yeah! a step by step way to make these better! my last go at it didnt turn out to well

I will attempt to try these, Ty!!!☺️

Pizza Hut stopped selling the "Dessert Pizza" (here in Canada) years ago. Its way better! Josh, Please help! We need the Dessert Pizza, But Better!

He’s making so many fast food enemies I can’t keep count at this point 😂

I opened this vid and knw I had to make it, I just put the dough into the fridge to cold rise, can't wait to try it!

I used to work for a Pizza Hut. I don’t know whether it’s reused dough in the factory, but in the store itself it’s a separate breadstick dough. It comes to the store frozen and gets proofed overnight for the next day. For the regular breadsticks you put them in the pizza oven and add butter and seasoning on top after, but the cinnamon sticks you put the butter and cinnamon-sugar on first and then cook it with a lid

You should do the Domino's stuffed cheesy bread!! It's SOOOO good

This looks so good! Too bad it’s so complicated to make at least for me 😢

yes im excited!!!!!! this one i've been waiting for!

My kids say this was awesome and you should definitely do more of these kind a things and we loved it so thanks for the video

You should definitely make a German chocolate cake!

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD please do the taco bell cinebon delights! They are perfect and cannot be improved as long as you eat them fresh

This has to be the most delicious looking thing you’ve ever made

Saw this one and made it to the comment about "best bread ever!" and immediately went back and watched the garlic bread one again. Then I made these sticks and put the garlic bread topping on it 😎 Epic stuff Josh

The next thing you should make is pizza huts garllic bread sticks and butter garlic sauce

I think they changed the “icing”. I remember it being actual icing but now it’s basically sweetened condensed milk.

Kendrick's crunchiness sound test always gets me into tears 😂

They are gorgeous! Thx. ❤

You should do Bob Evans' biscuits and sausage gravy. Honestly would just like to see how you would make a sausage gravy. :)

If josh does a "But Simple", I'd also like to see a series called "More Complicated", where he takes simpler dishes and overly-complicates them. I'd love to see how Josh would turn sloppy joes, for example, into an overly-complicated, multi-day-process, gourmet experience...

Ima make this TODAY!

I wish i could chill with you and joke around. Your awsome mr.

You've got the wrong type of smoke alarm. Ionization smoke alarms go off from clean burning fire, optical ones from visible smoke. In general, optical ones are also safer as most fires start smoky.

6:49 This likely has to do with the type of smoke alarm you use. Smoke alarms that use radiation to detect smoke don't tend to pick up visible smoke very well, which comes mostly from the smoldering stage of a fire, but are very good at detecting very small, nearly invisible smoke particles, which are common in an active fire. This is why opening the oven sets it off, but the clearly visible smoke from your smoldering wood doesn't. If you instead switched to optical based smoke detectors, it would detect the smoldering from the wood and get set off, but not the oven opening. Generally, optical smoke detectors are a safer option because they detect the smoldering stage of a fire, before it is an actual problem, while some radiation based smoke detectors won't even detect a smoldering fire when the entire room is filled with impenetrable smoke. The only slight advantage of radiation based smoke detectors is that in a very sudden, active fire, they tend to activate sooner, but this is on an order of seconds, while in a smoldering fire, optical detectors are set off tens of minutes, even over an hour before radiation based detectors

Im craving these!

I can stay hydrated with how much my mother is watering.

What if I DO use reg-yoo-lahr butt-tahr to brush the sticks before baking? Will I be thrown into the pit of shame?

When I worked at PH in 2010 we would use breadstick dough, smear melted butter/oil on top, and sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top before we baked

Yes yes yes I am so here for this

One of the best RU-vidrs ever

Can you please make the Mexican Pizza from Taco Bell at home but better please?

9:23 Joshua, you must sing more

My god I’ve waited my whole life for this video.

this was a fantastic video 😆

I can’t believe they charged you almost 23 bucks for some cinnamon sticks.. I get there’s a delivery fee also but still that’s nuts

Wish the old Josh was still making informative videos. The memes are a bit much. GL

This dude is single handedly bringing down every food franchise

Bro, smoking your butter is such a flex, I'm stunned. Good shit bro!

We challenge you to a pizza hut style garlic bread.

I’d be interested in seeing some videos in a “But Faster” series. Show us how to make quick meals at home faster than you could by driving out to a restaurant, ordering, and returning.

AMAZING FOOD AMAZING BEATS!!!!

Ton français s’améliore de jours en jour Joshua Tu mérite un **papa kiss**