How to Make Nobby Buns

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Last Updated: April 24, 2025 Tested

The recipe for nobby buns is found in the end credits of the film Hot Shots! However, it's in a very compact form, and some important details like baking time are not mentioned. If you don't want to guess while making these tasty cinnamon cookies, follow these steps!

This recipe makes 3 plates of nobby buns, which is approximately 700 grams (1.5 lb)

Ingredients

4 cups (950 ml) (560 g) sifted flour
1 ¹⁄₂ cups (350 ml) (550 g) sugar
1 cup (240 ml) (220 g) butter
2 teaspoons (9.9 ml) (5 g) cinnamon
3 eggs

Steps

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Take it out of the fridge and wait approximately 10 minutes. The butter should not be hard to touch, and you should be able to make noticeable dents in it with your fingers.
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Preheat the oven. Set the temperature to 375 to 400 °F (191 to 204 °C). It will take some time (5 to 15 minutes, depending on your oven) for the oven to reach that temperature, so proceed to the next steps meanwhile.
- Prepare a shallow baking pan by placing a silicone baking sheet, parchment paper, or a similar nonstick surface over it.
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Use a mixer on a low speed. Mix until the butter stops being one block in the middle of the bowl, and is spread across the bottom of the bowl. Ideally, it should also be mixed with most of the sugar.
Open each egg and add its entire content (both the white and the yolk) to the bowl. Mix until everything in the bowl becomes a light-yellow homogeneous mass, like in the above picture.
Continue mixing on low speed until everything is evenly combined. The result should now look like cookie dough.
If the dough is too sticky for this to work, use your hands instead of a teaspoon, but make sure that the heaps are approximately the same size. If you have not done so already, place the baking sheet on the baking pan.
Wear oven gloves and be careful, as the oven is very hot now.
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Bake 7–10 minutes. The smaller you make the buns, the less time they need to bake.
- To test whether the nobby buns are baked enough, stick a toothpick into one of them and look if any dough sticks to it or if any of the dough is still obviously gooey. In both cases, the buns are not baked enough.
The cookies are very hot, so either use a fork to collect them or wait until they become cold enough to touch. Wear oven gloves while touching anything inside the oven.