Sticky buns are a type of dessert or breakfast sweet roll that generally consist of rolled pieces of leavened dough — sometimes containing brown sugar or cinnamon — compressed together to form a kind of flat loaf corresponding to the size of the pan in which they are to be baked.

Sticky buns have been consumed since the Middle Ages, at which time cinnamon became more prominent.

[1] Wherever 18th-century German settlers (such as the Pennsylvania Dutch) went, sticky buns have remained long after many other cultural traits have disappeared.

[citation needed] In Venezuela, there is a very similar local version of them called golfeado.

The main difference between them is the ground fresh cheese on top that gives the bun a very particular sweet-salty taste.