What is a sticky bun? Well, the term can refer to a whole range of different sweet rolls that bear some similarities. These are often dessert or breakfast rolls, or pastries.
The sticky bun is not that recent an invention; they date back to the Middle ages, and were common in Germany. One reason they are not even older is due to one ingredient commonly used - the spice, cinnamon, which used to be rather rarer and more expensive.
The dough of a sticky bun, which may contain the aforementioned cinnamon, or perhaps brown sugar, is pressed into a baking pan. The pan is first lined with the "sticky" ingredients, such as honey and maple syrup, as well as perhaps nuts, sugar and butter. The lining then coats the surface of the buns, making them sticky.
In theory, the resulting cooked pastry would be torn apart into separate pieces. This isn't always as easy as it sounds, especially with homemade sticky buns.
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