Swedish Semla Buns Recipe

Swedish semla buns ('semla' in singular and 'semlor' inwards plural) are cardamom buns filled with sweet almond cream together with topped amongst whipped cream, traditionally enjoyed about Lent. Super naughty too super delicious.

braided stollen recipe a while ago). A lot of people don't similar marzipan because they've entirely always tried the supermarket baking aisle variety, but I hope you homemade is in a completely unlike league.

You do require a nutrient processor to brand the marzipan, just a blender will do as well (which I used equally my processor broke long ago). Using a blender is trickier equally you'll continue having to scrape the sides downwards only it does go.

Need visuals? Check out my making-of video on YouTube:


Ready? Let'sec become.

(Makes 4 buns alongside leftover almond cream.)

Ingredients for Buns:

100ml milk
5g fresh or dry out active yeast
ane tsp caster saccharide
200g breadstuff flour
30g more caster sugar
15g unsalted butter, softened
Pinch of table salt
i/two a beaten egg
ane tsp cardamom powder
The other ane/two beaten egg (to glaze)

Ingredients for Almond Cream:

i egg
1 tbsp cornflour
125ml milk
50g caster saccharide
i tsp vanilla
Pinch of salt
25g unsalted butter
150g earth almonds
75g icing saccharide
ii tbsp H2O

Ingredients for Cream Topping:

300ml double cream
2 tbsp icing saccharide (optional)

To Decorate:

Extra icing sugar (for dusting)

Method:

ane. Warm the milk inward a small-scale saucepan a piffling (simply non and so hot it's steaming), and mix it alongside the yeast too 1tsp of caster sugar in a minor bowl. Leave for a few minutes until it'sec bubbly.

2. Add the bubbly yeast mixture, along alongside all the residuum of the bun ingredients (keeping the other one-half of the beaten egg for subsequently) into a large bowl. Stir until it comes together, then role your hands to knead into a dough.

three. Turn out onto a clean function surface and go along kneading for about ten minutes, until the dough becomes super polish in addition to elastic, too springs back when you effort to stretch it.

iv. Pop the dough in a lightly-oiled bowl too embrace amongst clingfilm or a damp kitchen towel. Let it proof until doubled inward size (almost 30 minutes to an hr, depending on how warm your room is).

v. While your dough is proofing, brand the almond cream: first past making the pastry cream by whisking the egg, cornflour, milk, caster sugar, vanilla, salt together. Pour the mixture into a saucepan, popular inwards the butter, in addition to whisk with a balloon whisk over a medium estrus to melt the butter together with thicken the cream. Once it'sec thick enough to go out a trail when yous drag your whisk through it, scoop it into a bowl, comprehend with clingfilm too set up aside to cool completely.

half-dozen.  Next, make the marzipan past popping the earth almonds together with caster carbohydrate into a nutrient procedure or blender. Pulse until it forms a dough-similar consistency, scraping downwards the sides of the container every and then frequently if needed.

7. Whisk the marzipan as well as your cooled pastry cream together: this is your filling. Set it aside together with comport on alongside the dough.

five. Once doubled inwards size, punch the dough back downwards in addition to dissever it into 4 portions, shaping each into a ball and placing them on a baking newspaper-lined tray. Cover in addition to permit them ascent for some other thirty minutes to an hr, once more depending on the warmth of your room.

six. When yous're near ready to bake, preheat the oven to 180°C. Brush the tops of the buns amongst the remaining beaten egg, as well as bake for 12–15 minutes. Set aside to cool.

seven. When y'all're prepare to assemble your semla, whisk the cream together with icing carbohydrate together until it forms soft peaks. Now cut triangular holes into the tops of your buns, taking attention not to get all the way to the other side of the bun together with keeping the cut pieces.

8. To assemble, pipage or so almond cream into the holes y'all've merely made. Pipe generous swirls of cream on summit, together with complete alongside the cut pieces on acme. Dust over a piddling more icing saccharide earlier serving.

Enjoy, and take fun.

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