Butterkaka - cinnamon bun cake amongst almond glue together with vanilla custard

I've come upwards to realize that the Swedish classics are grossly underestimated , inwards my volume at least. I hateful , the cinnamon bun as well as the semla are definitely on my elevation x listing of favorite pastries. Maybe fifty-fifty my elevation v list. So I'm form of working my way through the classics as well as thoroughly enjoying it.
If you're a fan of cinnamon buns (and my guess is that you lot are) , you lot volition looove this recipe. It's precisely similar cinnamon buns except filled amongst homemade almond glue (the classic recipe uses the "regular" cinnamon bun filling though) as well as vanilla custard.
And I know that everyone who ever made this recipe inwards Sweden makes a joke almost it. 'Butter' agency grumpy inwards Swedish. Tasting this volition non brand you lot grumpy. Quite the opposite. On the other manus , Swedish is form of a funny language. We exercise the same give-and-take for 'married' equally nosotros practise for 'poison' ('gift'). Strange. And yes , I am aware of the fact that 'kaka' agency something completely dissimilar inwards for certain languages.. In Swedish it just agency cookie or cake. Today's Swedish lesson. But I digress.

You know what is annoying? I was shooting a keen tutorial to give-up the ghost amongst this recipe but when I was done , I realized I had accidentally laid my photographic goggle box camera on manual focus. Doh. The photographic goggle box camera was on my tripod as well as could barely encounter what I was doing. Needless to enjoin , I practise non similar working amongst a tripod. I practise promise the instructions are clear plenty anyway!

BUTTERKAKA
WITH ALMOND PASTE AND VANILLA CUSTARD
10-12 buns , makes ii xx cm cakes

Recipe adapted from here

Notes on this recipes
-This recipe does brand 12 buns fifty-fifty if at that topographic point are solely nine pictured. I baked 3 of them separately as well as hence nosotros would convey something to nibble on whilst I was shooting! And also , I was eager to exercise my smaller cast Fe pan.
-If you lot can't detect fresh yeast , I'm for certain the dry out varieties would also work! I'm non as well as hence used to working amongst dry out yeast though. Google is your friend!
-I ever exercise salted butter when baking , if using unsalted , brand for certain to add together en extra pinch where butter is used.
-The custard is plenty for a fairly pocket-size blob inwards each bun , if you're a fan of custard as well as yell back you lot desire to a greater extent than , brand for certain to double the custard recipe.
-If you lot can't detect pearl carbohydrate (I'm pretty for certain you lot tin purchase some at Ikea!) , coarse carbohydrate similar demerara would also work.

For the dough
xx g fresh yeast
1 loving cup (250 ml) milk
5 tbsp (75 g) softened butter
1/3 loving cup (70 g) granulated sugar
3/4 tsp solid soil cardamom
2 3/4 - 3 cups (390 - 420 g) all purpose flour
1/4 tsp salt

For the custard
1/3 loving cup + 1 1/2 tbsp (100 ml) heavy cream
3 tbsp milk
1/2 vanilla bean
1 large egg yolk
1 1/2 tbsp granulated sugar
1 tbsp cornstarch

For the almond glue filling
1/3 loving cup + 1 tbsp (45 g) almond flour (or 45 g whole almonds)
2 tbsp granulated sugar
2-3 tbsp H2O
iv tbsp (60 g) softened butter
1/2 tbsp solid soil cinnamon
pinch of salt

For the eggwash
1 egg
Pearl carbohydrate

Dough
1. Crumble the yeast into a large bowl. Heat the milk to 37°C (98°F) as well as pour over the yeast. Stir until yeast is dissolved.
2. Add the butter , carbohydrate , cardamom , flour (beginning amongst the smaller amount as well as add together to a greater extent than if needed) as well as tabular array salt , as well as knead the dough past times machine almost fifteen minutes , or past times manus almost xx minutes , until the dough is polish as well as shiny as well as doesn't stick to the bowl.
3. Cover the bowl amongst a construct clean kitchen towel as well as allow ascent until doubled inwards size , almost 60-90 minutes. Meanwhile , laid upwards the custard as well as almond glue filling.

Custard
1. Combine cream as well as milk inwards a pocket-size saucepan. Scrape the seeds out of the vanilla edible bean as well as add together seeds as well as edible bean to the saucepan. Cook , stirring constantly , over medium estrus until mixture is hot but non boiling. Remove from heat.
2. Whisk together the yolk , carbohydrate as well as cornstarch inwards a bowl until combined. Pour the hot milk mixture over the egg yolk mixture , stirring constantly. Remove the vanilla bean.
3. Return mixture to saucepan over depression heat. Cook , stirring constantly , until mixture thickens. It should larn quite thick , almost similar softened whipped butter. Do non allow it boil or it volition curdle. Pour into a bowl as well as allow cool. Cover the surface of the custard amongst plastic roll to avoid a pare from forming.

Almond glue filling
1. Put the almond flour as well as carbohydrate inwards a nutrient processor or blender. Add H2O (beginning amongst the smaller amount) as well as pulse until a glue forms. Add the softened butter , cinnamon as well as tabular array salt as well as pulse until smooth. Set aside piece rolling out the dough.

Roll out dough
1. Heat the oven to 200°C (390°F).
2. On a lightly floured surface , knead the dough for 1 infinitesimal or until polish as well as shiny.
3. Roll out the dough to a large rectangle , almost 48 x 25 cm (19 x 10 inches).
4. Spread an fifty-fifty layer of the almond glue filling over the dough. Roll upwards dough tightly from i long side (so you lot convey a ringlet that is 48 cm long). Cut ringlet into 12 slices (you practise non require to cut down the edges , just seat them cutting side upwards inwards the pan).
5. Prepare ii 20-22 cm (8-9 inch) pans. Put a piece of parchment newspaper within equally pictured , or grease them amongst butter. Put vi dough slices inwards each pan , making for certain to non crowd them likewise much - at that topographic point should live a fiddling chip of infinite betwixt them (the moving painting below is afterward rising).
6. Cover the pans amongst construct clean kitchen towels as well as allow ascent for xl minutes.

Filling the buns + baking
1. Carefully brand a pocket-size hole inwards the substance of each bun , using the dorsum of a spoon or your finger for example. Put the custard inwards a piping purse fitted amongst a circular tip as well as pipage a blob of custard inwards each hole. You tin also just spoon the custard into the buns , but piping makes it a whole lot easier.
2. Whisk the egg inwards a pocket-size bowl. Brush the buns amongst the egg , endeavor to operate just about the custard filling amongst the brush. Sprinkle amongst pearl sugar.
3. Bake the buns inwards the lowest exercise of the oven until golden dark-brown , almost thirty minutes. If the tops are browning likewise much , carefully identify a piece of aluminum foil where needed.
4. Remove from the oven as well as allow cool nether a construct clean kitchen towel. They're best eaten the same hateful solar daytime , but they're also quite delicious the next. They also freeze good when baked. Just brand for certain to allow them cool completely earlier freezing.