Wednesday, April 10, 2013

PASTRIES & VARIATIONS: These 2 recipes are my favourite way to utilize a Danish pastry dough. Hope you will like the end products too.



CREAM BUNS WITH APPLE MARMALADE FILLING:

 

 

 

1 quantity of Danish pastry
 
apple marmalade filling:

    1 lb. cooking apples, cored and sliced thinly                      
    1 piece lemon rind
    6 tbsp. brown sugar, firmly packed                        

beaten egg for glazing

warm icing:

    1 cup sifted icing sugar                                           
    2 tbsp. boiling water
    few drops extracts (vanilla, lemon , coffee, etc)

 

 

 

Cook apples and lemon rind in a covered saucepan over gentle heat until soft. Blend in blender until pureed. Return to saucepan, add sugar and cook for 1 to 2 minutes more, stirring to dissolve sugar. Cool before using.

 

Roll out pastry to an oblong divisible by 5 inches. Cut into 5-inch squares. Place a teaspoonful of filling in the center of each. Fold the 4 corners around the filling, sealing well and making sure filling is completely covered. Place on a greased baking sheet with  folded side down. Press lightly on top. Cover and leave to rise in a warm place for 30-60    minutes until doubled in bulk..

 

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Glaze the tops with beaten egg. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes.

 

Dissolve icing sugar in boiling water, then add in desired flavouring. Frost tops of buns while still warm from oven.





CREAM BUNS WITH CRÈME PATISSIERE FILLING:

 

 


crème patisserie filling:

    2 egg yolks                                                 
    1 ¼ cups milk
    ¼ cup sugar                                                
    3 tbsp. all purpose flour
    2 tbsp. cornstarch                                       
    1 egg white
    1-2 drops vanilla extract

 

 

 

To prepare filling:  Mix egg yolks with sugar, flour and cornstarch into a smooth paste, adding a tbsp. of the milk if necessary.  Scald the milk in a saucepan until hot and add to the egg yolk mixture, stirring continuously. Add vanilla extract; then return mixture to the saucepan and to the stove. Cook gently, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a bubbling boil and thickens.  Cool slightly, beat egg white until stiff and fold into mixture.

 

Prepare and proceed with making pastry, in the same way as making Cream Buns with Apple Marmalade filling.  

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