Fastelavnsboller, Lent Buns.
Fastelavnsboller comes in many shapes and sizes. There are the pastry kind, filled with custard, or a fruit jam, the choux pastry kind, filled with a custard or another whipped cream-based filling, or the ones made with an enriched dough baked with remonce and/or custard. This one is a mix of the two latter ones. It’s basically an enriched dough with remonce and filled with a raspberry whipped cream.
Back in Denmark this year have been crazy, and the newest trend is selling the most fancy fastelavnsboller. There are huge lines to the bakeries to get your hands on these cakes, maybe the Corona restrictions made people want to have some extra special, I don’t know. Here is my contribution to this craziness.
Makes 15-18
Ingredients:
Dough:
500 ml milk
150 g butter, salted
1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
50 g fresh compressed yeast, or 4 teaspoons dry yeast
800 g all-purpose flour (hold some back, to see if the dough need it all)
150 g sugar
1 teaspoon ground cardamom
1 pinch of salt
Remonce:
75 g butter, salted, room-temperature
75 g sugar
75 g marzipan or almond paste (with over 60% almonds)
Raspberry whipped cream:
500 ml heavy whipping cream
4 tablespoons raspberry jam
2 teaspoons chambord (raspberry liqueur)
1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
1 tablespoon confectionery (powdered) sugar
Directions:
Remonce:
Mix the sugar and marzipan well. Add butter little by little until it’s just incorporated. Be careful not to over mix or the remonce will be runny when baked.
Dough:
In a large bowl mix most of the flour, I save about 1 cup, with the rest of the dry ingredients including the dry yeast if using.
In a saucepan heat milk and butter until finger warm, you want all the butter melted, remove pan from heat. Mix in the fresh compressed yeast, if using, and vanilla bean paste.
Mix in the milk/butter mixture and knead the dough in a stand mixer on medium for about 10 minutes until you have a soft, shiny elastic dough. The remaining flour should be added while kneading, if needed. Let the dough rise in a covered bowl for about 90 minutes until it doubled in size.
Divide the dough in two, roll each portion into a rectangle and divide it into 9 squares.
Preheat the oven for 400℉ (200℃).
Put a teaspoon remonce in the center of each square. Fold the four corners up to the center and press to seal all edges, letting the air inside escape. Put fastelavnsboller onto a parchment paper lined baking sheets with joint side down. Leave to rise covered for about 30 minutes. Brush with egg wash and bake for about 10-12 minutes until golden. Let the bun cool completely, before cutting and filling.
Raspberry whipped cream:
Mix the raspberry jam with the liqueur and vanilla bean paste in a little bowl and set aside. Whip the heavy whipping cream with the sugar until you have s medium stiff cream. Gently fold in the raspberry mixture, and put the cream into a piping bag with a star tip.
Cut the top of the buns, and pipe some raspberry cream inside, place the top back on, put a little dot of cream on the top as decoration and sprinkle with freeze-dried raspberry or confectionary/powdered sugar. Serve the fastelavnsbolle with a nice cup warm tea or coffee.
Enjoy!