Submitted by Bridgestone on October 8, 2008 - 12:05am

Sweet filled buns

I did a quick search so as not to clutter this board with redundant posts but only found post about savory filled buns.

Here are some pictures and instructions for Swedish-style filled buns.

Wrapping the dough around the filling of these is a considerable hassle but the end result is worth the trouble!

You'll need:

about 2 1/2 cups of flour (you'll need to judge the exact amount by the dough's consistancy), 3/4 cup whole milk, an egg, 5 tablespoons butter, 25 grams cake yeast, 3 tablespoons sugar. (Not pictured, 1 tsp salt)

If you've got a powerful mixer you can really just dump all of this in the bowl and mix for about 20 minutes (adding the salt after 10 minutes).  Otherwise, melt the butter and heat the milk to 97 degrees F.  Dissolve the sugar into the butter and milk.  Add this  mixture to a mixing bowl and dissolve the yeast in it.  Dump in your flour and egg, mix to combine and knead until smooth and elastic.

After kneading, let the dough rest and rise until doubled in volume (about an hour).

Next, assemble your fillings and dump out the dough onto a prepared work surface.

I went ahead and did two fillings: applesauce and vanilla creme.  The applesauce was made with ripe Antonopka (ripe in October, good eating, excellent baking and applesauce) apples from our tree (plus sugar and cinammon).  You want an assertive and thick applesauce for these buns.  I've documented making vanilla creme elsewhere.

Roll the dough out to roughly 1/4 inch thickness and stamp out 3.5 inch rounds.

Spoon about 1 tablespoon of filling onto each round.  It's really tempting to spoon out too much.  However, this will only cause headaches later so resist!  Besides, there are worse things in life than leftover vanilla creme...

Carefully fold the edges of each round up and around the filling.  You can't get any of the filling on the edge or it simply won't seal.  Pinch all of the edges together and seal as well as possible (although be careful to not strech the dough too thin on the filling side...).  Something like this:

Place the filled and seal buns on parchment-lined baking sheets and let rest...

... and rise until nearly doubled in size (about 30 minutes):

Bake in a very hot (500 degree) oven for about 10 minutes.  Keep an eye on them, though.  These came out in the nick of time:

While still warm, brush the buns with melted butter and roll in sugar.

Do yourself a favor and eat a few while still warm!

The vanilla creme:

The applesauce:

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Oh, yum!

Somebody get me a napkin, please!

These look scrumptious!

The mind boggles when thinking about possibilities for fillings.  This could be a hit like the blueberry cream cheese braids.

Paul

Thanks, Paul.  They really

Thanks, Paul.  They really are worth the effort.

Even though they are quite good on their own, I'm toying with adding a pinch of nutmeg to the dough next time in order to increase their doughnut-ishness.

Sweet Filled Buns

Hi Bridgestone:

They loot great!! I think I'll dump my perfect sourdough quest and go for these.

Caroline 

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Holy moly, nice buns

If that doesn't deserve a  5 star rating, I don't know what does!  Awesome job Bridgestone, looks like something out of Gourmet Magazine!

-Mark

http://thebackhomebakery.com

Thanks, Mark!  I greatly

Thanks, Mark!  I greatly appreciate the compliment.

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YUM!

Those look wonderful.  Is the vanilla cream vanilla pudding?  When I do apple filling for bread I find that jarred apple butter works better than jarred apple sauce (for those of us who do not have out own apple trees of course :)  I think I know what I am baking this weekend!

Sharon

www.thebraidedloaf.com

Hi Sharon, I use homemade

Hi Sharon,

I use homemade vanilla custard for the creme (egg yolks, cream & milk, sugar and vanilla - normally beans but extract this time).  If vanilla pudding will survive the baking then it should work fine.  I'd probably, however, beef it up a little with some vanilla extract or even a scraped vanilla pod.

WOW! Those look fantastic

Bridgestone,

Your sweet filled buns look terrific!  You did an outstanding job of making and baking them and your photo presentation, of the steps involved in making your buns, is worthy of publication in any first rate baking book.  Thanks so much for sharing.

Howard

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OH,Wow, lovely buns , I

OH,Wow, lovely buns , I have to try it as soon as possible , it look so yummy.

Thanks for sharing , and your pictures were really great.

Thanks a lot.

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hi Bridgestone

Lovely!  Will be trying these for sure - thanks for posting - great pictures.

Regards

Tracey

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Ohhhh..so, so ...

enticing..Wow those look good! I love your pics, especially the dough in motion! I have way too many "to try" recipes on my favorites list..Thanks

sweet filled rolls

I made these for my girls because I was craving jelly donuts - I used Harry and Davi's blackberry jam.  Oh my goodness they were fabulous!

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