Blueberry Buns with Cream
Ingredients
Yeast Dough
- 25 g fresh yeast
- 150 ml milk
- 320 g wheat flour
- a pinch of salt
- 80 g sugar
- 1 egg
- 70 g butter
And
- 500 g wild berries
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1.5 teaspoons wheat flour or potato starch
Crumble
- 4 tablespoons wheat flour
- 20 g cold butter
- 1 tablespoon sugar
Cream
- 250 g mascarpone or creamy cheese (cold)
- 125 ml 30% cream (cold)
- 3 tablespoons powdered sugar
and
- for brushing dough: 1 egg yolk + 2 tablespoons milk
- powdered sugar for sprinkling
Preparation
- Prepare starter: crumble yeast into a bowl, add a teaspoon of sugar and stir with a spoon until yeast dissolves. Add a teaspoon of flour, pour in warm (not hot!) milk and mix thoroughly. Leave in a warm place for about 20 minutes until it increases in volume several times (if this doesn't happen, the starter preparation process must be repeated from the beginning).
- Sift flour into a bowl (preferably a stand mixer), add a pinch of salt and sugar. Mix, make a well in the center and pour in the risen starter. With a large spoon, gradually incorporate flour toward the center, mixing it with the starter. After a moment add egg and continue stirring, incorporating flour.
- Continue kneading the initially mixed dough with the mixer hook (or by hand) for about 10-15 minutes. After this time, while still kneading, add melted and cooled butter in batches. Knead for another about 5-10 minutes.
- Cover the kneaded dough with a cloth and let rise in a warm place for about 1.5 hours. During this time it should at least double in volume.
- Prepare crumble: pour flour into a bowl, add finely chopped cold butter and rub with your fingers until fine crumbs form, then combine ingredients into a uniform dough. Place in refrigerator.
- Rinse berries and dry thoroughly. Mix about 2/3 of the berries with potato starch or wheat flour and sugar. Leave the rest for sprinkling over the top.
- Remove risen dough from bowl, turn out onto a floured work surface and knead briefly to remove air bubbles. Divide into 8 parts and arrange on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper with spacing between them.
- Shape dough pieces into oval rounds about 7 cm diameter, place in your palm, add 2 tablespoons of berries and seal the edges tightly. Place back on the baking sheet seam-side down. Leave for about 20-25 minutes for further rising.
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C (top and bottom without convection).
- Brush the tops of risen buns with a brush using egg yolk mixed with 2 tablespoons milk and sprinkle with crumble crumbled between your fingers.
- Bake for about 17-20 minutes. Remove from oven and cool.
- Cream: place cold mascarpone or creamy cheese and cold cream in a bowl. Add powdered sugar and salt. Beat with mixer (whisk attachment) into a fluffier consistency, for about 1 minute.
- Place cream in a piping bag or plastic pastry bag with a 1 cm opening cut in the corner. Pipe cream onto cooled buns. Sprinkle with berries and powdered sugar.
Tips
See notes about
yeast dough preparation
.