Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, swedish semla. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Swedish Semla is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Swedish Semla is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
The semla - a small, wheat flour bun, flavoured with cardamom and filled with almond paste and whipped cream - has become something of a carb-packed icon in Sweden. The traditions of semla are rooted in fettisdag (Shrove Tuesday, or Fat Tuesday) when the buns were eaten at a last celebratory feast before the Christian fasting period of Lent. A semla is a Swedish cream bun (a cardamom version of Scottish cream buns), which has a marzipan type filling, whipped cream and dusted with powdered sugar. I created this semla recipe from my cream bun recipe and a Swedish friend's recipe for the filling.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook swedish semla using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Swedish Semla:
- Get Semla bun:
- Make ready 12 g active yeast
- Get 150 ml warm milk
- Prepare 40 g melted butter
- Take 1 egg
- Prepare Pinch salt
- Make ready 2 tbsp sugar
- Prepare 1 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1 tbsp ground cardamom
- Make ready 210 g flour (3,5dl)
- Take Filling:
- Prepare 50 g almond paste
- Prepare 400 ml heavy cream/whipped cream
- Take 50 ml milk
- Make ready Flour sugar
Once yeast has softened, stir flour mixture into milk mixture until a soft dough forms. The Swedish Lenten bun is mostly known as a semla —or semlor in plural. You may know it by its other, more sinister name: Kingslayer. "Fat Tuesday should be prohibited and the Lenten bun forcibly expelled from Sweden, as it has committed regicide". The semla is the most popular pastry in Sweden during January and February.
Steps to make Swedish Semla:
- Mix melted butter and warm milk and pour into the active yeast. Stir until it well Incorporated.
- Add beaten egg, salt, sugar, baking powder, and ground cardamom.
- Pour the flour little by little. And knead for 10-15 minutes.
- Cover the dough with plastic wrap, and leave it for 40 minutes.
- After 40 minutes, knead the dough again for another 5 minutes and divide it into 6 small pieces.
- Cover it again with plastic wrap and leave it for 15 minutes.
- Bake the dough in a preheated oven of a 200 degree celcius for 8-10 minutes. Wait until it cooled down.
- Cut the top of the buns, and scrape the inner buns.
- On the other bowl, combine the scrapped buns with almond paste and milk. Adjust the milk amount as your preference.
- Fill in the empty bun with the almond filling. Top it with whipped cream. And don't forget to put the lid on.
- Pour the powder sugar on top of it and enjoy the semla!!
You may know it by its other, more sinister name: Kingslayer. "Fat Tuesday should be prohibited and the Lenten bun forcibly expelled from Sweden, as it has committed regicide". The semla is the most popular pastry in Sweden during January and February. So you can imagine how crazy the Swedes are about this sweet little bun. Semla is an old-fashioned Swedish dessert that was originally invented and eaten on Fat Tuesday, the last day of indulgence before Lent. Soon they became one of the favorite Swedish treats and are now commonly eaten from the Christmas period all through Lent.
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