Norway · dessert · English edition
Skolebrød
A cardamom-scented bun with custard in the centre, icing and desiccated coconut.
12 servings · 80 minutes (estimated)

Ingredients
Quantities for 12 servings.
- 600 g Flour
- 300 ml Milk, warm
- 10 g Dry yeast
- 120 g Butter
- 100 g Sugar
- 2 tsp Ground cardamom
- 1 piece Egg
- 400 ml Milk for the custard
- 3 piece Egg yolks
- 30 g Cornflour
- 200 g Icing sugar
- 80 g Desiccated coconut
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 1 tsp Salt
Method
- Dissolve the yeast in the warm milk with a spoon of sugar and leave it ten minutes.
- Knead a dough from the flour, yeast mixture, sugar, cardamom, egg, salt and softened butter, working it fifteen minutes.
- Let it rise somewhere warm for an hour, until doubled.
- Cook a custard of milk, yolks, cornflour, sugar and vanilla and cool it completely under film.
- Divide the dough into twelve balls, set them on a tray and prove them forty minutes.
- Press a well into each bun with the base of a glass and spoon custard into it.
- Bake at 200 °C for twelve minutes, cool them, pipe the icing in a ring and scatter the coconut.
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