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No kidding – these are the best birthday buns I have ever made, so give them a try. You can ice them with a mix of icing sugar and water and dip them in coconut flakes. If you do not frost them, you cut them and eat them with butter, cheese or jam.
A traditional danish birthday party is held in the afternoon. One serves coffee or hot chocolate with a layered cake, birthday buns and small danish cookies.
Birthday buns
Light and fluffy birthday buns with frosting a coconut toping
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Servings 20 buns
Ingredients
- 50 grams yeast
- 200 milliliters milk
- 2 eggs - large or medium
- 1 teaspoon sugar or honey
- 1 teaspoon fine salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cardamom optional
- 500 grams flour evt. pizza flour or high protein flour
- 125 grams soft butter
- a bit of oil for the bowl and dough
Instructions
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Dissolve the yeast in cold milk.
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Whisk in the eggs and add sugar and cardamom
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Add about half the flour. Stir it thoroughly to activate the yeast and add salt
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Add butter and kneed in enough flour to stop the dough from sticking to the table.
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Add 1 table spoon of oil into a bowl. Turn the dough around in the bowl to coat it in oil. Cover the bowl and let it rest till it has doubled in size (about 40-60 min)
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Flour the table top and pour the dough out on it. Knead it lightly.
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Divide the dough in 4. Roll each piece into a sausage and divide each into 5 pieces. So you end up with 20 buns.
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Shape each piece into a bun
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Rest the buns again on baking trays until the double in size - that takes about half an hour. Brush them with egg or water.
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While they rest - turn on the oven at 220 C / 430 F
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Place the buns in the lower part of the oven. Splash in 2 dl of cold water into the hot oven: this will create steam.
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Close the oven quickly and bake them for 10 minutes.
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Turn the oven down to 200 C / 400 F and make them till they are finished (a few more minutes)
Recipe Notes
Source: Politikens Store Bagebog by Anne Majgaard