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Recipe for homemade Danish Fastelavnsboller

Fastelavn is a Nordic holiday celebrated on Sunday or Monday before Ash Wednesday. It has some similarities to the American holiday Halloween where children dress up in costumes and go house to house to beg for candy.It is also a tradition in Denmark to ‘slå katten af tønden’ – ‘beat the cat in the barrel’. It is a wooden barrel that is filled with candy inside and in the old days they actually put real cats inside the barrel! The children takes turn hitting the barrel with a bat and the one that knocks the bottom out of the barrel is crowned “kattedronning” (queen of the cats). The one who knocks down the last piece of the barrel becomes kattekonge (“king of cats”). Both the king and queen gets a crown to wear.

The children go door to door begging for candy. When they come to the door they will sing a little song called ‘Boller op, boller ned’. (Buns up and bun down). In the song it says, that if the children don’t get buns in their stomach, they will make trouble. And the buns the song are referring to is of course ‘Fastelavnsboller’, which is a very popular pastry served on this particular day.

There are many different kinds of Fastelavnsboller. Some is made of danish pastry and some is made of a regular yeast dough. Some are filled with a custard or jam and then baked, while others are sliced open and then filled with a custard or whipped cream filling. My recipe is made from a yeast dough and then filled with custard or marzipan remonce – so here is actually a recipe for 2 different kinds of filling. Some actually put both remonce and custard inside of the bun, so if you wan’t you can try that.


Fastelavnsboller – Cream Buns

24 buns (12 with remonce and 12 with custard filling)
Samlet tid: 2 timer
Danish title: Fastelavnsboller
Cuisine: Danish
Category: Dessert

Ingredients
Dough for the buns
50 g fresh yeast
2 eggs
2,5 dl (1 cup) milk
200 g (7 oz) cold butter
2 tbsp sugar
600 g (21 oz) all-purpose flour
2 tsp cardamom
1 egg til pensling
Icing sugar, Cocoa and water for the icing

Custard filling
2 eggs
4 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp corn starch
3 dl (1.2 cup) milk
Vanilla seeds from 1 vanilla bean

Marzipan Remonce
150 g (5.3 oz) sugar
150 g (5.3 oz) soft butter
150 g (5.3 oz) marzipan

Instructions

1. Mix flour, sugar and cardamom in a bowl.
2. Add the butter and crumble it between your hands.
3. Heat up the milk in a small pan until it is finger warm. Dissolve the yeast in the milk.
4. Add the eggs to the milk/yeast and whip it together.
5. Add the milk/yeast/egg mixture to the dry ingredients and mix it together. Knead the dough well and add more flour if the dough is too sticky.
6. Leave dough in bowl and cover with a dry tea towel. Let the dough rise for about 1/2 hour.
7. While the doughg rises you make the custard filling.
8. Add all the ingredients in a small pan. Remember to use the empty vanilla bean as well.
9. Whip all of the ingredients together and heat it up slowly. Stir constantly in the custard until it comes to a boil and begins to thickens. Pour the custard in to a bowl and let it cool off. Remember to remove the vanilla bean.
10.Now you are going to make the marzipan remonce.
11.Mix sugar, soft butter and marzipan in a bowl. Knead it with your fingers.
12.When the dough is done rising you seperate it into 24 pieces. Roll or press the pieces flat and add custard on top of half of the buns and remonce on top of the other half.
13.Fold all corners up to the center and press to seal all edges. Turn the dough ball over, tuck in all edges and place on two baking sheets with the seam side down.
14.Brush the buns with beaten eggs.
15.Let them rise for 1/2 hour with a clean tea towel on top.
16.Bake the buns in the oven at 200 C (390 F) for 10-15 minutes. Or until golden brown.
17.Let the buns cool off on a rack.
18.When the buns are cooled of you can decorate them with icing (made from icing sugar, water and maybe cocoa).



Recipe for homemade Danish Fastelavnsboller

Recipe for homemade Danish Fastelavnsboller

Recipe for homemade Danish Fastelavnsboller

Recipe for homemade Danish Fastelavnsboller

Recipe for homemade Danish Fastelavnsboller

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Comments

  1. Annie says

    March 20, 2016 at 12:34 pm

    These buns look nice but I really wanted to mention your custard recipe – I used it because I wanted a quick custard to put in some Chelsea buns I was making and it worked brilliantly! So easy! I added cardamom pods as I wanted a cardamom flavour rather than vanilla, It was lovely and worked really well in the Chelsea buns. I wonder why this simple, stir-it-all-together and heat method isn’t used more often for crème patissière?

    Reply
    • Louise Dam says

      March 22, 2016 at 4:56 pm

      Hi Annie, Thank you so much for your comment – sounds nice with the cardamom :-)

      Reply
  2. Anneli says

    February 26, 2017 at 9:36 pm

    Is it possible to use almond milk instead of regular mill?

    Reply
    • Kim Nielsen says

      March 2, 2017 at 2:48 pm

      Hi Anneli. Actually I don’t know. I’m not that familiar using almond milk as a substitute for regular milk. However, If you try I would love to hear from you how it turns out. Regards Kim

      Reply
  3. Kristin Koontz says

    February 9, 2019 at 6:07 pm

    Is 50 grams of yeast correct? It seems a very large amount. Perhaps this is yeast cake rather than dry yeast as we use in the US.

    Reply
    • Kim Nielsen says

      February 11, 2019 at 8:23 am

      Yes it’s 50 grams of fresh yeast which is normal to use in Europe. 50 grams of fresh yeast is about 1 oz of active dry yeast or 1/2 instant dry yeast. I hope it make sense :-)

      Reply

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