Custard is usually made from milk or cream, eggs, sugar and flour or starch. It has a delicate, airy texture and a pleasant flavor. Many people consider custard, especially in scones, to be harmful to the body. However, custard contains many useful substances, such as vitamins A, C, D, E, group B, minerals – calcium, potassium, magnesium, iron, as well as proteins and fats. These substances are necessary to maintain health and normal functioning of the body.
It should be remembered that custard is a fairly caloric product. Therefore, its consumption in large quantities can lead to weight gain.
Let’s try not to overdo it with cream buns, let’s prepare this dessert for tea.
Ingredients of dough for buns “Lakomka”:
- milk – 120 g;
- sugar – 150 g;
- fresh yeast – 15 g;
- eggs – 2 pcs;
- butter – 60 g;
- salt – 1/2 tsp;
- vanilla – a pinch;
- flour – 450 g.
Ingredients for the custard:
- egg – 1 pc;
- sugar – 80 g;
- starch – 50 g;
- milk – 400 g;
- butter – 80 g;
- vanilla – a pinch.
Preparation of buns “Lakomka”:
In a bowl with warm milk break eggs, pour sugar, yeast, pour melted butter and mix thoroughly. Pour vanilla and salt into the mixture and mix again.
Sift flour into the milk mixture in batches and knead the dough. When the dough forms a ball, knead it on a table sprinkled with flour for 7 minutes.
The dough should be soft and not sticky.
Grease the dough with vegetable oil and leave it under the foil and cellophane for an hour.
Be sure to make a hole in the film.
For the cream in a saucepan mix the egg with sugar and starch. Pour milk into the mixture and bring to a thickening and boiling on medium heat.
Do not forget to stir the mixture constantly.
After boiling, cook the custard base for another 30 seconds. Next, add vanilla to the mixture and mix. Cover the base with cling film and leave to cool.
Knead the dough and divide it into small lumps
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Leave them under the cellophane, one by one roll out with a rolling pin into tortillas.
Fold the tortillas in half and place on a baking tray lined with parchment.
Cover the pieces with a towel and leave for 20-30 minutes. Brush
each piece with egg and bake at 180 degrees for 25 minutes.
Beat the cream base, add soft butter to it. Whisk the ingredients together to obtain the cream.
Make pockets in the billets
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Put the cream into a pastry bag and fill the pockets in the buns with it.
As a result, we have delicious cream buns “Lakomka”.
If desired, they can be decorated with powdered sugar and almond petals.
Author of the photo and original recipe youtube.com channel: Cooking with Tanya 2.0
