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Iced buns

Prep time over 2 hours
Cook time over 2 hours
Makes 16 iced buns
Dietary Vegetarian
From The Great British Bake Off
Nadiya enriches her dough with sugar, milk and butter for light fluffy bread buns. Filled with sour cherry and almond flavours, these childhood treats are all grown up. For this recipe you will need: a freestanding mixer fitted with a dough hook, 2 large baking trays, a sugar thermometer, 4 piping bags, a small plain nozzle, a medium plain nozzle and a large star nozzle.

Method


  1. For the dough, put the flour into the bowl of a freestanding mixer fitted with a dough hook. Add the salt and sugar to one side of the bowl and the yeast to the other. Add the butter, milk and 150ml/5fl oz water. Mix until a dough forms then knead in the mixer for 5 minutes. Cover the bowl with cling film and leave to prove in a warm place for 1 hour, or until doubled in size.

  2. Once the dough has proved, divide it into 2 equal parts. Flatten each piece of dough out and add the cardamom to one and the nutmeg to the other. Knead to distribute the spices and knock out the air.

  3. Divide each piece of dough into 8 equal parts. Roll the cardamom dough into balls and the nutmeg dough into fingers. Place on baking trays, cover and leave to prove for 30 minutes.

  4. Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 5. Bake the bread for 10 minutes.

  5. For the almond custard, warm the milk and sugar in a saucepan. In a bowl, whisk together the egg yolks and cornflour. Slowly add the hot milk to the egg mixture stirring all the time. Return to the pan and heat, stirring all the time, until thickened. Remove from the heat and add the salt and almond extract. Cover the surface with cling film and leave to cool completely.

  6. Whip the cream until soft peaks form, then fold into the cooled custard.

  7. For the sour cherry jam, drain the cherries and blend them to a paste in a blender. Transfer to a saucepan and add the sugar and lemon juice. Boil the mixture until it reaches 105C on a sugar thermometer. Remove from the heat and stir in the cherry flavourings. Pass through a sieve and leave to cool completely. When cool transfer to a piping bag fitted with a small plain nozzle.

  8. For the royal icing, beat the egg white and lemon juice using a wooden spoon until frothy, then add 3 tbsp icing sugar and beat again. Keep beating and adding a few tablespoons of icing sugar until all the icing sugar is incorporated and you have a smooth paste (if the icing is too thick add a little water to slacken). Transfer to a piping bag fitted with a plain nozzle.

  9. For the Chantilly cream, add the cream and icing sugar to a large bowl. Whip until soft peaks form when the whisk is removed. Transfer to a piping bag fitted with a large star nozzle and leave in the fridge.

  10. To assemble the cardamom and almond buns, cut the buns in half horizontally and fill them with the almond custard. Pipe icing on top of the bun, top with toasted almonds, a sprinkling of cardamom powder and a dusting of icing sugar.

  11. To assemble the nutmeg and sour cherry fingers, make a deep slit lengthways in the top of the bread fingers. Pipe icing on both sides of the slits and leave to set.

  12. Pipe some cherry jam in the bottom of the slit. Pipe the cream neatly on top and pipe two stripes of cherry jam at either side of the cream.

Ingredients

For the dough

  • 500g/1lb 2oz strong white bread flour
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 40g/1½oz caster sugar
  • 2 x 7g sachets fast-action yeast
  • 40g/1½oz unsalted butter, softened
  • 150ml/5fl oz full-fat milk
  • 2 tsp ground green cardamom
  • 2 tsp ground nutmeg

For the almond custard

  • 250ml/9fl oz full-fat milk
  • 40g/1½oz caster sugar
  • 2 medium free-range egg yolks
  • 20g/¾oz cornflour
  • ¼ tsp fine sea salt
  • 1 tsp almond extract
  • 50ml/2fl oz whipping cream

For the sour cherry jam

  • 300g/10½oz sour cherries (drained weight)
  • 300g/10½oz jam sugar
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • cherry essence flavouring
  • Morello cherry essence flavouring

For the royal icing

  • 1 pasteurized egg white
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 250g/9oz icing sugar, sifted

For the Chantilly cream

  • 400ml/14fl oz double cream
  • 4 tbsp icing sugar, sifted

To decorate

  • 50g/1¾oz slivered almonds, toasted
  • green cardamom powder, for dusting
  • icing sugar, for dusting

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