Recipe Swedish semla

Finally, it's Fat Tuesday!  This is when Swedes indulge in 'semlor' – delicious cardamom buns filled with almond paste and whipped cream. Curious about how to make a semla? Look no further! Swedish semla recipe Happy fika!  

Dough:
50 g fresh yeast (for sweet dough)
100 g butter (unsalted)
300 ml milk
1 egg
0.5 tsp salt
2 tsp ground cardamom
90 g caster sugar
540g wheat flour

Egg wash:
1 egg

Filling:
200 g sweet almonds
135 g granulated sugar
150 ml milk

Garnish:
700 ml whipped cream
1 tsp icing sugar

Instructions:
Buns:
1. Melt the butter and mix with the milk. Heat to 37 °C.
2. Crumble the yeast into a bowl of a stand mixer.
3. Stir in the butter and milk until the yeast has dissolved.
4. Add one egg, sugar, ground cardamom and salt.
5. Add the plain flour and start mixing. Turn off the mixer when the dough stops sticking to the side of the bowl. Cover with a clean cloth and leave to rise until the dough its twice its size, about 30 minutes.
6. Uncover the dough, place it on a flour dusted surface and punch down the dough.
7. Cut into even pieces and roll into buns. Place the buns on a baking tray and leave to rise, to twice their size.
8. Brush the tops of each of the buns with egg wash.
9. Bake in oven, at 225°C for around 8-10 minutes. Leave to cool on a wire rack.

Filling:
1. Mix almonds, sugar and milk in a blender.
2. Cut the top of each bun. Scoop out the centre of each bun, mix the crumble with almond paste and milk.
3. Fill the bun with the almond mixture and top with whipped cream.
4. Replace the top. Dust with icing sugar and enjoy!

[NennaC]

This is a perfectly genuine Swedish Semla recipe. One thing though, please use roughly ground cardamon instead of finely ground. Then you see the black little specks in the bun which gives the classical look. If you use finely ground cardamon it risks to tint the dough ash grey and the buns risk to look dull. The butter and egg yolks give the buns a white colour with a beautiful golden tint. Don’t make this dull with ash coloured cardamon. Cardamon is a significant flavour of semlas and definitely needs to be there but preferably roughly ground. I really like this recipe though. Try them!

[Regnswe]

Happy Semla day! Glad to be here to celebrate it.

[serperist]

"A recipe so good, it killed a king"

[tifuuzzy]

Looking forward to make it myself in the future!! 🖤🇸🇪💯

[newtanagmukhopadhyay]

i love sweden. would like to visit sometime,

[esingundogdu]

Great recipe! i have to try it after watching the movie Otto by Tom Hanks 😂 love from Türkiye 💙

[OzelOgretim-zcpv]

I have had a Swedish friends at an English course in my country.She has not said that about her food behaviour.She is a good woman.Food culture is a massive subject which related the bread to other good things...Good day to you...

[vaporchatYT]

im eating that when i move to stockholm

[gabrielladelfinadiblasio]

Real almond instead of marsipan, super!! 😋

[verybigAL]

Can’t believe this can Kill a king
Edit: nvm i can believe it

[daxginand]

Smaskigt! Jag gjorde den här och den är LÄCKLIG

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