Buns with lemon cream
Description
Perfect with tea and coffee. If you are familiar with yeast dough, making buns with lemon cream will not be very difficult. Lemon cream is essentially custard, but made not with milk, rather with lemon juice. And for beginner cooks, I provide a step-by-step recipe description with photos. Fluffy buns with lemon flavor and aroma are festive and unusual baked goods. Good luck. Can be served with tea or coffee.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients for making buns with lemon cream.
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Step 2
Make the dough. Place the yeast into a bowl or the bowl of a mixer.
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Step 3
Pour in warm milk. Add sugar and salt.
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Step 4
Add the melted butter. If it is hot, let it cool slightly until warm.
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Step 5
Gradually add the sifted flour.
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Step 6
Knead a soft and elastic dough.
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Step 7
Place the dough in a warm place. After an hour to an hour and a half, it will increase significantly in volume.
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Step 8
While the dough is rising, prepare the lemon cream. Using a grater, remove the zest from one lemon. Squeeze the juice from one large lemon or from two medium lemons. You should get 100 ml of lemon juice. Pour the juice into a heavy-bottomed saucepan.
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Step 9
Add eggs and lemon zest to the lemon juice.
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Step 10
Add sugar and starch.
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Step 11
Thoroughly mix the lemon juice with the eggs, sugar, and starch. Place the saucepan over low heat and, stirring constantly, cook the cream until it thickens. Add the butter to the hot cream.
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Step 12
Mix the cream with the butter and let it cool to room temperature. The lemon cream is ready.
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Step 13
When the dough has risen, take it out of the bowl and punch it down. Roll it out into a rectangular sheet. Spread the lemon cream over the dough.
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Step 14
Roll the dough into a log and cut it into pieces 3 centimeters wide.
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Step 15
Place the semi-finished buns on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Cover with plastic wrap and let stand at room temperature for 25–30 minutes. Then brush with egg yolk and place in the oven, which should be preheated to 175–180 degrees.
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Step 16
Bake the buns in the oven for 30–35 minutes. Baking time depends on your oven.
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Step 17
Lemon cream buns are ready. You can serve them now.