Chocolate Kardemummabullar
Henry created this dish for Great British Bake Off ™ Series 10. Paul Hollywood praised the flavours, the prove, the bake and colour, and the twisting, awarding a Hollywood Handshake and naming Henry Star Baker, his only criticism being the variation in bun size. This Fix-It version corrects that single fault by portioning each bun to an equal weight, while preserving every praised element — the cardamom-enriched dough, the controlled prove, the even golden bake, and the ribboned almond–cardamom and chocolate crème pâtissière fillings.
- Time: 165 min
Source: Relaxed Recipes
Ingredients
- FOR THE CARDAMOM DOUGH
- Strong white bread flour – 500g
- Caster sugar – 75g
- Fast-action dried yeast – 7g , one sachet
- Ground cardamom – 2 tsp, freshly ground from pods is best
- Fine salt – 6g
- Large egg – 1, room temperature
- Whole milk, warmed – 260ml , blood temperature, no hotter
- Unsalted butter, softened – 100g
- FOR THE ALMOND–CARDAMOM FILLING
- Ground almonds – 100g
- Unsalted butter, softened – 75g
- Ground cinnamon – 1 tsp
- Ground cardamom – 1 1/2 tsp
- FOR THE CHOCOLATE CRÈME PÂTISSIÈRE
- Whole milk – 250ml
- Large egg yolks – 2
- Caster sugar – 50g
- Plain flour – 15g
- Cornflour – 15g
- Dark chocolate , chopped – 75g
- Vanilla extract – 2ml
- FOR THE GLAZE & FINISH
- Caster sugar – 50g , for the syrup
- Water – 60ml , for the syrup
- Ground cardamom – 1 pinch, for the syrup
- Pearl sugar – to finish
- Flaked almonds or chopped pistachios – to finish, optional
- EQUIPMENT: Stand mixer with dough hook, digital kitchen scale, ruler or bench sc