DANISH PASTRIES
Turn the kitchen into your own little patisserie with this step-by-step guide to buttery Danish pastries
Provided by Jane Hornby
Categories Breakfast, Treat
Time 3h30m
Yield Makes 18 pastries
Number Of Ingredients 19
Steps:
- Pulse together the dry ingredients plus 2 tsp salt in a processor, then pulse in the milk and egg, plus 100ml water, until you have a smooth, slightly sticky dough. Knead for 1 min, using a little flour, until just smooth. Put into an oiled bowl, cover with oiled cling film and leave to rise in a warm place for 1 hr until doubled in size (overnight in the fridge if you like).
- Flour your surface, then pat the dough out to a rectangle, 1cm thick. Lay the butter slices out over the middle of the dough, in a rectangle. Fold the pastry over the top, bottom and then sides until the butter is completely hidden. Press the edges down.
- Roll the dough out to a 50 x 30cm rectangle, first tapping out the dough with the rolling pin in gentle ridges, so that you can tell the butter is being squashed out evenly inside the pastry, before rolling properly. Turn dough 90 degrees, then fold the right third over and the left third over that. Do this three times, chilling for 15 mins after each roll.
- Cut the dough in half, into 2 squares. Roll one piece of dough to 35 x 35cm. Cut into 9 squares, then follow the instructions below for each filling and shape. If you want to make more than one shape, it's easy to divide the filling quantity. Don't worry if your squares rise as you work, just roll them out a bit again.
- To make 18 pecan pinwheels, whizz 85g pecans until fine, then stir in 50g light muscovado, 1 tbsp maple syrup and 25g softened butter. Cut each square of pastry almost to the middle from each corner, spoon on 1 tsp filling, then fold each point over and press into the middle. Scatter more chopped pecans and a little sugar over before baking. Drizzle with a little maple syrup to serve.
- For 18 apricot custard turnovers, you will need 150g tub custard, 2 x 320g cans apricots and a few tsps apricot jam. Put 2 tsp custard in the middle, sit two apricot halves on top, dot with jam, then pull 2 corners over and pinch to seal.
- To make 18 raisin swirls, mix 50g raisins, 25g caster sugar, 1 tsp mixed spice and 50g soft butter. Instead of cutting the dough into 9, leave it whole and spread the filling over. Roll up, slice into 9 rounds, then squash each one. Blend 50g icing sugar and a few drops of water to drizzle over once baked.
- Once shaped and filled, let the pastries rise for 30 mins until puffed and doubled in size. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Brush with beaten egg, make sure you pinch any edges together again, then bake for about 20 mins until golden and risen.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 218 calories, Fat 12 grams fat, SaturatedFat 8 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 25 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 4 grams sugar, Fiber 1 grams fiber, Protein 3 grams protein, Sodium 0.26 milligram of sodium
CHRISTMAS DANISH PASTRY
A VERY special treat. This recipe has lots of steps, not particularly difficult, but requires some patience and technique to get these looking perfect for gift giving. The taste is PHENOMENAL. You will not be disappointed. A dear friend gave me this recipe. I make several batches each year as gifts, and the last batch, I HIDE two large pastries as our traditional Christmas breakfast. Enjoy!
Provided by yibbityibbit
Categories Breads
Time 2h5m
Yield 3 Large Pastries
Number Of Ingredients 22
Steps:
- Read and Follow Carefully!
- Pastry: Place butter and sugar in 4-quart bowl, pour heated milk over fat.
- Let stand while yeast dissolves in 1/2 cup water and 1 tbs sugar.
- Stir and let stand for 5 minutes.
- When yeast is dissolved and bubbly, add eggs and beat well.
- Add yeast/egg mixture to cooled milk mixture.
- Add salt to flour in sifter and sift in to bowl of above ingredients.
- Beat with a spoon until all flour is added to make a soft dough.
- Let rise until double.
- Custard: Heat milk.
- Mix sugar, salt and flour together and stir into hot milk.
- Stir until thick, beat egg yolk and gradually add hot mixture TO YOLK until hot and then add back to original mixture.
- Cook 1 minute more.
- Let cool.
- Almond Filling: Beat all ingredients together with mixer.
- Crumb Mixture: Combine flour, sugar and walnuts; mix in the 1/2 cup butter until well mixed.
- Assembly: Divide dough into 3 portions, or, make up to 12 small pastries.
- Roll out to about 1/4 to 1/2 thick rectangles, long side perpendicular to you works best.
- Place fillings down center of rectangle in this order: Custard, almond filling, crumb mixture.
- Cut equal number of slits on both sides of rectangle, leaving the center 1/3 of dough intact with fillings.
- Braid the strips you just cut over the fillings.
- Place pastries in foil lined pans, brush with egg white beaten with 2 tbs water.
- Place halved maraschino cherries, like buttons, down the top and sprinkle with more crumb mixture.
- Bake at 350°F for 20 min for small pastries, 30 minutes for medium, and 35-40 minutes for large.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 3199.1, Fat 138.3, SaturatedFat 78.1, Cholesterol 463.7, Sodium 1928.4, Carbohydrate 443.3, Fiber 11.1, Sugar 195, Protein 51.7
DANISH DOUGH
This super-buttery laminated pastry dough is scented with a hint of cardamom. Use the dough to make Cheese Danish, Apricot Danish, Cinnamon Snails, and more. Martha made this recipe on Martha Bakes episode 502.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Breakfast & Brunch Recipes
Yield Makes 3 1/4 pounds
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- In a small bowl, sprinkle the yeast over the warm milk; stir until dissolved. Let sit until foamy, about 5 minutes. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the dough hook, combine 1 pound, 4 ounces flour, sugar, salt, cardamom, and 4 tablespoons butter; beat on low speed until butter is incorporated and the mixture resembles coarse meal, 3 to 4 minutes. Pour in the yeast-milk mixture; mix until dough just comes together. Add the eggs and yolk; mix until just combined, 2 to 3 minutes. Do not overmix.
- Turn out the dough onto a lightly floured work surface, making sure to include any loose bits left at the bottom of the bowl. Gently knead to form a smooth ball, about 30 seconds. Wrap well with plastic, and refrigerate at least 2 hours or overnight.
- Paddle remaining 3 1/2 sticks butter with 2 tablespoons flour. Form flour and butter mixture into a 12-by-10-inch rectangle on a sheet of plastic wrap. Refrigerate 15 minutes or up to 1 day. On a lightly floured work surface, roll out dough to an 18-by-10-inch rectangle, a little over a 1/4 inch thick, keeping the corners as square as possible. Remove any excess flour with a dry pastry brush. Remove butter mixture from refrigerator and let stand at room temperature until it reaches the consistency of the dough. With a short side facing you, place butter mixture over 2/3 of the dough. Fold the unbuttered third over as you would a business letter, followed by the remaining third. This seals in the butter.
- Roll out dough again to an 18-by-10-inch rectangle, then fold dough into thirds as described above; refrigerate for 1 hour. This is the first of three turns. Repeat rolling and folding two more times, refrigerating for at least 1 hour between turns. To help you remember how many turns have been completed, mark the dough after each one: make one mark for the first turn, two for the second, and three for the third.
- Refrigerate dough, tightly wrapped in plastic, for at least 4 hours or overnight. Dough can also be frozen, tightly wrapped in plastic, for up to 2 weeks; before using, thaw the dough in the refrigerator overnight.
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