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Shrovetide Buns with Pastry Cream

Cooking time: 180 minutes
Servings: 10

Soft and airy Shrovetide buns with a sweet surprise inside. The golden buns are filled with marzipan and injected with silky smooth pastry cream.

Shrovetide Buns with Pastry Cream

Ingredients

  • Dough
  • 25 g yeast
  • 150 ml milk
  • 150 g butter
  • 1 egg
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 3 tsp ground cardamom
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 375 g all-purpose flour
  • Pastry Cream
  • 1 egg
  • 200 ml milk
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tbsp cornstarch
  • 1 vanilla pod
  • 200 ml heavy cream
  • Additionally
  • 100 g marzipan
  • 20 g butter
  • 10 g freeze-dried raspberries
  • 3 tbsp sugar

Instructions

  1. Dough
  2. Crumble the yeast into lukewarm milk
  3. Melt the butter and stir it into the mixture
  4. Add the remaining ingredients and knead the dough with dough hooks until it releases from the bowl
  5. Let the dough rest covered with a cloth for 1 hour
  6. Roll out the dough into a large square and cut it into 10 squares
  7. Distribute 10g of marzipan in each square
  8. Fold the corners together and press them well to form small packages
  9. Place the buns on a baking sheet with parchment paper with the seam side down
  10. Let the buns rise again for 1 hour
  11. Brush the buns with a beaten egg and bake them at 200°C conventional oven for 15 - 20 minutes
  12. Pastry Cream
  13. Whisk together the egg, milk, sugar, cornstarch, and seeds from the vanilla pod in a saucepan
  14. Heat the mixture while stirring constantly until it thickens
  15. Let the cream cool completely in the refrigerator
  16. Whip the cream to soft peaks and fold it into the pastry cream
  17. Cut a small hole in a piping bag and fill it with pastry cream
  18. Poke a small hole in the bottom of each Shrovetide bun and fill with cream
  19. Additionally
  20. Crumble the freeze-dried raspberries and mix them with sugar
  21. Melt the butter, brush the buns, and sprinkle with the sugar mixture

Shrovetide Buns with Pastry Cream

Cake and sweetsSeasonal & Festive
Shrovetide Buns with Pastry Cream

Soft and airy Shrovetide buns with a sweet surprise inside. The golden buns are filled with marzipan and injected with silky smooth pastry cream.

Posted on 2/7/2026

Servings

10

Total time

3 hours

Servings

10

Total time

3 hours

Ingredients

Dough

•
25 g yeast
•
150 ml milk
•
150 g butter
•
1 egg
•
½ tsp salt
•
3 tsp ground cardamom
•
2 tbsp sugar
•
375 g all-purpose flour

Pastry Cream

•
1 egg
•
200 ml milk
•
2 tbsp sugar
•
1 tbsp cornstarch
•
1 vanilla pod
•
200 ml heavy cream

Additionally

•
100 g marzipan
•
20 g butter
•
10 g freeze-dried raspberries
•
3 tbsp sugar

Instructions

Dough

1

Crumble the yeast into lukewarm milk

2

Melt the butter and stir it into the mixture

3

Add the remaining ingredients and knead the dough with dough hooks until it releases from the bowl

4

Let the dough rest covered with a cloth for 1 hour

5

Roll out the dough into a large square and cut it into 10 squares

6

Distribute 10g of marzipan in each square

7

Fold the corners together and press them well to form small packages

8

Place the buns on a baking sheet with parchment paper with the seam side down

9

Let the buns rise again for 1 hour

10

Brush the buns with a beaten egg and bake them at 200°C conventional oven for 15 - 20 minutes

Pastry Cream

1

Whisk together the egg, milk, sugar, cornstarch, and seeds from the vanilla pod in a saucepan

2

Heat the mixture while stirring constantly until it thickens

3

Let the cream cool completely in the refrigerator

4

Whip the cream to soft peaks and fold it into the pastry cream

5

Cut a small hole in a piping bag and fill it with pastry cream

6

Poke a small hole in the bottom of each Shrovetide bun and fill with cream

Additionally

1

Crumble the freeze-dried raspberries and mix them with sugar

2

Melt the butter, brush the buns, and sprinkle with the sugar mixture


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