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Cardamom wreath with apple

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Course Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine Danish
Servings 15 pieces

Equipment

  • Mortar

Ingredients
  

Dough

  • ¼ tsaoko cardamom seeds (equivalent to 1/2 teaspoon grinded, can be omitted)
  • 4-6 green cardamom pods (equivalent to 1/2 teaspoon grinded)
  • 3 dl plant-based milk
  • 50 g fresh yeast (or 14g dry yeast)
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 700 g wheat flour
  • 150 g vegan butter

Remonce

  • 200 g brown sugar
  • 2 tsp grounded cinnamon
  • 140 g vegan butter room temperature

Sugar layer for brushing

  • 1½ dl water
  • 50 g sugar
  • ½ apple

Cardamomme sugar

  • ½ tsp green cardamom pods grinded
  • 1 tbsp sugar

Apple

  • ¾ apple

Instructions
 

Dough

  • Split the green cardamom pods and grind the seeds in a mortar
  • Pour the crushed seeds in a small bowl and save them for later
  • Pour milk and the green cardamom shells in a saucepan
  • Split the tsaoko cardamom pods, grind them coarsely in a mortar, and put the seeds in the milk
  • Heat the milk on low heat for about 10 minutes to infuse the taste of cardamom in the milk. Then pour it through a strainer to remove the cardamom shells and seeds
  • In a bowl, mix milk, the grinded green cardamom seeds, and yeast and stir until the yeast has dissolved
  • Chop the vegan butter
  • Mix all the ingredients together and stir until the dough is uniform
  • Sprinkle the kitchen table with a bit of flour and knead the dough on the table
  • Put the dough back in the bowl and cover it with a dishtowel
  • Let the dough rise for about 1 hour on the kitchen table
  • Make the remonce, sugar water, and cardamom sugar while the dough rises

Remonce

  • Mix sugar and cinnamon in a bowl
  • Chop the vegan butter
  • In a bowl, mix all the ingredients together with a fork until it is creamy and there are no lumps of butter

Sugar water for brushing

  • Cut the apple into smaller pieces so they can fit in a saucepan
  • Pour water, sugar, and apple pieces into a saucepan and cook for 20-30 min until the apple pieces are completely cooked
  • Remove the apple by running it through a strainer. Allow the water to cool

Cardamom sugar

  • Crush the green cardamom pods in a mortar and mix the seeds with the sugar in a small bowl

Fold cardamom wreaths

  • Rinse the apple, remove the core and chop it into small pieces
  • Divide the dough into 15 equal pieces
  • Roll each piece out into a small oblong rectangle
  • Smear some remonce on top
  • Place a few pieces of apple at one end of the rectangle and fold the dough up around these. Roll the rest of the dough into a roulade
  • Make a cut through the roulade so that it splits in the middle - but do not cut all the way through, the roulade should be in one piece at the top so that it looks like a pair of trousers with the apple pieces still covered in dough
  • Twist the two dough strips together to create one twisted piece. Fold the twist around the lump of dough with apples to form a wreath. Fold the end of the twisted piece under the wreath
  • Repeat with the rest of the dough pieces and the remonce
  • Place the wreaths on two sheets of baking paper and let them rise covered in a dishtowel for about ½ hour
  • Bake the wreaths in the oven until golden at 200°C for 10-12 min
  • Brush the cardamom wreaths with the sugar water and sprinkle with cardamom sugar as soon as they get out of the oven
  • Let the cardamom wreaths cool on a rack