Everything you need to know to make the best Swedish Cardamom buns!

UPDATE! (30/4/2023): I have gotten some comments that the dough is really stiff for some people. Flours are different in every country and have different rates of absorption. If you feel your dough is stiff or dry add 50g more milk and mix for an additional 5 minutes. The bun dough in later videos has also been changed to fix this issue.

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RECIPE:

Dough:
500g (2 cups) nonfat milk
1100g (9 ¼ cups) AP flour
200g (1 cup) sugar
200g (¾ cup plus 2 Tbsp) room temperature butter
23g (2 Tbsp) ground cardamom
70g fresh yeast (23g or 2 ⅓Tbsp dry yeast)
15g (2 ½ tsp) salt

-Add all ingredients to the bowl of your stand mixer.
-Using the hook attachment mix on low for 5 minutes or until the ingredients are all incorporated.
-Turn the speed up to like a medium to medium fast for 15-30 minutes.
-You want to work up as much gluten as you can.
-When your dough is smooth and pliable, it needs to rest. In the winter you canshape it into a rectangle, leave on your counter covered in plastic or a tea towel for 30 minutes. In the summer I like to shape it into a rectangle, cover it with plastic and let it rest in the fridge for 30 minutes to an hour until it is cool but not yet cold/hard.
-Roll the dough into a large rectangle, it should end up being about 1cm (⅓ inch) thick.
-Spread the filling onto the dough.
-Sprinkle on a generous amount of the cardamom sugar
-fold into thirds
-Roll out and start to portion
-Shape as desired
-In the bakeries I’ve worked in the buns are usually around 100g, but this feels very large at home, 80-90g works well.
-Place on a baking tray, cover, and let rise until double in size. In the winter this can take me over three hours. But lately, since it July and therefore very warm and humid, it can take as little as 45 minutes to an hour.
-Bake at 200C (400F) for about 9 minutes or until golden brown. I like to check mine and rotate the tray at the 5 or 6 minute mark so they don’t get overbrown.
-Brush with egg wash as soon as they come out of the oven.
-Immediately sprinkle them with cardamom sugar.
-Let cool (if you can wait that long!)
-Enjoy!

Butter Filling:
300g very soft butter
250g sugar
3g vanilla sugar
3g salt (optional)

Mix all together. This can be made up to a week in advance. There is no need to refrigerate it if you plan to use it within a week of making. It MUST be very soft when you go to spread it. If it has been sitting out at room temperature and is still tricky to spread, microwave it a bit. You don’t want to tear the dough trying to spread on the filling

Cardamom Sugar:
100 sugar
40 cardamon

You can use less cardamon if you would like. This is the ratio I have learned in Sweden but it is quite intense (not to mention pricey!) so do what works best for you.


Cardamom:
The cardamon used in Swedish baking is just the black seeds (like what is linked below) none of the green husk. It is roughly ground, not a fine powder. This gives the dough very pretty black flecks instead of a grayish tinge. Any cardamom will be fine though taste wise.

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