
Norway / Dessert
Skolebrød
A cardamom-scented bun with custard in the centre, icing and desiccated coconut.
Ingredients
- Flour600 g
- Milk, warm300 ml
- Dry yeast10 g
- Butter120 g
- Sugar100 g
- Ground cardamom2 tsp
- Egg1
- Milk for the custard400 ml
- Egg yolks3
- Cornflour30 g
- Icing sugar200 g
- Desiccated coconut80 g
- Vanilla1 tsp
- Salt1 tsp
Quantities are auto-calculated from the original recipe as a guide. Items without numbers (e.g. “to taste”) are not changed.
Method 7 steps
Dissolve the yeast in the warm milk with a spoon of sugar and leave it ten minutes.
Knead a dough from the flour, yeast mixture, sugar, cardamom, egg, salt and softened butter, working it fifteen minutes.
Let it rise somewhere warm for an hour, until doubled.
Cook a custard of milk, yolks, cornflour, sugar and vanilla and cool it completely under film.
Divide the dough into twelve balls, set them on a tray and prove them forty minutes.
Press a well into each bun with the base of a glass and spoon custard into it.
Bake at 200 °C for twelve minutes, cool them, pipe the icing in a ring and scatter the coconut.





