Rosinenschnecken

[wiseheart]

Aka raisin-cinnamon rolls. This is the cookie every sane person simply makes of ready-made puff pastry. Since I consider myself a sane person (sometimes), that was my original intent, too. Only that the local grocer's didn't have puff pastry. Well, not the cheap version I always use. And I wasn't willing to pay double price. So I made these instead:



THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

For the dough:
500 gr white flour;
100 gr margarine, melted and cooled down again;
1 package dried yeast;
1 full egg + 1 egg white;
100 gr white sugar;
125 ml warm milk (not hot!!!);
1 pinch of salt;
the grated peel of 1 lemon;

For the filling:
100 gr soft butter;
6 tablespoons of white sugar;
1 teaspoon of cinnamon;
1 egg yolk;
50gr hacked and roasted almonds;
1 tablespoon of brown sugar;
a few drops of almond oil;
two handfuls of raisins;

For the decoration:
some sweetened milk to sprinkle the "snails";
some lemon-flavoured sugar icing;

THIS IS HOW TO MAKE THEM:
1. Prepare the yeast dough from the ingredients as always;
2. Let it go up in a warm place until it doubles its mass;
3. Stir the soft butter with the sugar, the egg yolk and the cinnamon until the sugar melts;
4. Pre-heat the oven to 200°C and line the baking tins with baking paper;
5. Roast hacked almonds in a dry pan; when golden, take from the oven, let it cool for a short while and stir in the brown sugar and the almond oil;
6. Roll out the dough and spread the buttercreme all over it;
7. Sprinkle it with the almond pieces and the raisins;
8. Roll it up as tight as possible and cut 1 cm thick pieces from it;
9. Put the little rolls on the baking tin and paint their sides with sweetened milk - they get a prettier colour while baking that way;
10. Bake them in the pre-heated oven for 10-15 minutes, depending on your oven;
11. Let it cool on a gitter; then decorate them with sugar icing.

Comments

[artemis10002000]

That looks delicious!

It's far too hot for baking right now but I'll save the recipe for when the heat wave is over

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You can always replace the dough with puff pastry, put the guys into the oven and leave the kitchen for the next 20 minutes. *g*

[saki101.livejournal.com]

Oh, my goodness, those look scrumptious! How did you manage baking in the heat?

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The heat wave temporarily broke, although weather forecast warns us that it might return at the weekend. I used the short release to indulge my hobby. As I'm currently watching old reruns from The Great British Bake Off, I'm inspired to bake all the time. *g*

[sammydragoncat]

Those look so good! I have been wanting to make cookies, it just has been too hot to bake.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

This week wasn't quite that hot for a change, so I used the chance to bake a little. Baking is always a delight, unless I have to do it, for some reason.

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

They look lovely... and delicious! It's suddenly become summer here, so we're trying to keep the flat cool - won't be baking much for a bit.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, neither will I, due to the return of the heat wave.