Swedish Tea Rings - Vetekrans

Baked

After 2nd Proofing

Filling

Rolled Out

After 1st Proofing

For First Proofing

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 146 g
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Sugar - 3 tbsp
Unsalted butter - 1 tbsp
Instant yeast - 3/4 tsp
Buttermilk*- 25 ml
Milk - 100 ml

Filling:

Brown sugar - 1/4 + 1/8 cup
Butter - 1 tbsp
Cinnamon powder - 1 tsp
Black raisins - 1/4 cup

For Glaze:

Icing sugar - 1/2 cup
Milk - 1 tbsp
Vanilla esc - 1/4 tsp

Method:

• First lets make the dough.
• In a bowl add in flour and salt and mix well.
• Add in sugar, yeast, butter and mix it.
• Add in buttermilk and mix it.
• Add milk slowly and gather the dough.
• It will be sticky dough.
• Transfer this to workspace and start kneading the dough.
• It will take app 10 mins to get a soft dough.
• Transfer this to greased bowl and cover it.
• Set this aside for an hour for first proofing.
• After an hour punch and divide the dough to two equal parts.
• Roll out a part to a rectangle.
• Apply a tbsp of butter on it.
• Sprinkle sugar, cinnamon and raisins.
• You can fine chop the raisins too and then add.
• Start from larger side and roll it to a tight log.
• Let the seam side be down.
• Bring the corners together and make patterns as in pic.
• Now place this in a lined baking tray or a greased tray and cover with damp cloth.
• Set this aside for 30 mins for second proofing.
• Apply milk wash.
• Bake this in a preheated oven at 180°C for 25-30 mins.
• Or until it is golden brown.
• Prepare the glaze and drizzle it on tea ring once it is cool.
• I also topped it with tutti frutti.
• Let is set.

Note:

I used only milk 125 ml.