Ingredients
Buns:
- 1 cup warm water
- 4 dessert spoons sugar
- 2 dessert spoons yeast
- 2 1/2 – 3 cups bread mix (could use plain flour if need be)
- 2 dessert spoons olive oil
- 1 cup sultanas (optional but seriously good!)
Mock Cream:
- 125g butter (soft)
- 1 tbsp milk
- 2 1/2 tbsp water
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tsp gelatine
- 1 extra tbsp water
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Method
Buns:
Proof water, sugar and yeast. Combine with 2 1/2 cups of bread mix and oil then knead thoroughly adding extra bread mix as needed. Be careful not to over flour.
Set aside in an oiled bowl to double in size. Cover sultanas in boiling water. Pour them through a sieve after 10-15 min and let all excess water drip off until dough is ready. (You don’t have to do this but it makes them super juicy and if your sultanas are looking a bit sad, this will jazz them up beautifully!)
Punch down dough and knead through sultanas. Break into 6 pieces (depending on what size you are chasing) and shape into either balls or logs. Align on tray, cover with damp cloth and let rise again for half an hour.
Preheat oven to 200 deg cel, and bake buns. mix up a tsp of melted butter and a dessert spoon of golden syrup and brush over buns to glaze. Once cool, using a bread knife, make a cut to fill with cream.
Cream:
Over low heat dissolve sugar into milk and water. Turn off and remove from heat. In a cup, mix up gelatine with extra water and whisk into sugar syrup. Beat the bajeezus out of butter and vanilla until white and fluffy. Gradually add in syrup and keep beating for 10-15 min and it should be cold and look like cream. Pipe into cooled buns.
Pop a tsp on jam on top of each and dust with icing sugar.
The Ramblings:
After I was in town at the bakery the other day, the question of how to make mock cream has been niggling in the back of my brain. So today was the day to figure it out, and who can go past cream buns!
PS If you are a lucky cookie and have fresh cream on hand, go for it! I’m hoping the mock cream may survive the lunch boxes a little better though.