Classic Rose Monday balls
In Iceland, Rose Monday is called “bolludagur”, or “ball day”. The custom of traditionally baking such "balls" on Shrove Monday and eating large quantities of them (before the start of Lent) was probably introduced to Iceland by Danish bakers at the end of the 19th century.
The classic Bollen was initially made from Jólakaka dough, later there were yeast dough recipes like this one and today there are often cream puffs made from choux pastry .
Ingredients for approx. 12 balls
125 g margarine
200 g flour
1 Tbsp sugar
1 packet of dry yeast
1 egg
100 ml lukewarm water
100 ml whipping cream
1 tsp sugar
5 Tbsp jam
Preparation
Mix the margarine with the sugar until foamy.
Then mix the mixture with the flour and dry yeast.
Then add the egg and lukewarm water and mix until the dough is as smooth as possible.
Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C) upper/lower heat.
Line a baking tray with baking paper, use a spoon to place the dough onto the tray in blobs, leaving plenty of space between them and let it stand at room temperature for half an hour so that the yeast dough can rise.
Something wasn't working properly for me - crap! The dough only rose in width, not in height - so after the rising time I scraped the dough off the baking paper with a spoon, formed it into "balls" and then...
...baked in the preheated oven for about 15-20 minutes until the outside of the bales has turned nice and golden brown. Allow the balls to cool thoroughly.
Beat the cream with a spoonful of sugar until stiff.
Cut the balls in half...
... the undersides with jam...
...and spread the cream on top and then carefully put the tops back on.
Bon appetit!
[Translated from here.]
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