Shrove Tuesday Buns

Ingredients

 * 2 dl lukewarm milk
 * 11 g dry yeast (or 25 g compressed yeast, dissolve yeast in milk if it is compressed)
 * 1 egg
 * ½ tsp salt
 * 1 dl sugar
 * 1 tsp ground cardamom
 * 7 dl wheat flour
 * 100 g soft margarine

Coating

 * 1 egg

Filling

 * 3 dl double or whipping cream
 * 2 tsp vanilla sugar

Directions

 * 1) Mix yeast with flour.
 * 2) Add egg, sugar, salt and cardamom to the milk, mix it continuously for 3–4 minutes and then gradually add flour.
 * 3) Then mix with hand.
 * 4) Add soft margarine at the final phase of kneading.
 * 5) Knead the dough by hand or machine until it is smooth and does not stick to your hands or the bowl.
 * 6) Leave to rise in a warm place under a cloth, until it has doubled in size.
 * 7) Mould small buns from the dough, place them on greaseproof paper on a baking sheet, and leave them to rise again under the cloth.
 * 8) Prepare oven to 225 °C, brush the buns with beaten egg and bake these buns for 10 minutes in the oven.

Serving

 * 1) Allow to cool.
 * 2) Cut off the top of the buns, pile whipped cream mixed with vanilla sugar on the lower halves, and replace the top portions.