Help making Danish Pastries

Le_Foot

Hi, everyone,

Can anyone please offer advice/recipe for making Danish Pastries. I would like to do the ones that are like a cathryn wheel, with a stick cinnamon topping, and drizzled with icing. I'm sure I should be able to make them cheaper than shop bought. I can imagine that they will be fiddly and time consuming, but I'm off work at the minute, recovering from an operation, so I have got the time to experiment.
Thanks in anticipation of your replies.;)

Pink.

Hi Le foot,

I don't know if it's what you are looking for as it's a breadmaker recipe but have a look here

If you want to make them by hand there are lots of links on google.

Pink

mandy_moo_1

oooh thanks pink winged that first one that anne marie posted sounds lovely....just sounds a bit of a mess on tho, with all that folding-in-the-butter. suppose if you have a lot of spare time one morning they'd be nice for a change.
only thing is, i'd have to hide them really well in the freezer, cos all that work, and knowing DD & DS they'd eat them all within half an hour :rolleyes:

celyn90

I cheat with these, but now Delia cheats too I don't care I buy a block of puff pastry and roll it out into a square. Then I melt some butter in a saucepan, brush the pastry with it, sprinkle on a lot of spices and sugar and roll it up loosely. Then I slice the log into rounds and bake them in the oven.... this gives the flaky pastry type ones - noones noticed yet :shhh: You can stick allsorts in the roll - chocolate chips, marizipan, flaked almond for example

I have a wonderful chelsea bun recipe at home somewhere - it's an egg enriched sweet bread dough and you do the same thing, then let the round rise a bit and bake them. Then drench the whole lot in butter and sugar syrup just as they come out of the oven.

Ben84

Thank you celyn90, those sound really nice and easy to make. I like pastries, but they're too expensive right now and I've been trying to cut down on packaging waste too.

I'm going to try sultanas and mixed spice :j

amanda40

This is a link to Kethryn ( who regularly subscribes to threads here)'s own web page - she gives a savoury recipe and sweet one - I have not tried it yet ( but would probably eat the whole tray with a bowl of runny icing....) but they look lovely.

http://kethry.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/pesto-pinwheels-and-other-breadystuff/#comment-5737

purpleivy

amanda40 wrote: »

This is a link to Kethryn ( who regularly subscribes to threads here)'s own web page - she gives a savoury recipe and sweet one - I have not tried it yet ( but would probably eat the whole tray with a bowl of runny icing....) but they look lovely.

http://kethry.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/pesto-pinwheels-and-other-breadystuff/#comment-5737

That is in fact the pesto pinwheels recipe from the Panasonic breadmaker recipe book, Good for when you have the end of a jar of pesto lurking! thanks for the reminder.

calleyw

I am big cheater. I buy danish pastry when they are reduced to clear so I only pay 10 or 15p per packet.

As I am far to lazy to cook them myself. I pop them in the freezer and take them out for a treat.

All the best hope they they taste nice.


Yours


Calley