Raisin Danish Pastries: the easy recipe for delicious brioches with custard and raisins

Raisin Danish pastries are soft brioches filled with custard and raisins. Well known and widespread on bar counters for breakfast, they can be made at home without too much difficulty.

Their leavened dough and their shape are reminiscent of the preparation of cinnamon rolls, but they differ from these in the filling. Flavorful and fluffy, you can serve these Danish pastries in the morning together with a good cup of coffee, but also for a snack with tea. It is a great recipe that both children and adults love.

Tips

If you don't like raisins, you can replace it with chocolate chips, as long as you use them very cold.

For an even more delicious version you can prepare them with chocolate flavored custard.

We have used a type of dry yeast that must be mixed with the flour, without first being activated in water. For a good result, we suggest you read the instructions and check the way to use your yeast on the package.

How to store Raisin Danish Pastries

You can store the Danish rolls in the refrigerator, in a special airtight container, for at least a couple of days; at the moment of consumption, heat them for a few minutes in the oven; they will seem as if they were just made.

How to make Raisin Danish Pastries

Collect the flour in a bowl and mix it with the dry yeast 1. Then add the sugar.

Also add the grated lemon zest, egg and milk slowly 2.

Finally add the soft butter into cubes and mix 3.

Transfer the mixture to a work surface 4 and knead until the butter is completely absorbed and the mixture appears smooth and elastic.

Shape it into a ball, place it in a bowl, cover it with plastic wrap 5 and let it rise in a sheltered place for about an hour and a half.

Meanwhile, collect the raisins in a bowl and leave them to soak in water at room temperature 6.

Prepare the custard cream; collect the whole egg and the yolk in a saucepan together with the corn starch and sugar 7, then mix with a whisk.

Heat the milk with the lemon zest, then pour it boiling over the eggs with the corn starch and mix with a whisk. Put on the heat and cook until thickened, then transfer it to a baking dish to let it cool 8.

Take the leavened dough and with a rolling pin roll it out on a floured work surface trying to get a rectangle. Then stuff it with the custard cream at room temperature 9.

Squeeze the raisins, pat them with absorbent paper and distribute them on the cream layer. Then, starting from the long side of the rectangle of dough, form a very tight roll 10.

Using a well-sharpened knife, cut the roll into about 3 cm thick rolls 11 and place them gradually, spaced apart, in a baking tray lined with parchment paper.

Let them rise for 30 minutes in a sheltered place 12, then brush them with an egg yolk, beaten with a drop of milk, and bake in a preheated static oven at 350° F for about 25 minutes.

Mix 3 tablespoons of powdered sugar with 2 tablespoons of water, take the brioches out of the oven and brush them with the syrup 13. Then bake again for 5 minutes.

Remove from the oven again, let the rolls cool and sprinkle them with powdered sugar. Serve 14.